Ginger and cinnamon are more than just ingredients. Along with other spices, their medicinal value is gaining both attention ...
The stifling outback heat of the early evening feels just ripe for trouble. It’s Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. It is market night, ...
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Josephine Mick wrapped her fingers around the wrist of her interpreter, gently demonstrating a traditional ngangkaṟi healing technique to draw out illness. Speaking in fluent Pitjantjatjarra ...
Traditional medicine provides health care for more than half the world's population, but no one has really looked at how the environment affects traditional medicine. Studying 12 ethnic groups from ...
An organization of midwives from Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous group use traditional medicinal plants endemic to the region to assist women with pregnancy and childbirth. Known as ASASTRAN, the ...
NHULUNBUY, Australia (Reuters) - As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.