Author : Hans Dieter Neuwinger
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Africa--Dictionaries
ISBN :
This book documents the traditional knowledge and use of African medicinal plants. In total more than 5,400 plants from south of the Sahara to the Cape are listed and over 16,300 medicinal applications with plant part, details on method of preparation and dosage.
Author : Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004436421
In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.
Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1466571985
With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural
Author : Isaac Sindiga
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa's population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine, which has always been practised in the indigenous cultures, is fast filling this therapeutic gap. This book is a collection of essays based on a multidisciplinary approach to traditional medicine in Africa. It has contributions from social scientists, natural resource experts, traditional medical practitioners, educationists, and medical scholars. It attempts to define the problems of traditional medicine in Africa, while also discussing the conceptual foundations of African ethnomedicine and medical pluralism.
Author : C. A. Dime
Publisher : EDO State University
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Victor Kuete
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0128004754
Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants provides a detailed overview of toxicological studies relating to traditionally used medicinal plants in Africa, with special emphasis on the methodologies and tools used for data collection and interpretation. The book considers the physical parameters of these plants and their effect upon various areas of the body and human health, including chapters dedicated to genotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and specific organs and systems.Following this discussion of the effects of medicinal plants is a critical review of the guidelines and methods in use for toxicological research as well as the state of toxicology studies in Africa. With up-to-date research provided by a team of experts, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants is an invaluable resource for researchers and students involved in pharmacology, toxicology, phytochemistry, medicine, pharmacognosy, and pharmaceutical biology. Offers a critical review of the methods used in toxicological survey of medicinal plants Provides up-to-date toxicological data on African medicinal plants and families Serves as a resource tool for students and scientists in the various areas of toxicology
Author : Cengiz Mordeniz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1789841836
Modern medicine has reached a point where the patient is not treated as a biopsychosocial-spiritual being but rather is seen as a virtual identity consisting of laboratory findings and images. More focus is placed on relieving the symptoms instead of curing the disease. Mostly, patients are turned into lifetime medication-dependent individuals. New medicines are needed to overcome the side effects, complications, resistance, and intolerance caused by pharmacological and interventional therapies. In hopes of drug-free and painless alternative treatments with fewer complications, there has been a trend to revisit traditional methods that have been dismissed by modern medicine. Traditional medicine has to be reevaluated with modern scientific methods to complement and integrate with evidence-based modern medicine.
Author : Abayomi Sofowora
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : 9789780298814
Author : Karen Elizabeth Flint
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0821418491
Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.
Author : Murray Last
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429816111
Originally published in 1986, this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine, and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared.
