ABORIGINAL HEALERS, BUSH DOCTORS & WESTERN MEDICINE: Bridging the Divide with Dr.Francesca Panzironi

From Italy to the remote Central Desert in Australia. Thought Leader and International Human Rights academic Dr. Francesca Panzironi created an international platform to document and support the practice of the 60,000 year old Aboriginal traditional healing knowledge system. Traditional Australian Aboriginal healers are working alongside doctors and nurses for the first time in Australia. Dr Panzironi is the founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of ANTAC, Aṉangu Ngangkaṟi Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation. She applied her knowledge and experience, to promote the recognition of the internationally recognised right of Indigenous Peoples to maintain and practice their traditional medicines within Australia' s national health care system. Dr Panzironi traveled across South Australia for over four years (2008-2012) collecting evidence of the current status of Aboriginal Traditional Medicine in community and clinical settings. The findings of her research are published in Hand-in-Hand. Report on Aboriginal Traditional Medicine. This is her story and this is her passion. Who are the Ngangkari? The word ‘Ngangkari’ comes from the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra language groups, but modern use of the term is growing as a description for Indigenous spirit-healers in general across Australia. Other common names in English for the people within Aboriginal tribal cultures who play the role of healer and carrier of spirit lore are ‘the clever people’, ‘clevers’, or ‘feather foots’. PASSIONATE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT • ANTAC - Aṉangu Ngangkaṟi Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation • Ngangkaṟi healers • Aboriginal Traditional Medicine • Aboriginal Traditional healers • Ngangkari - three main techniques: a smoking ceremony, bush medicines or spirit realignment. • Healers consider the spirit as a "core component" of a person's body and help clients reconnect to culture, the "lifeblood of their spiritual being" • Bush Medicine – are native plants/bush tucker also used in the healing • Ngangkaṟi Services -health care, educational and cultural interventions • Rights of Indigenous Peoples to maintain and practice their traditional medicines within Australia' s national health care system. • Combination of Western medicine with Aboriginal Traditional Medicine - two-way health care model • How ANTAC fills in the gaps in Western Medicine • Complementary alternative medicine • Key issues, challenges and benefits of current ad hoc arrangements for the provision of ngangkari services across south Australia • Results of the healings SPREAD THE PASSION HOST: Luisa WEBSITE https://passionharvest.com/ YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXS4cp84D4xDCtF-vZR7KBg?view_as=subscriber INSTAGRAM- @passionharvest https://www.instagram.com/PassionHarvest/ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/Passionharvest WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/0OvXQZlbIGE LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW IN I TUNES http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1451566598 CONNECT WITH DR. FRANCESCA PANZIRONI WEBSITE https://www.antac.org.au/ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/antac.ngangkari/ Tag a friend who might like this episode If you want the episodes delivered to your inbox each week, please DM me with your email x ADDITIONAL LINKS https://www.oric.gov.au/publications/spotlight/healing-hands https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/10/02/traditional-aboriginal-healers-push-be-part-mainstream-healthcare https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/aboriginal-healers-complementary-medicine-finds-its-place/9586972 https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/aboriginal-healers-rise-thanks-to-indigenous-organisation-and-italian-researcher