Sowaibah Hanifie // Ngangkari healers: 60,000 years of traditional Aboriginal methods make headway in medical clinics - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

31.3.18

Ngangkari healers: 60,000 years of traditional Aboriginal methods make headway in medical clinics - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): While she was a university lecturer, Ms Panzironi identified a gap in literature on Australian Aboriginal healing.

She said the most comparable form of alternative medicine to Ngangkari healing was reiki, a Japanese technique for stress reduction.

Depending on a client's problems, Ngangkari healers offer three main techniques — a smoking ceremony, bush medicines or spirit realignment.

"The healer identifies where the issues are and, through a specific method of healing, which is called panpooni, they take away whether it's pain, a blockage, or some kind of obstruction, with their hands," Ms Panzironi said.

"The most unique method of healing they use is the realignment of the human spirit.

"They see the spirit as the core component of the human body.