Qi flows from Beijing to Gaborone (Part 2)
Friday, February 19, 2016
Malebo cooks up a concoction in her 'lab'
She studied the level of harmony between modern and traditional health practices in Africa, lessons for Botswana and what particularly the country can learn as it develops its own Traditional Medicine Practice Bill.
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine has been in existence for many decades now. It is here, and thousands of other places, where the baton is handed over to the younger generation to continue the well preserved legacy of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...