Secret remedies in Congo

Thanks to Michelle Mahlik, we now have electronic copies of the first section of an incredibly interesting and unpublished document of Traditional Healer remedies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Several little booklets were entrusted to me several years ago on one of my visits to the Congo (then Zaire).  The young Traditional Healer who gave them to me said he and his cohorts wanted to share information in the hopes they could verify or improve their treatment practices.  An excerpt from the first section reads:
[Note: grammar and spelling has been preserved as written]
"When a traditional healer is using the herds to heal the patients, people look at him as a devil and illiterate.  He is not even accepted neither could he mix with members of certain congregations.  The reason why these traditional healers are rejected is that they scare people with their type of dressing they put on.  They even stop using Bemba, a language everybody understands, but speak something else people fail to understand.  This makes I difficult for the patients to know the type of medicine the traditional healers use, it is their secret."
Stay tuned for the next installment!