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21 April 2008, 07:57
allAfrica.com: Gambia: Brikama Gets Modern Herbal Clinic (Page 1 of 1)
The Bottom in association with Traditional Remedy and Home Care, established the herbal clinic with a view to giving health annoyance to the needy people and to complement government's efforts in fitness care service delivery.
According to Mr.
Saihou Fofana, Employer Familiar of Stone Loop Foundation herbal center, the foundation is a registered CBO, noting that they keep embarked on a series of activities including sensitization, awareness beginning and training of Gambians excited in traditional medicine. Mr.
Fofana described the establishment of the clinic as timely, stating that it will add augmented value to the traditional medication sector in the country.
He further spoke about the many improvements household medicine has away through in The Gambia, adding that more effort needs to be done to lock on the sustenance of the sector.
The Director of the Foundation opined that usual medicine needs a lot of improvement and this can be done through firm with government for the realization and finalization of a traditional medicine policy.
He finally thanked the Branch of Sovereign state representing Health, especially the director of National Traditional Medicine Programme for organising practice container for traditional medicine practitioners in The Gambia.
Muhammed Mansa, championing his part, said the most important contrivance about customary medicine is to treat and cure sickness. He emphasized that the venture is not for commercial gains; that his centre is plain to the grassroots people needing habitual care.
Dr. Mansa noted that his herbal clinic medicine approximately thirteen (13) different ailments, ranging from constipation, high blood pressure, hernia bleeding, stomach pain, diarrheoa, broken bone to spiritual disturbances. Mansa expressed his desire to partner with any organisation that is interested in traditional medicine.
The inauguration ceremony, which was done in impressive style, witnessed free treatment use from the proprietor, Dr. Mansa. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views.
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10 April 2008, 11:08
Doctors To Prescribe Reflexology And Herbal Remedies (from Gazette Series)
Doctors at May Lane surgery are attentive in finding out if herbal remedies, massage, alter of fare or relexology and Reiki may be healthful to patients for whom orthodox medical treatments have not worked. Dr Kathy Curtis-Hayward, a partner at May Lane surgery, said:
As a practice, we are constantly looking at ways to encourage people to be another in control of their health, to be aware of how they can better help themselves. This will be an extremely interesting pilot scheme." She added:
We testament be working closely with Ali Mapstone, a specialist in natural therapies, and asking selected patients if they would be concerned in irksome a different direction to better health.
Of course, we would not be suggesting it to anyone with a genuine medical example which would normally be successfully treated with authorized medicine. But there are many complaints such as eczema, migraine and long-lasting weariness championing which we accept there are no immediate cures.
It could be that frustrating alternative remedial programme may be a solution." Patients who agree to try the variant route will have three one-hour sessions with therapist Ali Mapstone, a practicing reflexologist, aromatherapist and master herbalist, from Wotton-under-Edge.
She has been practising complementary remedy for over 10 oldness and this is the first time she has been involved in a scheme with the NHS.
I am so excited about this being I comprehend it is a ground breaking scheme," said Mrs Mapstone. People can be very sceptical about complementary therapies, but I say just give it a try, have an open mind and lets see what it can do. I combine treatments and glom at the total package and at people's lifestyle.
It is further important to work alongside conventional medicine - they are not an alternative to modern medicine." Dr Curtis-Hayward added:
If the conduct towards are successful, patients can then choose to continue with the alternative regimes in the future, taking more clout of their own health." What's this? What are these links for? If you liked this article and would cherish to participation it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy representing you to do it.
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13 March 2008, 05:08
Interview with Peter Houghton
Interview: The science of herbal remedies 11 March 2008 Peter Houghton hillock Joanne Thomson that there is still much to be learnt from standard medicine. Peter Houghton is Professor in Pharmacognosy in the department of pharmacy at Kings College London.
His research room include substances from bush of potential use in treating central bothered system degenerative disease, cancer and for injury healing. He is further interested in the investigation of herbal medicines.
Peter joined the Habitual Product Story leading article board at the beginning of 2008. What inspired you to become a scientist? I have always been intrigued by the amazing variety in nature and wondered how things work and how they were formed.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the Cotswolds and my father, who was a pharmacist, pointed out many of the wild shrub growing there. I guess that is where my particular interest started.
I have always been intrigued alongside the amazing divergency in nature" However, I like exploring in all sorts of ways and drink in working elsewhere connections between manifestly unrelated facts and how we, as humans, have exploited these.
I think that it is very important for us scientists not to lose a sense of wonder at the incredible complication and beauty of the world around us and the skill and skill of what humans can do. You are interested in ethnopharmacology. Could you analyze what this is and why it is important in the development of original drugs?
Ethnopharmacology is the well-ordered study of traditional medicines, the matter worn for medicinal, pharmaceutical and toxicological purposes by deviating human cultures and societies. Assorted of these materials consist of plants or fungi and their biological activity is, of course, due to the chemical compounds contained in them.
Many important drugs enjoy morphine, digoxin and reserpine came into use being the plants containing them were known as poisons and used as medicines.
In addition, full compounds can serve as lead molecules such as the local anaesthetics derived from cocaine and the muscle relaxants based on curare alkaloids.
The antimalarial artemisinin and galantamine, which is euphemistic pre-owned to deal with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, are recently-introduced medicine which have an ethnopharmacological basis. What are you working on at the moment?
I have an interest in plants used to balm cognitive impairment in dated age, and those cast-off to treat cancer and diabetes." In recent years I have been interested in tree used traditionally to help cognitive impairment in old age, particularly with regard to cholinesterase inhibitors and antioxidants.
I also have an interest in plants used to treat cancer and diabetes and those used to comfort wounds to heal. Do you lap up there is a place for both household and Western medicament in society today?
Very definitely. Medicine is increasingly realising that mixtures of compose are often more useful in treating a malady than a single 'silver bullet' chemical.
Modern approaches to chemotherapy of cancer and AIDS are instance of this. There is increasing evidence for 'polyvalence' in habitual medicines. In other words, contradistinct genre of constituent are present with differing modes of action but all contributing to the all-inclusive clinical effect.
From http://rsc.org/publishing/journals/cb/volume/2008/4/intervie~.asp