Sentences with phrase «ngangkari traditional healers»

A traditional healer, Edem and his family pose in front of their home.

It's not unusual for the most noted of traditional healers in the Pacific Northwest to support themselves as seasonal fishermen and loggers.

(Credo Mutwa, a leader of traditional healers, appeared in the Cape Argus recently speaking of ancient practices involving voluntary quarantine, which he claimed defeated earlier waves of venereal disease introduced by colonial forces.)

Traditional healers or curanderos usually treat this condition with a blend of spiritual rituals and herbs.

Always talk to your health - care provider or traditional healer before taking any herbs or over the counter medications.

The fictional «experts» in the book are respected members of their communities, such as grandmothers and traditional healers.

Formed Care Groups with Pastors / Traditional Healers to share health messages with the communitya

Basic Needs - Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization working in the area of mental health has targeted 800 traditional healers and prayer camp managers across the country for training on the best practices in managing mental illness.

The training seek to equip the traditional healers and prayer camp managers with knowledge mental illness, rights of mental health patients and management of mental illness.

He lobbied for more CHPS compounds for under - served communities where traditional healers served as caregivers.

In May, women from Sierra Leone attended the funeral of a traditional healer who had treated Ebola patients across the border in Guinea.

In a survey, published in 1998, he found depression in a quarter of people who visited primary care clinics in Harare, and in a third of people who relied on traditional healers.

The tall Fulani woman carried herself into the traditional healer's hut with the bearing of a princess.

That means finding every single case, tracing that patient's contacts, and isolating all of those who show symptoms — a huge challenge in a country where many villages are hours away from a road, Ebola symptoms like diarrhea and fever are common, and the fear of the deadly virus drives some contacts to skip town and seek out a traditional healer.

Ruben Sher, head of the National AIDS Training Outreach says: «Traditional healers have a vital role to play, as they are regularly consulted by more than 80 per cent of black people.»

A spokesman for the Traditional Healers Association of South Africa said that the sangomas feared contracting AIDS through their frequent treatment of patients by cutting skin (to release evil) and rubbing powders into the wounds.

Traditional healers in parts of Asia use dried turtle shell to treat fever and malaria.

A deadly virus in a part of the world that had no experience with it, health systems neglected during years of civil war, and a population that was highly mobile across borders, distrustful of governments, and more inclined to seek out traditional healers.

This increase was particularly great in women who had previously seen a traditional healer.

They prefer to use traditional healers, which may help the disease spread faster.

The treatment, known as vaginal steaming, is as old as the hills and is well - respected by traditional healers across the globe, remedying almost any aspect of uterine pathology.

He became familiar with the local traditional healers, called sangomas, which kindled his interest in non-Western healing modalities.

Highly prized for millennia by herbalists and traditional healers in Asia, the cordyceps mushroom is an extremely unusual fungus with a reputation as a profoundly effective adaptogenic herb that is especially useful as a rejuvenative and for building strength and endurance in those who consume it.

Arvigo ® Therapy is rooted in techniques passed down through many generations of traditional healers in Central America.

Her constant thirst for knowledge in the pursuit of finding answers to her patient's problems has taken her around the world, learning from traditional healers and native cultures from such diverse places as Australia, India, Mexico, Peru, Africa, and Sri Lanka; as well as from the best of the innovative thinkers and scientists our country has to offer.

Known primarily for their use in cooking, tart cherries have also long been used by traditional healers as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments and diseases.

Since 1964 I have been studying natural medicine around the world in conventional educational settings as well as with master traditional healers.

In that region, traditional healers have long used pumpkin as a treatment for common skin conditions.

Traditional healers have long recommended chamomile tea as a simple, healthy (and delicious!)

It's a relic of ancient Mayan midwifery that has been passed down through generations of childbearing women, and traditional healers, modern midwives and holistic doctors who understand that the herbal remedy is an important part of postpartum care.

He was also a curandero or traditional healer.

During the mid 1990's, she entered a Ph.D. program in indigenous studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and apprenticed with traditional healers around the globe, particularly in Africa.

Many people in Ghana go to conventional medical clinics for care, but they also go to traditional healers and priests.

This had been a primary pretext for the medieval purges of alleged witches and familiars, which actually had the net effect of purging whole regions of traditional healers, and of extirpating one of the first lines of community defense against disease - carrying rodents.

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Today I'm sorry but Ketut and Slim are heading up into the Bedugal mountains to seek out a traditional healer to try and get Slim's shoulder fixed up.

Nat explains importance of plants for medicine to American undergraduate students in the presence of a traditional healer.

She points to such innovative social enterprises as the Council's Tjanpi Desert Weavers which represents more than 400 women artists from 26 remote communities and the Ngangkari program that melds traditional healers with the best of western medicine to maximise health outcomes and wellbeing.

One of the keynote addresses will be delivered by Ngangkari traditional healers: Toby Baker, Clem Dalby, Tinpulya Mervyn, Josephine Mick and Maringka Burton.

Some of the high achievers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health were recognised at a stunning ceremony at the Deadlys in Sydney last night, including psychologist Professor Pat Dudgeon, the Rewrite Your Story campaign, Aboriginal Health Worker Leonie Morcome from the Biripi Aboriginal Medical Service, and this publication from Magabala Books, Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari.

Ngangka ri is the Pitjantjatjara word for traditional healers.

he Ngangkari told the conference their role as traditional healers for 28 communities in the remote Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjar (NPY) lands was strong.

The Ngangkari told the conference their role as traditional healers for 28 communities in the remote Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjar (NPY) lands was strong.

Not exact matches

As others were getting sick, the traditional village healers, sometimes called the «secret societies» by outsiders, would attempt to dispel the evil spirits that seemed to cause these hellish symptoms, keeping both the illness and the ultimate deaths shrouded from the rest of the world.

«A cure - all in traditional households and the magic ingredient in classic gourmet cuisine, chicken stock or broth made from bones of chicken, fish and beef builds strong bones, assuages sore throats, nurtures the sick, puts vigor in the step and sparkle in love life — so say grandmothers, midwives and healers.»

In addition to colic, some traditional but mostly alternative healers suspect that dairy products play a role in childhood illness, including runny noses, constipation, ear infections and gas.

Listen to audio clips collected for Nicole's thesis, A Long Line of Healers: Tracking the Evolution of Birthing Practices Among Women of African Descent and its Connection to the History of Traditional Midwifery in the American South.

In 1991, she founded the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), the first international non-profit to address the needs of black midwives, and increase the number of midwives, doulas and healers of color, to empower families to reduce infant and maternal mortality.

• Give communities a central role in identifying cases, contact tracing and risk education by engaging local, religious and traditional leaders and healers

Having lived and studied with traditional Mayan healers in Belize for nearly 25 years, Rosita became quite familiar with this miraculous remedy for the womb.