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From: aaa@link.UUCP (Wale Akinpelu)
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Subject: Is there any benefit in African Medicine
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 14:29:21 EDT
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Before colonization started in African countries, there
were native people (called traditional doctors) who heal
sick people. Unfortunately, most of these techniques were
lost during the colonial period. Now, there is a strong
attempt in most African Universities to see if they
recover the lost knowledge. So far the attempt has been
quite succesful. I should say here that, I am not
advocating that we should ignore the current Western
approach of medicine. The point I like us to share
is, Can we learn anything from the ways African
Doctors treat sick people? For example, it has proved
that the reason why african people have less dental
people is because they eat more calcium food and because
they use a combination of chewing stick and brush to
clean their mouth. As a matter of fact, my dentist ask
me to bring a couple of chewing stick when next I visit
any African country. Is this theory true?


African method of treatment depends heavily on herbs.
However, there are no dosage and no proper documentation
to pass knowledge to the younger generation. Does anybody
have any knowledge on how to pass these knowledge to
the western countries without any distortion?

Wale Akinpelu
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