Traditional African medicine is a holistic discipline involving indigenous
herbalism and African spirituality, typically involving
diviners, midwives, and
herbalists. Practitioners of traditional African medicine claim to be able to cure various and diverse conditions such as cancers, psychiatric disorders, high blood pressure,
cholera, most venereal diseases, epilepsy, asthma, eczema, fever, anxiety, depression,
benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary tract infections, gout, and healing of wounds and burns and even
Ebola.