Traditional healers of South Africa

（重定向自Sangomas）

Sangoma performing a divination by reading the bones after being thrown

Preparing and drying out freshly picked mutis

Traditional healers of South Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa. They fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witches, and narrating the history, cosmology, and myths of their tradition. There are two main types of traditional healers within the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana and Tsonga societies of Southern Africa: the diviner (sangoma), and the herbalist (inyanga). These healers are effectively South African shamans who are highly revered and respected in a society where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft, pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences) or through neglect of the ancestors. It is estimated that there are as many as 200,000 indigenous traditional healers in South Africa compared to 25,000 Western-trained doctors. Traditional healers are consulted by approximately 60% of the South African population, usually in conjunction with modern biomedical services.

单词	Sangomas
释义	Sangomas 原声例句 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 When she began practicing there were few sangomas in this city, but now there are several on each street. 当她开始行医时这个城市几乎没有治疗师, 但是现在每条街道都有几人。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 In order to protect their image, sangomas created the Traditional Healer Organization, known as THO. 为了保护他们的形象, 这些治疗师们创造了传统治疗师组织, 简称THO。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 Program manager Thlakele Shongwe helped create the code of conduct—which he says protects sangomas and their clients. 项目经理塔拉克勒·肖恩帮助创建行动代码—他表示这对治疗师及他们的客户都能起到保护作用。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 Most sangomas are no longer able to earn a living from their practice alone. 大多数治疗师们独自一人已经不再能够谋生。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 Bavumile has been a traditional healer, or a sangoma, for 12 years. 巴姆艾尔12年来一直是传统治疗师, 或者被人们称为巫师。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 Sangomas also face increasing competition from Western medicine as general health care has been made more accessible to more South Africans in the last 20 years. 治疗师们也面临来自西医越来越多的竞争，在过去的20年一般卫生保健已取得更多南非人的信任。 VOA Standard 2013年2月合集 Recognizing the cultural importance of sangomas, the government created regulatory guidelines in 2003 in the Traditional Health Practitioners Bill to protect both the public and the practice. But it has yet to be fully implemented. 认识到治疗师的文化重要性后, 2003年政府设立了传统的医疗从业者监管指南来保护公众和这些从业人员。但它尚未完全实现。英语百科 Traditional healers of South Africa （重定向自Sangomas） Traditional healers of South Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa. They fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witches, and narrating the history, cosmology, and myths of their tradition. There are two main types of traditional healers within the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana and Tsonga societies of Southern Africa: the diviner (sangoma), and the herbalist (inyanga). These healers are effectively South African shamans who are highly revered and respected in a society where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft, pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences) or through neglect of the ancestors. It is estimated that there are as many as 200,000 indigenous traditional healers in South Africa compared to 25,000 Western-trained doctors. Traditional healers are consulted by approximately 60% of the South African population, usually in conjunction with modern biomedical services.
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