I don't have the problem any more - it's gone. The basic medicine is homeopathically prepared. Using very small doses over long periods of time, the different Indian criteria used to diagnose which traditional herbs to use has been incorporated into Mestroni's lifestyle, producing a healing effect. Every time Mestroni visits Osawamick on Manitoulin Island, he helps the 96 year-old elder collect herbs. Intricately carved on moose antlers or stone, these chiselled dramas represent mythological ideas and histories held sacred by the Ojibway tribes.
Snakes represent the healing qualities of each race.
The air is represented by the wind spirits, then there is the plant world and the animal world. So you have the elements coinciding with the four races. Often, if a person is aware that they are part of everything, that everything is a part of them, says Mestroni, they can re-balance themselves. In that way carvings can be used as healing tools. Of course, there is more to it.