This page lists a selection of resources relating to Rongoā Māori, its healing properties, traditional uses, treatment and herbal remedies to illnesses and the importance of the Tohunga.

Manukau Libraries has a Māori collection in each of its libraries, with the most extensive collection held at the South Auckland Research Centre.

All resources are available from Manukau Libraries.

Resources

• Hiroa, T.R. The coming of the Māori (993.01 z BUC)
• Riley, M. Māori healing and herbal: New Zealand ethnobotanical sourcebook (581.634 z RIL)
• Goldie, W.H. Māori medical lore: notes on the causes of disease and treatment of the sick among the Māori people of New Zealand, as believed and practised in former times, together with some account of various ancient rites connected with the same (581.634 z GOL)
• Māori medicine [videocassette] (V591.632 z MAO)
• Bell, S. Māori traditional use of the forest = Ko te tikanga manaaki a te Māori i te ngahere (J577.3 z BEL)
• Gluckman, L.K. Medical history of New Zealand prior to 1860 (610.993 z GLU)
• Macdonald, C. Medicines of the Māori: from their trees, shrubs, and other plants, together with foods from the same sources (581.634 z MAC)
• Harris, W. Ngā mahi Māori o te wao nui a Tane: contributions to an international workshop on ethnobotany, Te Rehua Marae, Christchurch, New Zealand, 22-26 February 1988 (581.6 z INT)
• Ngarara/Pipi [videocassette] (V305.8994 z NGA)
• Drewery M. Ngā rongoā a Koro (NZ J 499.442 DRE)
• Ngā rongoā a te Māori = Medicine of the Māori [poster]
• Paul, T. Ngā taonga o te ngahere = Treasures of the forest (J581.634 z PAU)
• Ngā tikanga pono wahanga hauora = Health sector ethics: mechanisms for Māori into ethical review: a discussion document (174.209931 z TIK)
• Grace, D. He rakau rangatira (J499 z GRA)
• Williams, P.M.E. Te rongoā Māori = Māori medicine. (581.634 z WIL)
  

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