BUSHBUCKRIDGE, South Africa (AP) — The walls of Shadrack Mashabane’s hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small window the only source of ...
Candles illuminate the small room where Gregorio Vargas lays out on a table the tarot cards, one of his tools to remedy ills and problems or to tie up impossible loves in Diriomo, a town famous for ...
There is the need for orthodox medicine practitioners to borrow a leaf from traditional medicine practitioners. According to the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, who briefed Health Editors in ...
The island of Siquijor in the southern Philippines is famed for its traditional healing practices; less well known is the role its healers play in conserving the island’s forests. Traditional ...
Josephine Mick wrapped her fingers around the wrist of her interpreter, gently demonstrating a traditional ngangkaṟi healing technique to draw out illness. Speaking in fluent Pitjantjatjarra ...
Cheryl Morales started the medicinal garden at the Aaniiih Nakoda College demonstration farm with only four plants: yarrow, echinacea, plantain and licorice root. After 10 years, the campus garden ...
In places like Uganda, mental health issues are often still linked to spirits. — -- Before the sun rises, psychiatric nurse Immaculate Owembabazi makes her way to a small district hospital in the ...
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ZANZIBAR CITY, Tanzania (Reuters) - Zanzibar's traditional healers with their toolkits of herbs, holy scriptures and massages are being registered by authorities keen to regulate the practitioners who ...
TRADITIONAL and alternative medicine practitioners in Kongwa District, Dodoma Region, have been urged to refer patients to hospitals whenever cases exceed their capacity.The call was made by the ...
Renowned traditional healer Sekuru Nyangatayani, also known as Peter Chingudzi, spread festive cheer to disadvantaged members of the Mazowe district by donating Christmas hampers and gifts on ...