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African Medicinal Knowledge

African Medicinal Knowledge

Courtesy of the New York Public Library

Courtesy of the New York Public Library

Knowledge of medicine in West and Central Africa spread throughout the Americas during the African slave trade. The majority of the West and Central Africans who disembarked in Cuba during the slave trade came from the Akan, Igbo (Ibo), and Congo; they taught their youth how to forage for leaves, roots, barks, and berries with various healing properties and how to use them. They used parts of plants or the fruit of a plant in combination with honey and water prescribing teas,

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