A Survey of the Antibacterial Activity of Three Plants Used in the Congolese Herbal Medicine Practiced by the Healers in the City of Lubumbashi: Recent Advancement | Chapter 6 | Trends in Pharmaceutical Research and Development Vol. 1
Since 2002, the folk medicine promotion and integration in the Congolese health’s system has become a reality because it has been proven to be a viable alternative for the majority of the population daily confronted to health problems due to the lack of access to primary care services. Moreover, the cohabitation between the modern and folk medicine has been successfully implemented in many countries throughout the world and consequently, those countries are looked at a best examples of the integration of the folk medicine in their health’s system. As a result, a great number of the illnesses that torment people living in rural and urban areas are both cured by the modern physicians and traditional healers using different therapeutic approaches and schemes. The City of Lubumbashi in the DR Congo is also concerned this phenomenon and what precedes is raising the issue of ascertaining that the therapeutic implemented by traditional healers is valid. Such a preoccupation is con...