Today, South Africa is home to more than 200,000 traditional healers who care for more than 27 million people. This article will primarily focus on the history of traditional medicinal practices in Sout...
Background: The use of traditional medicine (TM) in South Africa is reportedly high. TM use in a South African surgical population presenting for elective surgery is unknown.Aim: The study aim was to survey the perioperative usage of TM in a South African population presenting for elective ...
In South Africa, doctors who use the TCM are registered under the Allied Health Professions Council and can claim medical aid. More and more South Africans are now using traditional Chinese medicine as they have become more aware of it. File photo taken on Aug. 5, 2019 shows Chu Hailin, ...
Traditional healers in southern Africa. One task of medical anthropologists is to search for similarities and differences among cultural conceptions of illness and healing. This search may identi... Hewson,G Mariana - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 109发表: 1998年 AIDS and STDs in Afric...
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has brought more "Chinese solutions" and "Chinese contributions" to medical care in Africa and around the world. CHANGSHA, (Xinhua) -- While awaiting their notice of admission to the graduate study, Rwandan students Fabrice Kayitare and Gracia Uwitonze...
This article employed a qualitative single-case study design to explore the South African population's views and experiences on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This study is of profound significance since there is a lack of research focusing on the African population's views and experiences on...
Men were the predominant traders of traditional medicine in the markets, and 90% of the respondents reported that they derived more than 50% of their households' income from selling medicinal plants. Approximately 123 plant species were recorded during the survey and, based on frequencies, the ...
The article concludes that future geographic research on human health needs to engage with the social and cultural systems that contribute in shaping health perceptions and decision-making in various settings. 展开 关键词: health political ecology sangoma South Africa traditional medicine ...
The African Bantu traditional practice of medicine: some preliminary observations 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 27 作者: WZ Conco 摘要: This paper is a record of experiences in a simple general practice among rural Africans (mainly Zulus) in South Africa where medical communication was in...
medical phenomena, together with the fact that there are hardly any academic papers engaging the science of South African traditional medicine in the biological sciences, is an indication of the disconnection between the humanities studies and the biomedical studies of South African traditional medicine....