Study on Medicinal Plants on Bluff Hill
Tshering with Lokesh and BHMET volunteer Billy the dog.
Tshering and Lokesh measuring transect lines for her vegetation survey.
SIT Environmental Management student, Tshering Doma Bhutia, is doing research for her bachelor’s degree on the medicinal plants founds on Bluff Hill. Estelle and Billy (the dog) Leask were on hand to assist Tshering and her helper, Lokesh. Two examples of medical plants founds on Bluff Hill: (1) the leaf and bark from the Pseudowintera colorata (Horopito), the pepper tree, can be used to heal cuts, wounds and stomach pains and the root can be chewed for dysentery and (2) the bark of the Metrosideros umbellata (Rata), the southern rata, can be made into a poultice to put on sores, wounds and abscesses and when soaked in water, the bark can be applied as a lotion.
Posted on: 5 July 2016
