mulurr

Mulurr grows in many places. It's used for smoking babies and sick people. You find yakkula (spinifex resin) on the ground at the roots of the spinifex grass and smash it into smallish pieces. Break off a bunch of mulurr where the young leaves are green and shiny and collect some old dry twigs too. Dig a small deep hole in the ground, about 20 cm wide and about the same deep. You put some dry mulurr twigs and grass on top of them. Then you put in the yakkula and light it on fire in the hole. You put some oil on the baby's body. When the fire has died down a bit, you put the fresh mulurr on the fire and hold the baby over the smoke, moving the baby around. Or else you put a blanket quickly over the hole, and quickly move the blanket so the smoke gets on the baby or sick person. This makes them strong. You can also take the young leaves and boil them up and over. The water changes the red colour. You ue this to wash people who have sores or itching, scabies or impetigo. You can also get white witchetty grubs from the roots.