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Kōrero: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants

Whārangi 7. Hononga, rauemi nō waho

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

  • Rongoā Māori

    The Ministry of Health website lists government funded Rongoā providers.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

  • Te Rangi Hīroa (Buck, Peter) The coming of the Maori. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: Maori Purposes Fund Board, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1949.
  • Durie, M. H., and others. Traditional Māori healing: a paper prepared for the Core Health Committee. Te Papa-i-ōia: Te kura Māori o te whare wānanga o Massey, 1993.
  • Lange, Raeburn. May the people live: a history of Māori health development 1900–1920. Tāmaki-makau-rau: Auckland University Press, 1999.
  • Lange, Raeburn. ‘The tohunga and the government in the twentieth century.’ In University of Auckland Historical Society Annual, 1968: 12–38.
  • Riley, Murdoch. Māori healing and herbal: New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook. Paraparaumu: Viking Sevenseas, 1994.
  • Tipene-Leach, D. ‘Māori medicines.’ New Zealand Pharmacy 18, no. 8 (Hereturikōkā 1998): 26–28.
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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rhys Jones, Rongoā – medicinal use of plants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/8520/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rhys Jones, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.