Background: Bapedi traditional healers play a vital role in the primary health care of rural inhabitants in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. However, literature profiling their social and demographic variables, as well as their traditional healing practices is lacking.
Given the increased use of traditional medicines, possibilities that would ensure its successful integration into a public health framework should be explored. This paper discusses some of the links between biodiversity and traditional medicine, and addresses their implications to public health.
Katima Mulilo has the highest burden of HIV/AIDS in Namibia. Due to several constraints of the antiretroviral therapy programme, HIV-infected persons still use ethnomedicines to manage AIDS-related opportunistic infections.
BioMed Central Page 1 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Research Open Access Ethnopharmacological survey of Samburu district, Kenya Mark O Nanyingi*1, James M Mbaria1, Adamson L Lanyasunya2, Cyrus G Wagate1, Kipsengeret B Koros1,3, Humphrey F Kaburia1, Rahab W Munenge1 and William O Ogara1 Address: 1Department of Public health Pharmacology a
BioMed Central Page 1 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Research Open Access Ethnopharmacological survey of Samburu district, Kenya Mark O Nanyingi*1, James M Mbaria1, Adamson L Lanyasunya2, Cyrus G Wagate1, Kipsengeret B Koros1,3, Humphrey F Kaburia1, Rahab W Munenge1 and William O Ogara1 Address: 1Department of Public health Pharmacology a
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that as many as 80% of the world's more than six billion people rely primarily on animal and plant-based medicines. The healing of human ailments by using therapeutics based on medicines obtained from animals or ultimately derived from them is known as zootherapy.
Collaboration between traditional healers and biomedical practitioners is now being accepted by many African countries south of the Sahara because of the increasing problem of HIV/AIDS. The key problem, however, is how to initiate collaboration between two health systems which differ in theory of disease causation and management.
Background: An ethnobotanical survey was carried out to collect information on the use of medicinal plants in Southern Western Ghats of India (Madurai district, Tamil Nadu). Information presented in this paper was gathered from the paliyar tribes using an integrated approach of botanical collections, group discussions and interviews with questionnaires in the years 1998 – 1999.