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Traditional medicine is a term that does not just simply refer to herbal cures for illnesses. It also touches on all kinds of healing approaches. In this issue we have focused on the enormous benefits available in using tried and tested herbal remedies. However, the boundary between herbal cures and more spiritual influences is not clear. Christians have often avoided all aspects of traditional medicine for fear of negative spiritual influences.
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Malaria is a serious and growing problem world-wide, with about 2.5 million people dying as a result of malaria each year. The malaria parasites increasingly develop resistance to the well-known malaria drugs. New drugs are being developed, but these are often extremely expensive and not easily obtained. However, traditional medicine seems to be providing new hope.
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by Dr Hans-Martin Hirt and Dr Keith Lindsey. When Europeans first arrived in Africa, Asia and the Americas and witnessed practices such as ritual sacrifice and ancestor worship, they quickly labelled these as primitive. Instead, they introduced the people to European customs, culture and religion. However, we now recognise that there is much to learn from these traditional cultures. In rejecting some dangerous practices, many other beneficial practices were ignored.
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The preparation of a medicine from a plant that contains a beneficial chemical varies according to the chemical and the plant. Sometimes the chemical is extracted from the leaves by the use of boiling water. Sometimes the roots are dug up and ground. The most basic and common process for producing medicines is to use liquid and heat.
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by René Gayana Simbard. The Pan-African Institute of Community Health (IPASC) in DR Congo has several departments including training, research, healthcare, mother and childcare and consultation.
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Information in Footsteps has helped people build ferro-cement tanks for rainwater. However, many people need to know how they can avoid mosquitoes breeding in these tanks. Here are some practical steps I have developed to make a dome shaped cover…
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Cultivating medicinal plants ensures that they are preserved for your own use and for future generations. Many fruits provide medicine as well as food. These include banana, pineapple, mulberry, passion fruit and pawpaw (papaya). Food plants that also provide medicine include onion, garlic, groundnut, cabbage, chilli, coffee, pumpkin, sunflower, sweet potato, rice, maize, ginger, black pepper and sesame (Sesamum indicum).
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by Markus Müller and Innocent Balagizi. We opened a seminar about traditional medicine in Asmara, Eritrea with the question, ‘Do any of you have some experience with traditional medicine?’ There was a complete, even hostile, silence in the room. Finally some participants said, ‘We are Christians. We have nothing to do with it.’
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Charlie Forst gives details of two cooking fuels which may be new to some readers. He works with ECHO
