My Grandmother's Legacy
My exposure to healing came early in my youth. My grandmother would teach me all about healing as we would work in the garden and tell me her life stories. I sat at her feet many a day to hear her beautiful stories, a life full of victories and healing mysteries.
She was a midwife in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was known far and wide, the only medical care for miles. Most of her clients were the local farmers. They would come to her home for her healing salves and liniments.
She created these liniments by the liter and made them for use all year, for arthritis and internal afflictions. I was too young to understand everything she healed with it, but I know that we took it once a year as a tonic, a few drops on a teaspoon of sugar. Then down it with water. We were never sick.
She was so successful that no one in the family got sick or needed the doctor; she knew exactly what to do for them.
My grandma was 97 when she died. I would say her natural healing certainly kept her healthy. She never went to the doctors or hospital, being her healer with the knowledge of the old from Native American and African healing methods she had learned from her family.