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Bringing Traditional Healing Under the Microscope in South Africa

Source
Undark.org

Publication Date
2020-12-30

IN JUNE, Artemisia afra was in high demand on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa. To treat Covid-19 symptoms, the Indigenous herb’s silvery leaves were for sale at roadside vendors and in the city’s popular traditional markets. Some people even pulled the plant from private gardens. And on the sides of nearby highways, people held signs for “mhlonyane” (A. afra’s isiZulu name) and offered bushels to passing motorists like bouquets.

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https://undark.org/2020/12/30/covid-19-south-africa-traditional-medicine/