The Choctaw Medicine Man, or Alikchi,  knew much about the use of herbs, roots and other mixtures to heal the sick.  The Choctaw, like the Creeks,  were also well aware that certain animals were carriers of diseases, so they would trap the animal and feed it for a few days until it had passed whatever toxic or potentially diseased food it had consumed prior to being caught.

Before the Choctaw Nation was relocated to Oklahoma, Missionaries taught the Choctaw the ways of the white man; a development which ultimately resulted in the ways of Choctaw Medicine being forgotten.

With these so-called developments, and the eventual relocation of the Choctaw, several were lost to disease and those who knew the old ways of Choctaw healing were few and far between. 

More information can be found at:

http://www.isd.net/mboucher/choctaw/clife.htm
http://genweb.net/Oxford/chocmed.htm

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