Traditional African medicine
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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 to be able to cure a variety of diverse conditions including cancer, psychiatric disorders, high blood pressure, cholera, most venereal diseases, epilepsy, asthma, eczema, fever, anxiety, depression, benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary tract infections, gout, and healing of wounds and burns and even Ebola.
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See also
- Infant oral mutilation
- Pharmacognosy
- San healing practices
- Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together against AIDS
- Traditional Hausa medicine
- Yorùbá medicine
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