Emu oil is an ancestral food and has long been used as healing agent in Australian traditional cultures for wounds, the relief of symptoms of sunburn, eczema, pruritis, and urticaria. Contemporary uses of emu oil described in over 75 studies on Pub Med at the National Library of Medicine, document its use in cancer treatment (reducing the severity of colitis-associated colorectal cancer, mucositis from chemotherapy, and arthralgia in breast cancer treatment,) in regenerative medicine, and in man