| doctor, sucking doctor Sucking doctors would suck until they drew blood from the location of the pain/ailment. They mostly used angelica root as medicine. Only medicine men and dreamers would pound and smoke the root, it was the only herb that they used that made them dreamy at all, or they’d chew it and rub it on the sick person. Women were mostly sucking doctors. The word matu: covers all kinds of doctoring. This ability was something that was given to them by ko:t̪u | |
| strange see also: odd | |