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This assignment will explore the use of traditional herbal medicines and other traditional health practices that pose significant health issues for Maori within Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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This assignment will explore the use of traditional herbal medicines and other traditional health practices that pose significant health issues for Maori within Aotearoa/New Zealand. Rongoa, mirimiri and karakia are traditional health practices amongst Maori and have been around for many years. How the health care needs of people wishing to utilise these traditional methods of healing are being accommodated will be looked at. How the three "p's" of the Treaty of Waitangi are being incorporated into the health needs of the Maori will also be investigated. The implications of these findings for myself as a beginning nurse practitioner will then be identified and critiqued. Rongoa Maori is the traditional medicine system of the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, the use of which has long been established (McGown, 1998). It is a storehouse of Maori history and culture and therefore is considered a taonga (treasured possession) (Jones, 2002). With...
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