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Herbal medicines used by traditional birth attendants in Malaŵi

C H Bullough, W P Leary

Tropical and Geographical Medicine

|March 1, 1982

Abstract:

Some herbal medicines used by Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) in Malaŵi are identified, and the way in which the TBAs use them described. Two of the medicines were found to possess the oxytocic properties which the TBAs claimed for them.

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