Spread of Traditional Medicines in India

Traditional veterinary medicines used by livestock owners of Rajasthan, India

Livestock comprises a major part of Indian agriculture economics. Livestock owners in farflung remote areas still depend upon plants and animal products for curing various veterinary ailments. This folk knowledge of ethnoveterinary significance has been identified by tribal and rural people through a process of experience over hundreds of years. The present paper deals with the plant as well as...

Use of traditional eye medicines by patients with corneal ulcer in India

International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health | 2015 | Vol 4 | Issue 7 1001 International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health Online 2015. © 2015 Pankaj Choudhary. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistri...

Traditional Medicines and Traditional Healers in South Africa

Executive Summary Traditional healers have a crucial role to play in building the health system in South Africa and strengthening and supporting the national response to HIV/AIDS. This paper sketches a background to traditional healing in South Africa and discusses international policies, guidelines and the South African legal framework on traditional health practitioners. It argues for the reg...

Traditional herbal medicines for malaria.

Traditional healing practice and folk medicines used by Mishing community of North East India

Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have very rich tradition of herbal medicines used in the treatment of various ailments. Tribal communities practice different types of traditional healing practices. Enough documentation is available on the healing practices in other tribal communities except Mishing community of Assam and foot hill of East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh hence the attempt was ma...