Bright Simmons on adopting policies supportive of
herbal medicine a key component of "
indigenous industrial systems":
The policy in many African nowadays is to deemphasise brands and wherever possible to promote generics in order to rationalise costs and improve access (see an interesting take on the matter from Australia). For herbal medicines to attain the status of admission into national treatment regimes will require an unprecedented effort at standardization (see a common view from India).Ghana, for instance, has developed a basic herbal “pharmacopoeia”, which is in essence an inventory of plants and their well-tested medicinal properties. Such efforts would need to be intensified. Because until there is a clear record of carefully and systematically collated body of evidence tying some properly defined plant compound to medicinal outcomes, the integration of herbal medicines into the orthodox healthcare system would not be possible.
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Plucking leaves from a tree, taking blooms from scrubland and meadow and digging the ground for roots are ordinary tasks that are carried out by many folk. They are incorporated into diets for a medicinal purposes. There are folk that by oral traditions have lore given to them by their forebears or which they have found out themselves about the herbs that they use. There are also documents that are kept that tell of herbs and their properties. These should be sought and included in more detailed publications on herbs by way of background.
The internal market of a particular area is a target for locally grown and known herbs. Any commercial production should be aimed at this market. To meet the standards and reqirements of another market the manufacturers would need to put in place the facilities that may require accreditation of some sort.
To sample herbs a good way to begin is to boil leaves, bark, seeds, roots etc. Then drink the residue like when one makes tea.
Another way is to sprinkle or cook with herbs to give out a smack. This can be done with grainmeal boiled.
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