African Traditional Medicine (ATM) and African Traditional Religion (ATR).
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what are atm and atr? the only atms i know are machines for taking out money.ken
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa's traditional practitioners and the war against the coronavirusUnfortunately it is too early to declare victory, Ken. Neo-colonial thinking persists in several quarters.--
Much more has to be done in terms of funding, as Patrick Effiboley indicates in his contribution. There is also the psychological barrier by some evangelicals who conflate ATM with ATR and believe that lightening will strike them dead, or even worse, that they may turn into a pillar of salt, if they support ATM in any form.
Michael, Thanks--for the information onOdomosu's text. I look forward to the publication, and will senda copy to Ken😀 who thinks thata body of knowledge about disease and its treatment does not exist, in the case of ATR. That amounts to saying that ATM does not exist, Ken.
I thought cinchona bark/quinine was a great example. After about two hundred years the mainstream medical establishment still rely on it and apparently have no better option.I was happy to hear of thetrials in Burkina Faso, Patrick.Please keep us informed of the outcome.
GE
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i thought it was not unusual nowadays for scientific medical knowledge/practitioners to be studying traditional medical practices. i have seen articles on that topic. we aren't back in the benighted colonial days any more. my post had to do broadly with how we might think of traditional practices in this case, as opposed to others where a body of knowledge about a disease and its treatments might have been createdke
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa's traditional practitioners and the war against the coronavirus--Thanks for sharing the good news, Gloria. I sure hope our world will descend its high throne of elitism and pay close attention to our indigenous knowledge. If I recall, your 2016 edited work with Edward Shizha has a nice chapter you wrote on this subject. I should revisit it.
Dr. Ayandele, I would be specially interested in the outcome of your survey. I should also let you know that the oldest work on Yoruba traditional medicine by J. M. Odumosu (written between 1895 and 1910) is fraught with all sorts of herbal (and non-herbal) remedies. Dr. Helen Tilley of Northwestern University, currently on sabbatical at Cambridge University) and I translated it to the English language and is contracted with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Press. Annotation is all we are currently working on now. Hopefully it should be out next year. Stay tuned!
Michael
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Africa's traditional medical practitioners are in search of a cure for the corona virus. Let us support them fully.
Practitioners in Mali, Benin and Ethiopia seem to be on the trail, and all eyes should be on them. We wish them success on behalf of humanity.
To that sizable group of skeptics and "doubting Thomases"- who are prone to present a litany of woes and indictments against traditional medicine, there is one question I want to ask:
Where do you think chloroquine came from? For generations, Native American traditional practitioners utilized the bark of the cinchona tree in the fight against malaria, and eventually saved thousands of lives around the globe in the process. The pharmaceutical corporations took note, at some point, creating synthetic versions of the plant, whose molecular structure they deciphered. Trials of chloroquine, for coping with the corona virus is proceeding as we speak.
So is there not another tree bark with parallel or even greater potential, in Africa's local therapeutic and pharmaceutical arsenal?
The search by the local traditional scientists must go on. They need governmental and public support and, thankfully, in some cases seem to be getting that.
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