Old school chia medicine

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Fun Fact! Native Americans would make a hot poultice of ground chia to apply to infected areas of the body inside of a cloth or bandage. The Europeans eventually adopted this method, and early California mission fathers claimed that chia made the finest poultice for gunshot wounds.

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Native Americans would make a hot poultice of ground chia to apply to infected areas of the body inside of a cloth or bandage. The Europeans eventually adopted this method, and early California mission fathers claimed that chia made the finest poultice for gunshot wounds.

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