A lot of emphasis is often placed on modern governance systems and little or no attention is given to traditional governance practices which remain largely undocumented. The study aimed at finding out important traditional and modern governance practices that regulate traditional medicine sector in Western Kenya. The study was carried out in selected market centres of Western Kenya where the identified traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) sell their traditional medicine. All consenting TMPs and professional experts were interviewed with the aid of a semi-structured questionnaire. Purposive sampling design with elements of snowball techniques was employed in tracing competent traditional medicine (TM) experts and relevant professional experts. The data collected was processed in Microsoft Excel and descriptive statistics performed. Pearson’s chi-square statistics was carried out to determine the significance of the traditional and modern governance data sets using the STATA software. Modern governance practices were not significantly different in all the market centres surveyed (p = 0.080). Equally, the traditional governance practices were also not significantly different in all the selected market centres (p = 1.000). Traditional governance practices play an important role in the governance of traditional medicine and are shaped by the socio-cultural beliefs of the local communities. Modern governance practices, on the other hand, are widely perceived as top downregulation of the traditional medicine growing industry.

中文翻译：

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肯尼亚西部选定当地市场的传统医学和草药治理。


人们通常非常重视现代治理体系，而很少或根本不关注传统治理实践，而传统治理实践在很大程度上仍然没有记录。该研究旨在找出管理肯尼亚西部传统医学部门的重要传统和现代治理实践。这项研究是在肯尼亚西部选定的市场中心进行的，其中确定的传统医学从业者 (TMP) 在那里销售他们的传统药物。借助半结构化问卷，对所有同意的 TMP 和专业专家进行了访谈。采用滚雪球技术的有针对性的抽样设计来追踪合格的传统医学专家和相关专业专家。收集的数据在 Microsoft Excel 中进行处理并进行描述性统计。使用 STATA 软件进行 Pearson 卡方统计以确定传统和现代治理数据集的显着性。所有接受调查的市场中心的现代治理实践均无显着差异 (p = 0.080)。同样，所有选定市场中心的传统治理实践也没有显着差异 (p = 1.000)。传统治理实践在传统医学治理中发挥着重要作用，并受到当地社区社会文化信仰的影响。另一方面，现代治理实践被广泛认为是对传统医药种植行业的最高监管。