Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Laplante Julie (19..-....) ;
- Editeurs : New York Berghahn ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2015
- ISBN : 978-1-7823-8554-7, 1-7823-8554-1
- Sujets : Armoises -- usage thérapeutique -- Afrique du Sud, Plantes médicinales, Médecine populaire, Ethnopharmacologie, Biologie moléculaire, Sydafrika
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-289 p.), : Ill., couv. ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Epistemologies of healing, Volume 15,
Notes
Bibliographie p. 258-275. Index
Résumé
'Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like 'medicine,' thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This 'natural' remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical -- from the 'open air' to controlled environments -- learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.'--Provided by publisher