Wild Grape

OHNYǪ́GWIDRAˀ

Wild Grape

Vitis spp.

Family: Vitaceae

Native Vine

For our ancestors, as they got older, they would spend more time indoors and many older people had trouble with their eyesight. My mother, who knows the medicine, would say that the elders who would come to her would have “smokey eyes”. This condition was noticed particularly after elders spent a lot of time in their homes around smokey fires. She would give these patients grapes in an eyewash to relieve their symptoms. Most Gayogohó:nǫˀ medicine is preventative, but this is a treatment for symptoms.