Arelhe-Kenhe Merrethene - Arrernte Traditional Healing is a comprehensive overview of the different methods of healing used by the Arrernte people of Central Australia.

Previously titled and promoted as Bush Medicines, the scope of this book has broadened to include other forms of healing and, importantly, the spiritual aspect of Arrernte healing and its integral connection to the land.

The author, Veronica Dobson, is a widely respected elder who is also a noted translator, interpreter and teacher of the Arrernte language. She has drawn on her own cultural knowledge and supplemented it by interviewing other elders and senior healers in the Arrernte community.

The author shares the various medicinal plants and how they are processed into washes and ointments; the use of hot earth and ashes, and the treatments for various conditions such as toothache, snakebite and flu.