Here then, using laboratory extraction by hydrodistillation, we focus on presenting the character of the volatiles that would be released during warming of leaves or fruit from Pittosporum angustifolium, occurring during traditional use to induce lactation in mothers of newborns. It is likely that these same volatile oils, together with others not represented in the hydrodistillate,are present in other extracts particularly ones prepared as a poultice or as an infusion into animal fat,or both.In the traditional use
context, antibacterial activity of essential oils and solvent extracts may complement antiviral activity already observed in the laboratory of Semple etal.(1998). We suggest that to complement antiviral activity solvent extracts would demonstrate in hibition of secondary bacterial infections of the bronchial tract (Eccles andWeber,2009). We also hypothesise that antibacterial activity of the solvent and essential oil extracts presented in this paper, are consistent with the treatment of a wider range of skin ailments by Aboriginal people than those previously described by European–Australian in translated Aboriginal pharmacopoeia. This may clarify ambiguous references to the‘ medicinal wash’ prepared by unspecified tribes outside the region of the Pitjant jatjara tribe(Latz, 2004)