Te rongoa Maori – Maori medicine

Te rongoa Maori – Maori medicine – P.M.E. Williams

Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, spent his life observing and recording the use of native plants for medicinal purposes by local Maori. Te Rongoa Maori brings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully interspersed with anecdotal evidence and beautifully illustrated with watercolours and engravings.
Much of the information in Te Rongoa Maori was told to the author by Ngapuhi kuia and kaumatua over 40 years ago. Maori in earlier times knew about the therapeutic benefits derived from trees and plants for a variety of health problems, but had no knowledge of pharmacology. Consequently, Te Rongoa Maori makes no claims to being a manual of Maori medicine. However, it comprises an important and faithful record of information gleaned over a lifetime’s close association with the Ngapuhi people, and of the cultural importance of this heritage.

Format: This book is a Paper back.

Language: This book is written in English.

Published: November 2008.