Iwana Antjiakitja from Kaltjti (Fregon community) in APY Lands(Anangu Ngangkari Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation) Aboriginal health may be high on the policy agenda, but traditional Aboriginal healers ...

Aboriginal Australians have used native plants as bush medicine for tens of thousands of years. On Larrakia land, medical students are learning how nature can heal.

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.

For centuries, people all over the world have been using medical plants to fight infections, boost wound healing, and for religious ceremonies. And for centuries, scientists have been trying to ...

Over countless millennia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have harnessed the tremendous potential of plants, ingeniously using them for medicines, nutrition, to express our culture and ...

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, ...

In 14 words, the decision of a Brantford judge changed the life of an 11-year-old Six Nations girl with leukemia, and sparked a controversy about Aboriginal rights and the rights of children in Canada ...

The case of an 11-year-old aboriginal girl with leukemia whose family wanted to treat her only with traditional medicine is the “perfect” type for a court procedure that could establish a firm ...

For 60,000 years, traditional Aboriginal healers or ngankari (pronounced as nun-ka-ri) have treated patients using a set of ancient medical knowledge system passed down from generations. Today, the ...

BRANTFORD, Ont. - An 11-year-old First Nations girl whose decision to refuse chemotherapy in favour of traditional aboriginal medicine caused an uproar last year is now receiving both treatments as ...