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No Witchcraft For Sale: A Brief History Of Traditional Healers

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“Traditional medicine has been practised in Ghana for centuries with the majority of Ghanaians still patronising the services of traditional healers”(Boakye). Americans don’t really understand or get the opportunity to experience traditional medicine and healers. Most people don’t really realize that traditional medicine still occurs today. In the short story No Witchcraft for Sale, we get to see that traditional medicine and healers are still around working in their villages even with modern-medicine today.
Traditional healers are thought to have been around decades ago and now use modern-techniques, but that is actually extremely incorrect when talking about Africa. Most of Africa uses traditional techniques with the help of modern techniques if that: “It is …show more content…

Traditional healers use spiritual healing and natural herbs to help heal people who come to them. Many traditional healers tend to their local neighborhood. They try to access the problem by talking with the family of the person who is ill. They then perform the necessary treatment, whether it being a religious ceremony or using natural ingredients to create a medicine. Traditional healers tend to use herbs for healing people. There is a wide variety of plants traditional healers use. For example, Boswellia is used as an anti-inflammatory treatment.Boswellia is an extract used to help with asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis: “ the herb has been tried for a number of conditions in which inflammation is involved, including painful

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