非洲傳統醫學

There are more than 20,000 indigenous plant species in South Africa, which is described as a hotspot of botanical diversity.南非有超過XNUMX種本地植物物種，被描述為植物多樣性的熱點地區。 Several thousand of them are used by traditional healers every day in that country for treating a range of problems from the common cold to serious diseases such as AIDS.在該國，每天有數千名傳統治療師被用於治療從普通感冒到艾滋病等嚴重疾病的一系列問題。 The International Center for Indigenous Phytotherapy Studies (TICIPS), a collaborative research effort between the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of the Western Cape, will investigate whether Sutherlandia, or Lessertia frutescens, is safe in HIV-infected patients and prevents wasting and Artemisia afra, widely used to treat respiratory infections, might be useful in treating Tuberculosis according to scientists.密蘇里-哥倫比亞大學和西開普大學之間的一項合作研究國際土著植物療法研究中心（TICIPS）將研究Sutherlandia或frerstia frutescens在感染HIV的患者中是否安全，並防止浪費和據科學家稱，被廣泛用於治療呼吸道感染的艾蒿可用於治療結核病。