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Afrika’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Table 2:
Dr. Jack Githae’s Challenges and Recommendations
approach

CHALLENGE RECOMMNENDATION

Deficiency and related Use of medicinal foods, probiotics,
metabolic disorders beverages and herbal supplements
Poor mental health Safe herbal mood alleviation tonics
and stimulants e.g. herbal teas

Microbial resistance Use of herbal broad spectrum anti-
to common antibiotics biotics and antioxidants
e.g. MDRTB,
Pneumonia
Proliferation of Use of herbal immune boosters to
communicable and help the body resist both commu-
non-communicable nicable and non-communicable
diseases diseases and withstand environmen-
tal imbalances and shocks through
disinfection and detoxification of
pollutants including heavy metals in
the body

Emerging infectious Herbs have traditionally been used
diseases and toxicity for both prevention and curative dis-
related metabolic eases. There is room to innovate a
diseases wide range of more impactful herbal
cocktail therapies. There is need to
embrace organic farming to militate
against toxicity in animals, plants soil
and water.

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