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Description:Although it rarely receives the attention it deserves from anthropologists, medical herbalism is perhaps the most widespread and most ancient form of therapy. This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi. Offering the first comprehensive examination of medical herbalism in Malawi, this study combines anthropological and botanical insights into medical herbalism. The book is divided into two the first outlines the ethnographic context of the herbalist tradition with discussion of Chewa ethnobotany and the local classification of plants; the various categories of medicine that are expressed in the local culture; the nature and scope of folk herbalism, its practitioners and its relation to biomedicine; local conceptions of disease; and beliefs relating to witchcraft and divination. The second part, which incorporates the researches of a Malawian chemist, Dr Jerome Msonthi, contains detailed information on over 500 Malawian plants with notes on their local names, distribution, botanical descriptions and various medicinal uses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London)). To get started finding Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London)), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Although it rarely receives the attention it deserves from anthropologists, medical herbalism is perhaps the most widespread and most ancient form of therapy. This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi. Offering the first comprehensive examination of medical herbalism in Malawi, this study combines anthropological and botanical insights into medical herbalism. The book is divided into two the first outlines the ethnographic context of the herbalist tradition with discussion of Chewa ethnobotany and the local classification of plants; the various categories of medicine that are expressed in the local culture; the nature and scope of folk herbalism, its practitioners and its relation to biomedicine; local conceptions of disease; and beliefs relating to witchcraft and divination. The second part, which incorporates the researches of a Malawian chemist, Dr Jerome Msonthi, contains detailed information on over 500 Malawian plants with notes on their local names, distribution, botanical descriptions and various medicinal uses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London)). To get started finding Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London)), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London))

Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi Part 1: The Herbalist Tradition; Part 2: Medicinal Plants of Malawi (Monographs from the International African Institute (London))

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