Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine

Author(s): P. M. E. Williams

Maori

Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings 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 Maoriwas told to the author by Ngapuhi kuia and kaumatua over 40 years ago. Maori in earlier times knew abou the therapeutic benefits derived from trees and plants for a variety of health problems, but had no knowledge of pharmacology. Consequently, Te Rongoa Maorimakes 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 cultureal importance of this heritage.


Product Information

Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. 

General Fields

  • : 9780143011361
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.189
  • : November 2008
  • : 205x180mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : P. M. E. Williams
  • : Paperback
  • : 2
  • : 581.6340993
  • : very good
  • : 80
  • : Colour and BxW illustrations