South Africa

Roots of the problem: how safe is your traditional medicine?

04 February 2019 - 08:00 By TANYA FARBER
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Mxolisi Ketso from Cape Town is one of more than 200,000 traditional healers across the country.
Mxolisi Ketso from Cape Town is one of more than 200,000 traditional healers across the country.
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Almost half of South Africans consult traditional healers, but the medicines they use are not being tested properly.

The warning comes in the SA Journal of Science, where researchers from the Vaal University of Technology say extracts of wild garlic can damage the chromosomes of cells.

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