For centuries, African traditional healers have used gentle, soothing herbs to heal stomach ulcers while modern medicine was still learning what caused them. These time-tested African herbs that ...

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Stephanie Mitchum talks about her new book African American Folk Healing, which explores the traditions and art of black American home remedies. Now to the art of folkways and a little pop quiz. True ...

VALLEY OF A THOUSAND HILLS, South Africa — The calling came to Janine Andrews in a dream. An elderly woman appeared clutching a fly swatter made from a cow’s tail. She was adorned with colorful beads, ...

This film explores the integration of religion and plantbased medicine in an Ewe vodu community in southern Togo A village priest healer local ethnobotanists and a religious marketeer guide us through ...