From an Elder of the Cherokee nation:

Your medicine that you carry is your life, and your life is represented by all those things that you have said, that have been given to you and that you have given to others. It is all that you are and all you have done. Your medicine that you carry is all the things that you bundled together. These things you hold sacred in the world this is your gift to the world.

Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship  by J. T. Garrett, Michael Tlanusta Garrett