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Kōrero: Hops, tobacco and hemp

Mother Aubert’s remedies

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Mother Aubert’s remedies

While living at Jerusalem up the Whanganui River in the 1890s, Catholic nun Suzanne Aubert became interested in Māori medicinal uses of native plants. Some of her own plant-based remedies contained hemp.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-PANTOMIME-1894-01-opp5

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jim McAloon, Hops, tobacco and hemp – Hemp, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/17041/mother-auberts-remedies (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jim McAloon, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.