Advantages And Disadvantages Of Traditional Medicine

Long ago our forefathers used to believe indigenous knowledge such as traditional medicines like devil’s claw, everlasting and others because they were used to serve different purposes. Most people from the different parts of South Africa like rural areas such as Kwa Zulu Natal, Eastern cape, Mpumalanga and other provinces still even today uses the traditional medicine because people from these region have the concept of indigenous knowledge to their mind and also they practice it as well. The use of traditional medicine helps to reduce some diseases for example devil’s claw it can traditional being used to treat the diseases of the liver, kidney and bladder it can also be used to stimulate appetite and indigestion. In some towns and small dropies people from rural areas usually go to the bush to harvest some herbs and sell them in town as a source of income which reduces unemployment.

Recently people do suffer from different diseases which increases death rate whereas there are people from different parts of the world that can recommend herbs to heal the sick ones.

Furthermore after the 21st century people turn to avoid the traditional medicines because of their status, their recent church that people are attending and some believe that it does not work. In the following essay argue the negative perception regarding traditional medicine.

2. Section

2.1 African traditional worldviews This section argue from traditional African worldview that the use of traditional medicines are good for our health because when one is ill/sick the traditional doctor/healer is consulted whereby the person will be given certain herbs to be healed without any use of technology, traditional medicine are