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The case of Ubulawu.

South African Indigenous Healing Terms/Info.

Activating the ancestral-spirits.

Defining 'Indigenous Peoples'

Gateway into the Other World.

An interview and commentary : the life story of diviner Jack S'kheke Nyawuza.

Cloth-wraps; some meanings in diviners dress.

Basics of Zulu cosmology and ancestral spirits.

Christian antipathy towards indigenous diviners.

The Pope's Apology to Africans.

Revoke the 1493 Papal Bull Now!

Beadwork and honouring the ancestors.

Ancestor veneration in Africa.

Depicting the ancestors and their servants, the diviners.

Expressing the ancestors.

Doctors, prophets, and witches in Africa

Decorated Medicine Vessels of Tsonga and Shona Diviners.

Psychoactive Plants Traditionally Used in Madagascar.

Initiation of a Pondo Diviner (Igqira).

An African Kykeon?

Rituals of the Anthills : Issues, Challenges and Prospects.

Venda Divining Bowl.

Shona and Venda Divining Dice.

What is Intelezi?

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Africa looking to raise standards for herbals.

Botanicals Move Out Of Africa.

Food makers developing taste for African plants.

Out of Africa : Novel botanicals enter market.

Indigenous Medicine (Muthi) Trade.

The Mai-Mai Herbal Market.

African plants reveal potent healing activity.

Europe funds major research on African plants.

Regulating Traditional Healers

An Africa-wide overview of medicinal plant harvesting, conservation and health care.

Balancing traditional medicine's demands and conservation

Cultivating Medicinal Plants for Human Needs, Biodiversity Conservation and Enterprise Development.

African Laboratory for Natural Products

National Reference Centre for African Traditional Medicines

Africa as Ethnopharmacological Treasury.

Husbanding South Africa's botanical heritage.

The launch of the Western Cape's National Reference Centre for African Traditional Medicines.

Herbal Medicines Trade.

Overview on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa.

General misconceptions about health practitioners.

Bringing traditional healers into the health care system.

Collaboration between traditional healers and the department of health.

Traditional healers in South Africa.

A prime example of collaboration between traditional healers and conventional medicine.

The registration of traditional medicines.

A handbook for South African Traditional Healers.

Traditional Medicine in Mozambique.

Traditional Medicine in Uganda.

Traditional healers face a new world.

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Traditional Healers

Culture : Health and Illness

The Handbook on African Traditional Herbal Medicine

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Buchu - Agathosma betulina

Duimpie-snuif / S'Keng-Keng - Pleispilos bolusii :

Pleiospilos, How to Grow Them

Khat leaves may hold natural fertility booster.

Lion's Ear - Leonotis leonorus

Redbush tea is an uplifting drink.

Unlocking the mysteries of Aloe.

Voacanga africana.

Voacanga thouarsii.

Viagra rival from African tree.

Giant mushroom baffles experts in Congo.

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 Kanna - Sceletium tortuosum :

1. Empathogenic effects of Sceletium tortuosum.

2. Psychoactive Constituents of the Genus Sceletium.

3. The Distribution of Mesembrine Alkaloids in Selected Taxa of the Mesembryanthemaceae and their Modification in the Sceletium Derived `Kougoed'.

4. Historical accounts of Sceletium.

5. Traditional medicinal use of Kanna.

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