Friday, December 7, 2007

An African Bush Doctor's Prescription For Better Health

Bush Medicine is traditional herbal medicine- the oldest system of healing in the world. Bush medicine started in Africa about 30,000 years ago. In the African-Caribbean culture plants are referred to as ?Bush? such as ?fever bush? or ?toothache bush and are revered for their healing and spiritual properties?. Every culture in world practiced and still practices bush medicine to treat the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual problems of the people. Today 70% of the world?s population still uses traditional herbal medicine (bush medicine) as it?s primary source of health care.
For the past 75 years medical doctors and drug companies have tried to discredit traditional herbal medicine while at the same time sending ethnobotanists all around the world to acquir View the rest of this article


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