Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (No. 23 of 2002).

This Act regulates traditional and alternative medicines practice and establishes the Traditional and Alternative Health Practice Council. The functions of the Council shall generally be to monitor, regulate, promote, support the development of traditional medicine and to implement the provisions of the Act and in particular shall, among other things, provide for the protection of Tanzanian medicinal plants, and other natural resources of medicinal value, such as animals, minerals, aquatic and marine products including their parts thereof. It shall protect medicinal plants grown within the country and provide for sustainable management, utilization and development of material medical used in traditional medicine, mostly plants. Also the Minister shall be instrumental in the protection of medicinal plants by establishing or strengthening the national medicinal plants databank or compendiums.