“Traditional African medicine has long been at the heart of healthcare in many communities. Yet, despite its proven efficacy, practitioners have faced challenges such as limited formal ...

In 2022, a study documented people in a village near Moukalaba-Doudou National Park and gorillas consuming plants used in traditional medicine. So Yinda and colleagues investigated this food by ...

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has reaffirmed its dedication to promoting African traditional medicine by developing internationally competitive standards. This was emphasised during the ...

This study, published in Nature Medicine, highlights the significant ... while others who ate a Western diet adopted a traditional African diet. A third group consumed a fermented banana drink ...

At the moment so-called "herbal clinics", many selling poor quality remedies, have given traditional medicine a bad name, something experts in the East African nation acknowledge. There have been ...

As China and India have shown, blending traditional and western medicine, why can’t Africa with its rich herbal knowledge do the same? Asks Dr Njoki Ngumi When the initial mediation to end the ...

The Traditional and Alternative Medicine Directorate of the Ministry of Health (MOH) commemorated the 22nd African Traditional Medicine Day and the 25th Traditional Medicine Week in Ghana on ...