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Muti en Mites uit Afrika (Afrikaans, Paperback) Price: R195
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Muti en Mites uit Afrika (Afrikaans, Paperback)

Heather Dugmore, Ben-Erik Van Wyk, Dugmore, Heather | van Wyk, Ben-Erik

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In this book are fifty-two compelling tales that will lead the reader on a journey of discovery of the African continent. It tracks the ancient grail of traditional African medicine or muthi. The journey takes one year, with one story for each of the fifty-two weeks. Many of the stories inherited through Africa’s compelling oral tradition are between these covers: committed to paper for the first time ever.

The ancient African people were the first aromatherapists who well understood the effect of plants on the human body, mind and soul. Innately spiritual, the thousands of lineages of African people across thousands of years have all used plant medicines for healing, always with the blessing of their ancestors.

Knowledge of African plant mythology and its associated healing practices is most certainly a grail because on this great continent we call Africa, knowledge has always been an oral tradition. Because it was never written down, thousands of years of healing wisdom and intelligence have been lost in the transference from one generation to the next.

This book endeavoures to bring to light the deep history of fifty-two of the thousands of indigenous medicinal plants of Africa, before it is too late. The focus is towards Southern Africa because this region is a hotspot of cultural and botanical diversity. Unlike the healing knowledge of other ancient cultures, such as India or China, little of Africa’s healing history is recorded.

As you read the stories about fifty-two of the continent’s prominent indigenous plant cures, the authors hope you, too, will experience some of the magnetism, mystery and wisdom of Africa. They hope it will help you understand a bit more about yourself and about our species: the human being.

General

Imprint: Briza Publications
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: December 2008
Authors: Heather Dugmore • Ben-Erik Van Wyk • Dugmore, Heather | van Wyk, Ben-Erik
Dimensions: 265 x 215 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802599-1-9
Languages: Afrikaans
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Places & peoples: general interest
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Books > Travel > Places & peoples: general interest
Books > Afrikaans > Sport en Ontspanning
Books > Afrikaans > Besigheid en Ekonomie
Books > Afrikaans > Reis
LSN: 0-9802599-1-6
Barcode: 9780980259919

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