Afghan cameleer in Farina, South Australia

Adelaide’s Afghan Cameleer Herbalists’ Power Plants: Their Patients Talk

South Adelaide Afghan cameleers applied ancient knowledge of medicinal plants as herbalists (hakims). Australian patients talk about hakims’ healing. Interact with herbalists’ ingredients from overseas and Adelaide Central Market, Mahomet Allum’s “black jack” and camel milk. What did Aboriginal people teach cameleers about medicinal plants?

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