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New Zealand Flax

The value placed on the flax by the old-time maori can perhaps be assessed by the astonishment expressed by some chiefs in the early days of contact when apprised of the fact that the plant did not then grow in england. They asked "how is it possible to live there without it?".
All parts of the plant have been traditionally used. Growing flax for rope making was a huge industry before synthetic rope was developed. Medicine, basketry, clothing, lining of houses, binding of wounds, tying off the umbilical cord, splints, thread.are just a few of the many uses.
Different varieties of flax, have different uses and qualities. Some are softer and used for making fine cloaks or the fine fibre (muka) was used as a sponge for cleaning wounds.
Traditionally the flax root and leaf were used by the maori to treat internally and externally a myriad of ailments. It has so many applications; cutaneous diseases such as ringworm and venereal disease, boils, gangrene,scrofula, tumours, abscesses, varicose ulcers, amputations, bruises, bleeding, burns, toothache, worms, indigestion.
The root and rhizome were used to treat measles, small-pox and other eruptions, severe bayonet and gunshot wounds. In the small-pox epidemic of 1862 the native doctors used a "new" treatment which was said to be very successful. They boiled the root of the flax and then smeared it on as an ointment.


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