Noongar Bush Medicine provides for the first time a comprehensive information on the the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the south-west of Western Australia before European settlement. The book is a guide to how to use plants for alternative treatments and protection from common ailments.
In this book the authors have recorded information on many of the medicinal plants that were regularly used by the Noongar people of the south-west of Western Australia. They hope it will ensure that the traditional knowledge is not lost forever with the passing of elders and traditional healers.
xvi, 256 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps; 23 cm #220722
Medicinal plants — Western Australia — South-West. | Plants, Useful — Western Australia — South-West. | Materia medica, Vegetable — Western Australia — South-West. | Noongar (Australian people) — Medicine — Western Australia — South-West. | Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50) | Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine. | Plants. | Language – Vocabulary – Plant names. | Indigenous knowledge – Botany. | Australian