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Because this form of medicine is "the most affordable and accessible system of health care for the majority of the African rural population," the African Union declared 2001 to 2010 to be the Decade for African Traditional Medicine with the goal of making "safe, efficacious, quality, and affordable traditional medicines available to the vast ...
In ayurveda texts, dosha balance is emphasized, and suppressing natural urges is considered unhealthy and claimed to lead to illness. [20] Ayurveda treatises describe three elemental doshas: vāta, pitta and kapha, and state that balance (Skt. sāmyatva) of the doshas results in health, while imbalance (viṣamatva) results in disease. Ayurveda ...
Dosha (Sanskrit: दोषः, IAST: doṣa) is a central term in ayurveda originating from Sanskrit, and which refers to three categories or types of substances that are believed to be present conceptually in a person's body and mind. These Dosha are assigned specific qualities and functions.
Ayurveda or ayurvedic medicine has more than 5,000 years of history, now re-emerging as texts become increasingly accessible in modern English translations. These texts attempt to translate the Sanskrit versions that have remained hidden in India since British occupation from 1755 to 1947.
The plant is used by both primates and indigenous peoples in Africa to treat intestinal ailments such as dysentery. [172] [173] Veronica officinalis: Veronica The plant is used for sinus and ear infections. [174] Viburnum tinus: Laurustinus V. tinus has medicinal properties.
Ethnomedicine is a study or comparison of the traditional medicine based on bioactive compounds in plants and animals and practiced by various ethnic groups, especially those with little access to western medicines, e.g., indigenous peoples.
In Southern Africa, muti and other cognates of umuthi are in widespread use in most indigenous African languages as well as in South African English and Afrikaans, which sometimes use muti as a slang word for medicine in general. [1] This noun is of the umu/imi class so the singular ('tree') is umuthi and the plural ('trees') is imithi.
Ayurveda was one kind of nattuvaidyam practised in south India. [40] The others were kalarichikitsa (related to bone setting and musculature), [ 41 ] marmachikitsa (vital spot massaging), ottamoolivaidyam (single dose medicine or single time medication), [ 42 ] chintamanivaidyam and so on.