Zimbabweans Turn To Herbalists For Treatment As Prices Of Medical Drugs Escalate
10 December 2018
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HARARE -As the country’s economy stutters amid a sharp spike in the prices of medicines, Zimbabweans are skipping trips to drug stores
and instead turning to herbal remedies to treat every-day illnesses.
Herbalists are recording brisk business after the latest round of economic reforms hit supplies of
conventional medicines and increased the cost of some generic and even life-saving drugs.
The herbalists are treating everything from snake- bites, to chronic ailments such as diabetes, high
blood pressure and cancer. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) about 85
percent of Zimbabwe’s population relies on traditional medicine for healing.
Alternative medicines practitioner Godfrey Mwerenga, who has been researching on African herbal medicine for the past 37 years, said it is high time that Zimbabweans return to the beginning of evolution and understand that God created herbs for their well-being as well as for preventive and curing of chronic diseases.
The herbalist, who runs the Modern Herbal Drugs and Cosmetics Clinic, said even modern medicine doctors are now turning to traditional
medicine for new drugs because researches are too costly and are also taking too long to come
up with solutions to some of the emerging diseases.Daily News