A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the African peoples. It includes treatment by MEDICINAL PLANTS and other MATERIA MEDICA as well as by the ministrations of diviners, MEDICINE MEN, witch doctors, and sorcerers.
    

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Community-based AIDS prevention and care in Africa : building on local initiatives.

African herbal pharmacopoeia / edited by Brendler, T., J.N. Eloff, A. Gurib-Fakim, L.D. Phillips.

Handbook of African medicinal plants / Maurice M. Iwu.

Traditional Medicine Research Institute handbook / Traditional Medicine Research Council, National Council for Research.

A different kind of AIDS : folk and lay theories in South African townships / David Dickinson.

Boiling energy : community healing among the Kalahari Kung / [Richard Katz].

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African herbal pharmacopoeia / edited by Brendler, T., J.N. Eloff, A. Gurib-Fakim, L.D. Phillips.

Handbook of African medicinal plants / Maurice M. Iwu.

Traditional Medicine Research Institute handbook / Traditional Medicine Research Council, National Council for Research.

A different kind of AIDS : folk and lay theories in South African townships / David Dickinson.

Boiling energy : community healing among the Kalahari Kung / [Richard Katz].