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Though there are wide differences in practice details across the continent, says Okpako, certain key principles set traditional African medicine apart as a distinct theory of healing and not a rudimentary form of modern medicine. He says that the beliefs that practitioners deploy in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of serious illness, though not theories by strict scientific criteria, nevertheless derive from intuitive, practical experience and observation, and encode important ideas that are critical to the understanding of the fundamental nature of illness. He discusses the enduring value of traditional African medicine, the organization of practices and the concepts and instruments deployed in the management of serious illness, and treating minor ailments in traditional African medicine. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
