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Traditional African Medicine is a holistic system with herbs and spiritual elements at its center.  Traditional African Medicine practitioners are healers who believe that their methods can cure many conditions including cancer, AIDS, mental problems, infertility, some sexually transmitted diseases, wounds and burns as well as many other ailments and conditions.  The primary healers in Traditional African Medicine are what are called diviners, midwives, and herbalists.  Diviners focus on the root causes of sickness and many feel that ancestral spirits and the like play a role.  Midwives use herbs and other local plants to assist with pregnancy and childbirth.  Herbalists are completely ingrained in the African Medicine tradition and Herb Markets and herb trading is common in every city and town and community.
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