Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Anaphalis keriensis, Gnaphalium keriense

puatea

pukatea weed ? ( Bretts Guide 1883)., cudweed

O'Carroll 1884 mentions `puapuatea - a weed". Possibly this plant. Puatea also refers to Craspedia uniflora (Williams 1971). Pukatea weed could also be Epilobium cinereum or Gnaphalium luteo-album.

For bruises - leaves pressed for juice, applied "after scarifying to the seat of pain" ( O'Carroll 1884).

Related pharmacology in Brooker, Cambie and Cooper, 1987.

See Riley 1994 for information on medicinal uses of related plants elsewhere in the world.