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Bahamian Bush Medicine

Explore the difference between bush medicine, bush tea, and tea plants while learning how Bahamians traditionally used plants to treat common illnesses. This sign highlights major healing categories and familiar medicinal species found across the islands.

Bahamian Bush Medicine
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Making Bahamian Bush Medicine

Walk through the garden with Ms. Judy Rigby as she gathers fresh medicinal plants and prepares a traditional bush tea — a simple practice rooted in heritage, wellness, and everyday care.

Long Island Cootine

Shepherd Needle

 Bidens alba

Bahama Buttercup 

Turnera ulmifolia

Orchid Seeds

Five Finger 

Tabebuia bahamensis

Fever Grass

   Cymbopogon flexuosus

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