Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Kawakawa (Piper excelsum): Whatever we need to heal us, we will find growing close by

4^th Global Summit on Herbals and Traditional Medicine

October 03-04, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Russell Smart

Counties Manukau District Health Board, New Zealand

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Med Aromat Plants

Abstract :

Kawawkawa is one of New Zealandâ??s most distinctive native plants lives up to this common dictum as an herbal pharmacopoeia with a wide range of health benefits. The plant is aromatic and is commonly known as the pepper tree. This presentation will depict the use of kawakawa in traditional and modern herbal medicine. It will explore the biochemical nature of the known pharmacologically active compounds to help explain the wide ranging medicinal uses of this small evergreen shrub-like tree with large heart-shaped leaves.

Biography :

Russell Smart has completed his Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand, College of General Practitioners. He currently works at Middlemore Hospital and has an interest in traditional Maori medicine Rongoā; medicinal use of plants.

E-mail: Russell.Smart@middlemore.co.nz