T-Shaped Learning: Rongoa - Maori Medicine
Make a copy of this Doc and place it in your Reading Folder.
- Call it __(deenys)__ T Shaped Learning - Rongoa
Share it with your partner if you are working with one.
Link to our hand in sheet.
Read one article each day and write notes using the focus questions down the side.
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What is rongoa
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It is a type of medicine
Traditional Maori medicine.
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Rongoa is a traditional
Māori medicine. It
includes herbs,plants
they say it's like
a massage or
spiritual healing
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Rongoa is a herb
Or plant that the Māori
use to
heal wounds,cuts
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A Māori tradition that helps
heal people.
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History of rongoa
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It was a sacred skill,
passed down from
a tohunga pu (expert)
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Māori were ravaged by
the arrival of European
diseases like measles
and influenza.
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Unlike pakeha the
Māori went to
the rongoa native
/natural healing
plant. As they may
call it a traditional
maori healing plant.
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When banned from
practicing rongoa
- they practiced in secret.
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How is rongoa used
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Through karakia/chants
Using herbs or native plants
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Today there is a
resurgence
of interest and
awareness in rongoa.
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New zealand native
herbs have been valued
by both maori and by
early european settlers
for their unique healing
properties.
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Using plants to
heal and having
a spiritual knowledge.
Having a good
knowledge of animals,
plants, insects
and nature
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Where do the
ingredients come from
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Nature - native bush
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Herbs and plants
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Nature, knowledge
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passed down through
generations.
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What are common
plants used
and how do they
help?
( select 2-3)
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Manuka - burns, as a
sedative, to heal skin
disease.
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Kumarahou
- to heal coughs.
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European influence
on rongoa.
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They brought diseases
that Maori couldn’t fix
as they didn’t have them,
such as flu, measles and
fevers.
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They brought diseases
that Maori couldn’t fix
- but maori kept trying.
They banned the use of
tohuna and rongoa
because they
thought tohunga had
supernatural powers.
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Using rongoa in the
modern world
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Science has proved that these
plants have the healing
powers that rongoa suggests.
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Rongoa making a comeback.
Wanting it to be used alongside
european/modern medicine.
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