Sentences with phrase «traditional healers»

It encourages health services to develop policies and protocols on the use of traditional healers such as cleansing ceremonies and the use of traditional bush medicine, guided by locally acceptable practices, and also suggests the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander names for wards and meeting rooms.

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

He travels to local communities to talk with traditional healers who use local plants to treat malaria patients.

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

Ngangka ri is the Pitjantjatjara word for traditional healers.

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.

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

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.

He became familiar with the local traditional healers, called sangomas, which kindled his interest in non-Western healing modalitiesIn 1984, Dr. Lipman immigrated to the United States, where he became the chief medical resident at Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, NY.

It was also an important part of the recent Australian Indigenous Doctors» Association (AIDA) conference in Melbourne, from the leading role of the Ngangkari traditional healers as keynote speakers through to a poignant performance by legendary musician Archie Roach.

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

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

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 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.

Many leading herbalists and traditional healers question the warnings, pointing to laboratory tests that show only minute levels of PAs in random samples of comfrey preparations.»

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In some West African traditions, the graver symptoms of severe malaria — disorientation, fainting, convulsions — are thought to be caused by non-human spirits, and so a common first stop is to a traditional healer rather than a modern health clinic.

(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.)

Recent scientific findings support the wisdom of these traditional healers.

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

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

Also in various societies, traditional healers would always recommend them for lactating mothers.

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 said, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ahmed Iliyasu, appealed to members of the public, especially hospitals as well as traditional healers to report anybody who presents himself with gunshot injury.

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

Investigation by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) uncovered an epidemiological link between this case and the burial of a traditional healer who had treated EVD patients from Guinea.

Her parents took her to a local hospital and to a traditional healer, but nothing was working.

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.

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.

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.

For hundreds of years, traditional healers have prescribed different parts of Moringa tree for treatment of skin diseases, respiratory illnesses, ear and dental infections, hypertension, diabetes, cancer treatment, water purification, and have promoted its use as a nutrient dense food source.

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.