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.

Ngangkari healers were considered the treasure of Aboriginal communities, and now their 60,000-year-old tradition has made its way to South Australia's Royal Adelaide Hospital and rural clinics.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nearly 40 cadets in, NT Health’s Aboriginal Cadetship Program has quietly built one of the Territory’s most impactful health ...

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 ...

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