{"id":151685,"date":"2025-06-02T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151685\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:51:09","slug":"going-back-to-the-roots-state-acts-to-save-healing-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151685\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back to the roots: State acts to save healing herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazily w-100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kuvnbS3EpzduFYZnoiSZjg1xlNsAKCw6HLzH6oRA.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\u00a0Adaptogen health food selection with herbs and spices. [Courtesy\/iStock]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-style\">Under colonial rule, traditional medicine and its practitioners were outlawed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-style\">Even after independence, medical professionals did little to counter the widespread belief that traditional healing was unscientific and irrelevant to national healthcare systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-style\">Today, however, attitudes are slowly changing.<\/p>\n<p>Unlock bold, fearless reporting, exclusive stories, investigations, and in-depth analysis with The Standard INSiDER subscription.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/sso?content=eyJpdiI6InEzbW9JUHlISWlwZWdnVWkvQ1FIcnc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWm5OUW5Kdm4zUi9WNVlDYnlyL1JETXhaOXhiZktJaGsrcG1HOTlTNVVMTmgzNU1zdzluLzBFekpETVBnZWNNdExoYUwyTDA3Z1NaRFJ0ajRYQkQ1ZENuNDFrdnRnMWtYckl2NXpsd3ZnMmxBM3YyUlh0MFdUVFR2eHpGVWhNTXNmcHJNOXQ3R3RuZWpTL2Jla2VtbVRrQk5JQ2tIYXcxSkkvbzBvNXVud3BhSlNHYWg1SDJQNjNWZ2x5OHliUjNpWlM2N0FLVkovdFp6U1ZvN1RaK1RPc2JDMXBiSWVIanBHQUFLY21HWlZzcz0iLCJtYWMiOiIzNjcwZGYzOWE5YTZiNGU0NjI3YWU1YzliNDIxMzE4ZTFlYzJiZDQxYzk5Zjg4MTVkM2NlZGU5MGYxOGE2ZjViIiwidGFnIjoiIn0=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nGet Started<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/sso?content=eyJpdiI6InEzbW9JUHlISWlwZWdnVWkvQ1FIcnc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWm5OUW5Kdm4zUi9WNVlDYnlyL1JETXhaOXhiZktJaGsrcG1HOTlTNVVMTmgzNU1zdzluLzBFekpETVBnZWNNdExoYUwyTDA3Z1NaRFJ0ajRYQkQ1ZENuNDFrdnRnMWtYckl2NXpsd3ZnMmxBM3YyUlh0MFdUVFR2eHpGVWhNTXNmcHJNOXQ3R3RuZWpTL2Jla2VtbVRrQk5JQ2tIYXcxSkkvbzBvNXVud3BhSlNHYWg1SDJQNjNWZ2x5OHliUjNpWlM2N0FLVkovdFp6U1ZvN1RaK1RPc2JDMXBiSWVIanBHQUFLY21HWlZzcz0iLCJtYWMiOiIzNjcwZGYzOWE5YTZiNGU0NjI3YWU1YzliNDIxMzE4ZTFlYzJiZDQxYzk5Zjg4MTVkM2NlZGU5MGYxOGE2ZjViIiwidGFnIjoiIn0=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Adaptogen health food selection with herbs and spices. [Courtesy\/iStock] Under colonial rule, traditional medicine and its practitioners were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,64721,4326,58747,5615,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-herbalists","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-medicinal-plants","12":"tag-traditional-medicine","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612920968747490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}