Traditional healers and leading scientists have joined forces in a dramatic call for Malawi to fully embrace herbal and alternative medicine, demanding urgent research, tighter regulation and an end to the age-old rivalry with conventional doctors. The extraordinary appeal came at a high-level Science Café hosted by Kamuzu University of Health Sciences during its 5th […]
Balaka Second Grade Magistrate’s Court on Monday convicted and sentenced a false herbalist to 30 months Imprisonment with Hard Labour for obtaining money by false pretence. Balaka Police Station spokesperson Felix Misomali identified the convict as David Lamiyasi, 40. He said the convict committed the crime in February, 2020 at Phalura in the district. Misomali […]
Government has issued a stern warning to herbalists against claiming they have the cure for coronavirus. A senior official in the ministry of health Dr Nedson Fosiko said coronavirus is a new disease in the world therefore no one should claim to have discovered its cure. “I am sure those herbalists claiming to have the […]
Chiyambi Mazengera, who is the Managing Director for Chiya Investments Limited, a company which produces Kombumax and Umuthi herbal drinks, has urged his fellow players dealing in herbal products to consider planting a lot of trees this year in order to conserve the environment which is the main source of survival of their business. Mazengera […]
Mzimba Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced a herbalist to two and half years imprisonment with hard labor, for administering poison to a man whose money was stolen. The court heard that Lasted Moyo Khozombi 52, of Chiti village T/A Chindi, had in July 2018, administered some local medication to Philip Nkunika to help him […]
Malawi Police has arrested a herbalist in southern region tea-growing district of Thyolo for allegedly sexually abusing a pregnant 16 year old girl (name shielded for legal reasons.) The suspect, 68 year old Sainet Kopolande who plies his trade around the Boma area is alleged to have raped the girl when her step father sought […]
A herbalist in the southern region‘s tea growing district of Thyolo is facing criminal charges following the death of Ndaziona Duli who died after taking herbs which he alledly prescribed him meant to stop him from excessive beer drinking. Bitoni Malata, 67, is facing count of causing death and is currently in police custody. Thyolo […]
Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons Board (PMPB) has expressed concern on the proliferation of herbal and traditional medicine on the market, stating that the use of such drugs may have harm to the users since they are not scientifically proven to be safe . The board has made the observation amid a proliferation of herbal and traditional medicines […]
Villagers around Mitondo area in Traditional Authority Makhuwira in Chikwawa District on Tuesday woke to a shocking news when they discovered a man lying dead and in a decomposed state. The deceased identified as Eric Nyaswimbo, aged 45 was found dead barely three days after he went missing. Chikwawa Police Station Spokesperson, Constable Foster Benjamin […]
Herbalists in Dedza have embarked on three months tuberculosis (TB) awareness campaign with the aim of encouraging community members to seek medical attention at medical health facilities whenever they catch the illness. President for Dedza Herbalists Association, Masiyambuyo Njolomole, said on Wednesday there is an increase in TB cases due to prevalence of HIV and […]
As one way of showing commitment to charity work, Mchinji female herbalist, Dr. Yakobe Phiri on Wednesday donated assorted items to Mchinji district hospital worth K150,000 in all wards. In her remarks, Dr.Yakobe Phiri said the initiative has come with an aim to help the needy patients saying most of them face challenges because they […]
Malawi Police in Zomba are keeping in custody a 32 year old man, Jackson Simoko for being suspected to have raped and indecently assaulted two women aged between 20 and 23. According to Police, on Friday the two women visited Simoko, herbalist based at six miles in order to obtain some charms to help them […]
A four year old boy, his elder brother and father have died in Mangochi after they took a herbalist concoction. Police identified the deceased as the Daud family. Mother to the deceased Amina Daudi who took the concoction and survived the death said some thieves broke into the kraal of goats and the herbalist gave […]
High Court judge in Mzuzu, Dingiswayo Madise has granted three-Mzuzu residents an injunction banning herbalists from operating in Malawi as one way of curbing the attacks on persons with albinism. The injunction has been obtained on the premise that herbalists are fueling attacks on persons with albinism in Malawi. “After the request of the three […]
Malawi opposition legislatures have asked government to involve traditional healers in the country in the fight against HIV and Aids because of the respect the herbalists command from most communities. Making their contributions to the debate on the Progress of Delivery of HIV and Aids and Nutrition Services in the country presented by the Parliamentary […]
The Mzuzu Magistrate Court has ordered a Herbalist who allegedly forged a Police stamp which he used to forge documents to obtain his debt from a former client to pay back the cash and return the goods he took. Police nabbed Lot Shaba, 32, of Kanavuna Village, Traditional Authority Mzikubola in Mzimba district for forgery, […]