Healing herbs and heritage - The Mail & Guardian
Healing herbs and heritage 4 Feb 2021 For a lot of Africans, traditional and Western medicine have a symbiotic relationship and are not deemed opposites (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images) We grew up in Port Elizabeth with a garden full of produce tended to by uMama. Seasonal fruit and vegetables that sprouted and yielded nourishment with what always seemed like little coaxing from her. Potato, butternut, intyabontyi, beetroot, spinach, eggplant, tomato, cabbage, carrot, lettuce, onion — seasons coaxing in new harvests. She also had a bush of umhlonyane, the cur...
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