nurrkku

Ngurrku can be used as a herb, a bush medicine or protective covering. The bark is used to treat sores and blind boils. You get the bark and boil it. It makes the water go red, but if you leave it for a couple of hours it goes purplish black and the medicine is stronger. You put it in the bathtub with hot water, and soak the child or adult. They should sit in the bath for a long time. You can also boil the him, likkarr, and use it for sores. You can use the leaves as a herb for cooking in a ground oven. When cookng bush turkey or porcupine, collect snappy gum leaves and put them into the hole over the hot coals. Straight away put the kuyu (meat) in and cover it quickly before the smell of herbs comes out. Ngurrku leaves and oher eucalypt leaves are also used to cover water in a water carrier, to stop it from splashing, or to rest cooked or uncooked meat on, to keep it off the ground.