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PART 2: Green Gold: Looking back for a healthier and sustainable future: An overview of South Africa’s medicinal plant resources

- Dr Gary I Stafford Part two of Dr Stafford’s article on medicinal plant resources in south Africa asks, ‘What is African Traditional Medicine?’ The Draft National Policy on African Traditional Medicine in South Africa (DRAFT NATIONAL POLICY on ATMSA, 2008) defines African traditional medicine as follows: 'African Traditional Medicine is a body of knowledge that has been developed and accumulated by Africans over tens of thousands of years, which is associated with the examination, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, prevention of, or promotion and rehabilitation of the physical, mental, spiritual or social wellbeing of humans and…
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GREEN GOLD: LOOKING BACK FOR A HEALTHIER AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE – AN OVERVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA’S MEDICINAL PLANT RESOURCES (PART 1)

-Dr Gary Stafford This article is the first of a two-part series by Dr Gary Stafford on South Africa’s medicinal plant resources. “The extraordinary floristic diversity in southern Africa is not only one of the region’s greatest natural assets, but also one of the botanical wonders of the world.” Regions of floristic endemism in southern Africa: a review with emphasis on succulents (Van Wyk and Smith, 2001). Dr Gary Stafford was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied botany and ethnobotany (the scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and…
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