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For centuries the only medical system accessible to people in Ladakh was the Amchi, the traditional doctor following ‘Sowa Rigpa’, Tibetan medicine. 84% of Ladakh’s population lives in villages and...
When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....
Natural medicine is not new, the beginnings go back thousands of years to many different cultures and has been adapted over the years to our modern day complimentary therapies. It is possible to re-forge the...
Adhiambo means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the Language of the Luo in western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month of her...
The story of M. Trinh Nguyen’s journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle’s folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his medicines for tumors, leprosy, and...
Looks at the social and medicinal significance of plants in north-east Brazil through the framework of organisations operating within the Plantas do Nordeste or PNE, a scientific initiative in collaboration...
In India ecologist Vandana Shiva argues that the introduction of high-yield crops does not taken into account women’s knowledge of seeds, fostering a type fo development that ignores people’s needs....
Series on traditional, alternative and scientific methods of medicine around the world, considering their historical background and how they are practised today. 1: How herbalism has changed from a rural...
The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...
Tibet’s first woman physician, the late Ama Lopsang Dolma, shows how medicines are made from animal, vegetable and mineral substances and how acupuncture and moxibustion (burning the herb moxa on the skin...
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