How a failed eczema treatment triggered an interest in traditional medicine

Grace Nambatya Kyeyune oversees research on natural products at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute in Kampala.Grace Nambatya Kyeyune is a natural-products research scientist and director of research at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute in Kampala, which is a part of the Ugandan Ministry of Health that is dedicated to evaluating traditional medicines.

But my professional interest in traditional medicine was inspired by an eczema rash on my feet that left patches of black and white on my body when I was a university student. I hated the patches on my body. The use of modern steroid creams such as hydrocortisone failed to heal the rash. As a chemist who also had traditional knowledge, I was motivated to try traditional herbs. I visited a popular herbal clinic at the time in Kampala, with the hope that my skin challenge would be addressed.

You did a lot of benchmarking in several countries. What did you learn that you want to incorporate into traditional medicine in Uganda? I think it is better to run trials on traditional medicines that are already in use by our communities and have been used for generations with a great deal of success. Many of the traditional medicines are scientifically sound treatments. Even the large pharmaceutical companies are picking them from here to be developed into drugs, such as the Ugandan greenheart tree , extracts of which have been used to treat coughs and malaria.

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