Indigenous plants offer Ghanaians an alternative to costly Western medicine

About 60 to 70 percent of Ghana's population depends on traditional medicine markets for their medical care, with the Center for Plant Medicine Research seeing roughly 16,000 outpatient patients a month. Rural Ghanaians rely on traditional plant knowledge passed down by generations of Indigenous Ga and Twi tribes for three reasons: accessibility, cost, and familiarity.

The article surveys traditional plant medicine use; it does not present clinical trial data or comparative efficacy studies against Western pharmaceuticals.