They have developed an intimate and profound relationship with the environment, and their use of native plants in food and medicine is largely determined by the environment they lived in. Over 1511 plant species have been recorded as having been used medicinally in Australia. Most of these ...
For example, the condition we recognize as depression was also known traditionally among one particular Aboriginal group who used a plant medicine for its treatment. This condition was known in the local dialect as akwuwerrik barrnga, which translates literally as ‘heavy emotions’, and the ...
• Indigenous Australians knew which foods were important for providing energy, as well as plants that could be used as medicine. This information was passed down from generation to generation. • The traditional Aboriginal diet included; native meats such as kangaroo, emu, possum and goannas ...
This is a modern style of painting popularized by Australian Aboriginal artistGloria Petyarre, whose most recent paintings depict Bush Medicine Dreaming, a style in which artists pay homage to the bush medicine plant. This plant’s powerful leaves are collected by women and used for restorative, ...
Men used spears, harpoons, nets, traps, clubs, and even boomerangs for hunting wild creatures. Women tended to be responsible for the gathering of plants, shellfish, and insects. These gender roles continue today in traditional Aboriginal families. Even when plants are plentiful, the ...
Cultures vary in the ways disabilities are explained. The Navajo people are instructed to live harmoniously with Mother Earth and Father Sky, as well as to demonstrate respect for the circle of life, which includes the environment, animals, plants, and humankind. They believe that violations ...
International studies exploring the coping strategies used by food insecure households have shown families increase their consumption of traditional foods (defined here as wild caught/hunted or harvested plants and animals) and share food between extended family [18]. Given the nutritional density of ty...
While Australian Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders (Indigenous Australians) historically had access to nicotine containing plants growing naturally, heavy use was presumably rare. However the addictive nature of nicotine was readily exploited by Europeans [1], with tobacco being supplied as ...
prospective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. This initiative will also enable Jes and Cheyne to champion the priorities and medicine needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the health sector, including improving the cultural safety, appropriateness, and effectiveness of ...
, a health podcast for Indigenous peoples by Indigenous peoples, host Dr Mikayla Couch shares an Indigenous perspective on plant-based medicine, as she chats with Bundjalung man and Gardening Australia presenter Uncle Clarence Slockee about the medicinal and health benefits of Indigenous plants....