MEDICINAL: A valuable astringent in diarrhoea

MEDICINAL: Used for bathing after confinement; if haemorrhage, drink some of water. Inhaled and taken internally as an infusion in asthma

MEDICINAL: See Riley 1994 for information on medicinal uses of related plants elsewhere in the world. DYES: Used, like hīnau, as mordant to make black dye. Process described in Best 1899. (See also White, from ms. in Dominion Museum, quoted in Aston 1918a; Colenso 1869a, 1882b ;...

MEDICINAL: ''.. if not near a Suphur Spring, he makes a hot bath of water, adding a decoction of the bark of the Hinau. This is said to cure the severest skin disease'' (O'Carroll 1884) Hinau meal gruel sometimes made for sick folk (Best 1942). Seeds good source of essential fa