Medical staff at a clinic in the coastal slum of Kroo Bay, in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are keeping a diary of their working lives for the BBC News website.

Here, Bintu Koroma, who is a midwife at the clinic, talks about traditional beliefs and troubled pregnancies.

I am posting this for a friend of mine... but I'm also curious to know if anyone out there has more info on the info below... especially a translation on the Methods and Prescriptions for immortality; Qugu-shiqi. (See third link below) Thanks!I am a fan of the Te-Tao-Ching and have a copy of Robert Henrick's translation of the Ma-wang-tui ( Read more... )

By Anna Horsbrugh Porter, Producer, The Wonderful World of Neem

The Neem tree grows prolifically throughout South Asia, especially in India, Sri Lanka and Burma.Its medicinal properties have been known about for thousands of years - Neem features in ancient Sanskrit texts - and its uses are so varied that this tree is called the "Village Pharmacy ( Read more... )

In a quiet government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information.These doctors are practitioners of ayurveda, unani and siddha, ancient Indian medical systems that date back thousands of years ( Read more... )