Adaptogen health food selection with herbs and spices. [Courtesy/iStock]
Under colonial rule, traditional medicine and its practitioners were outlawed.
Even after independence, medical professionals did little to counter the widespread belief that traditional healing was unscientific and irrelevant to national healthcare systems.
Today, however, attitudes are slowly changing.
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