List of Plants
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| Author List of Plants |
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| Acknowledgements Acknowledgement is made to the personal communications, as well as the following published sources, on which the author relied: Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert's Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1971), as the authority for the Hawaiian names of plants. Marie Catherine Neal's In Gardens of Hawaii. (Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1965), and D.M. Kaaiakamanu and J.K. Akina's Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, (Honolulu, Pacific Book House, 1968), as the authorities from which the text has been compiled.
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Preface This pamphlet is a sampling of some of the native plants which Hawaiians used as medicine. Some have grown here from ancient times, and others have been brought here by more recent immigrants. An explanation is given of what sicknesses the plants were used to treat, and how they were prepared. Many of these plants will be familiar, as they grow in yards and gardens today. Others grow wild along roadsides and in forests. |