Croyances et médecine traditionnelle en Afrique du Nord

Our beliefs are a part of our humanity, at the same time witness of our disarray and hope of our multiple expectations. These are the foundation of our happiness quest, this perpetual wait with an uncertain outcome but so much reassuring. Among these diverse beliefs, some constitute pillars of the traditional medicine. A medicine defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.” [1]. In this article, we'll evoke successively cultural sediments left by various occupants of North Africa, the place of religious beliefs, representations of the disease, various actors of the cure and finally treatments.