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t. e. Traditional African medicine is a range of traditional medicine disciplines involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically including diviners, midwives, and herbalists. Practitioners of traditional African medicine claim, largely without evidence, to be able to cure a variety of diverse conditions including cancer ...
1998 (aged 89–90) Nationality. Ghanaian. Alma mater. University and Royal College of Edinburgh. Occupation (s) Sculptor and doctor. Oku Ampofo (4 November 1908 – 1998) was a Ghanaian sculptor and medical doctor. He became the first Ghanaian to receive a government scholarship to study medicine.
Marian Ewurama Addy FGA OV (née Cole; 7 February 1942 – 14 January 2014) was a Ghanaian biochemist [1] [2] [3] and the first Host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. [4] [5] [6] The first Ghanaian woman to attain the rank of full professor of natural science, Addy became a role model for school girls and budding female scientists on the limitless opportunities in science, technology ...
t. e. Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the ...
Herbs were also commonly used in the traditional medicine of ancient India, where the principal treatment for diseases was diet. [13] De Materia Medica, originally written in Greek by Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40 – c. 90 CE) of Anazarbus, Cilicia, a physician and botanist, is one example of herbal writing used over centuries until the 1600s. [14]
The history of herbalism is closely tied with the history of medicine from prehistoric times up until the development of the germ theory of disease in the 19th century. Modern medicine from the 19th century to today has been based on evidence gathered using the scientific method. Evidence-based use of pharmaceutical drugs, often derived from ...
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...
The Centre for Plant Medicine Research, formerly the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, [1] is an institution for research into herbal medicine in Mampong Akuapem, in the Eastern Region of southern Ghana. It was set up by the government of Ghana in 1976. [2]: 84 It produces its own herbal medicines and runs an out-patient ...