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Community
health care services based on in the whole of the person, the of Africans has so much modern
culture, religious background, root cause of diseases, and not knowledge but has been cut off
knowledge, attitudes, and symptoms that modern medicine from the wisdom of the past that
beliefs that are prevalent in his concentrates on. sees the whole rather than just
community. Illness is regarded the individual. We need to bridge
as having both natural and Education that gap again.
supernatural causes and thus Learning and education that
must be treated by both physical occurred in Africa were From the three examples above,
and spiritual means. Herbal necessitated to meet the it’s easy to see that African
medicine is the cornerstone of exigencies of the whole wisdom and knowledge system
traditional medicine but may society through training of its were created in such a way
include minerals and animal members either in groups or that fostered holistic healing
parts. on an individual basis. This of a person, and community
approach fostered cooperation cohesion, which when contrasted
Herbal medicine was once and collaboration amongst with the modern-day system
termed primitive by Western the community members and of knowledge, is miles apart.
medicine but through scientific promoted the perfection of The culture of modern-day
investigations, there is a better knowledge and skills before individualism and consumerism
understanding of its therapeutic being transmitted to posterity. is a corruption that must be
activities such that many According to Vanqa (1995) dealt with using ancient African
pharmaceuticals have been essentially training was intended wisdom.
modeled on phytochemicals to enable an individual to play
derived from it. Even though a useful role in society. It is Prayer for Morocco
it is a well-known thing that important to mention that the Ancient Moroccan architecture
when foreign pharmaceutical learning did not follow any is just a fragment of what you
companies come to Africa to comprehensive and formal bring to the African table, so,
get major components from the curricula, which in most cases may you find more grace to share
plants that are found in Africa for resulted in important knowledge more African wisdom for life
their medicines, they don’t give and skills getting lost when the and living and the betterment of
credit or worthy compensation custodians of such knowledge all Africans.
to the communities from where and skills died or lost their
they get the plants, but that cognitive abilities. But here is You are blessed Morocco and
does not take away from the where modern-day recording may you remain blessed and
effectiveness of Africa’s holistic systems can help. And like health, lifted above all that fights against
health system. African education deals with the your progress.
whole person in connection with
The point I am making is, we the community.
need to take seriously our African
holistic medicine that factors And to be frank, this generation
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