African Herbs

Proposis juliflora is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae. It has since been renamed to Neltuma juliflora. It is native to Mexico, ...

Acanthus pubescens belongs to the Acanthaceae family. It is native to East Africa especially Uganda. It is a large shrub like perennial herb...

A man in the village has gone mad. As a youth he had refused to undergo the tribal initiation to manhood. The marabout explains that accord...

A Mundari witch sucks on the body of an old sick woman. She is seeking to transfer the evil spirit tormenting the old woman into a younger ...

For many indigenous African people, medicine that is not magical is not medicine. Among the Azande of Central Africa, an ill person sufferi...

Among the people of Eritrea water is magical because it heals and also purifies. Here, individuals considered mentally unstable are dipped ...

There are plenty of medical practices among indigenous people that western medical practice cannot understand. One of them is the dislodgin...