“My design is green ants. Yanggarr in my language. This is one of the best medicines for colds and flus.
To make the medicine – we get the ants, put them in a bowl, and make sure none of the ants crawl away. Before Christmas is the best time to get it, because that’s when they lay the eggs. But you can get it at any time of the year. You just squash all the ants together, and rub it all over yourself: on your chest, under your nose. It’s just like Vicks. It’s got that very acidy smell.
When we were growing up in mission days we used to go out with a bowl, get the ants, cut up onion, make some damper – eat it that way. We didn’t have much to eat those mission days.
