Author: Vivienne Hansen
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
ISBN: 9781742589060
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Vivienne Hansen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760800420
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Before the colonisation of Australia, Aboriginal Australians lived on a wonderful larder of fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat, in a land largely free from disease, with more exercise, less stress and supportive communities. Today, in Aboriginal communities all over Australia, there are higher instances of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, some types of cancer and lung diseases than in the general population. This book is an attempt to preserve bush tucker knowledge for future generations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to ensure the information is not lost with the passing of Elders. The authors describe over 260 species of the edible plants and fungi that were regularly gathered by the Noongars of the Bibbulmun Nation of the south-west of Western Australia before and after colonisation. Many of these plants and fungi are difficult to find today because of land clearing for crops and the farming of sheep and cattle.
Author: Erich V. Lassak
Publisher: Reed New Holland
ISBN: 9781877069864
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An essential guide and invaluable resource for anyone interested in herbal medicine, Australian flora and the indigenous Australian culture. Includes a history on the Aboriginal use of native plants and explains how the first European settlers learnt of their medicinal value from the Indigenous people.
Author: SJ Jarman
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102701
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Mosses and liverworts inhabit a miniature world hidden in our rainforests and often go unnoticed. This book seeks to raise the reader's awareness of these plants and reveals their beauty in the book's many high quality colour photographs. A comprehensive introduction is provided along with specific notes on these plants.
Author: H. Lambers
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742585642
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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"A thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's Kwongan--Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984)"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Francisco J. Neira
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781876268176
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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In Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes the larval stages of 124 fish species from 57 families which occur in fresh water, estuarine and inshore marine waters of temperate Australia are described. Each family chapter includes a summary of the taxonomy and life history information for the family, a list of the main characters used to identify larvae to family level, a table of the meristic characters of the genera found in temperate Australian waters, and a list of families whose larvae may be confused with those of the family being described, and the characters which will distinguish them. For each species there is information on adult distribution, importance to fisheries, spawning, diagnostic characters of larvae, and larval morphology and pigmentation. With over 570 scientific illustrations of larval fishes throughout, and a concise and accurate text, this is an essential reference for anyone, conducting taxonomic, ecological and fisheries research.
Author: Brian Bush
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781920694746
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This guide answers often-asked questions such as: What does a frog dropping or lizard burrow look like? How do you read a snake track? What do you do when you find a snake in your garden? What is the correct way of handling a frog or photographing a reptile? It contains species, scientific and common names, and much more.
Author: Anne Brearley
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1920694382
Category : Estuarine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Synthesis of the results of may years of research on Estuarine environments form the Murchison to Esperance, Western Australia.
Author: Eleanor Tan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957745452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The ideal guide for herbal medicine practitioners, students and others interested in making their own medicines. This text provides clear instructions for making herbal medicines in the home or clinic as well as detailed information about industrial manufacturing processes. Recipes and instructions are provided for making everything from simple herbal teas to more complex preparations such as tablets, syrups, lotions, creams, pessaries, poultices and compresses. How to make alcohol-based fluid extracts that are commonly used by herbalists is also covered in detail.
Author: Lily Alice
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741175400
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Australia's unique native ingredients boast nutritional and medicinal benefits that cannot be found anywhere else. From the Kakadu plum with its unmatched vitamin C content, to Bunya nuts that contain natural antibacterial properties, knowledge of these superfoods has been passed down in Aboriginal cultures for thousands of years. This cookbook features Australia’s most interesting and beneficial bush superfoods, with beautiful illustrations and information on where they grow, traditional Indigenous uses, nutritional benefits, and advice on how to use them in your home kitchen. You can then follow an easy plant-based recipe, such as Sweet Potato Toast with Finger Lime Guacamole, or Spiced Apple and Riberry Chia Pudding, to enjoy the health benefits yourself! No matter whether you live in the city or the outback, you too can discover the foods that nourished the first peoples of this land.
