Bush medicine will be used in Alice Springs to treat people with chronic kidney disease.

A special garden created by the Alice Springs Desert Park (ASDP) will supply bush medicine to people relocated from remote communities to undergo lifesaving dialysis.

Launched on Friday by ASDP nursery manager Tim Collins, the project will also provide the Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku charity with bush tucker.

Mr Collins said the project sought to promote Indigenous health and culture, and the use of Central Australian plants.

'The ASDP developed a plan to create a bush food and bush medicine garden so that resources are more readily available for the patients and visitors to use,' Mr Collins said.

'As well as having a beautiful garden to improve the aesthetics of the house.'

Kidney disease is one of the biggest killers of Aboriginal people throughout Australia.

Many are forced to leave their traditional lands to seek treatment hundreds of kilometres away in Darwin, or elsewhere.

Charity manager Sarah Brown said the garden had moved the patients to tears.

'When we first walked out into the garden it felt like Backyard Blitz Desert Park style,' she said.

'The transformation was truly amazing and brought tears to our eyes.'

Among the plants used for bush tucker are the bush onion and quandong.

Stemodia viscosa are used as a compress to relieve colds and flu and eremophila freelingii as a skin wash to treat scabies.

Cymbopogon ambiguous is used as a drinking medicine or rubbing medicine for colds and flu.