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In the culture of the San (also known as Ju/'oansi, !Kung, or Bushmen), an indigenous people of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Angola, healers administer a wide range of practices, from oral remedies containing plant and animal material, making cuts on the body and rubbing in 'potent' substances, inhaling smoke of smouldering organic matter like certain twigs or animal dung, wearing parts of animals or 'jewellery' that 'makes them strong.'[1] Anecdotal records reveal that the Khoikhoi and San people have used Sceletium tortuosum since ancient times as an essential part of the indigenous culture and materia medica.[2] The trance dance is one of the most distinctive features of San culture.[3]
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- ^ Manganyi, Madira Coutlyne; Bezuidenhout, Cornelius Carlos; Regnier, Thierry; Ateba, Collins Njie (2021-04-28). "A Chewable Cure "Kanna": Biological and Pharmaceutical Properties of Sceletium tortuosum". Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 26 (9): 2557. doi:10.3390/molecules26092557. ISSN 1420-3049. PMC 8124331. PMID 33924742.
- ^ Holy People of the World: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. Phyllis G. Jestice. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 2004. p. 764. ISBN 1-85109-649-3. OCLC 57407318.
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