This article reinterprets historical works on the history of medicine in South Africa and how present-day Afrikaner home-based healing therapies known as Boererate engage with this history. By reinterpreting historical sources, we illustrate how Boer women in concentration camps during the South African War were waging an ideological war. We argue that there is a distinction between the creolised medicines that Boer women took into the concentration camps and the body of knowledge — Boererate — that emerged from the camps after the women were released. The article brings archival research and interviews with interlocutors into conversation to show how a knowledge system like Boererate has persisted through time and become very popular in online forums and Facebook groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. The article is part of a wider project investigating Boererate in historical and diverse contemporary contexts.

本文重新解读了有关南非医学史的历史著作，以及当今南非荷兰语家庭治疗疗法 Boererate 如何进行参与这段历史。通过重新解读历史资料，我们展示了南非战争期间集中营中的布尔妇女如何发动意识形态战争。我们认为，布尔妇女带入集中营的克里奥尔药物与妇女被释放后从集中营中出现的知识体系（Boererate）之间存在区别。这篇文章将档案研究和对话者访谈带入对话中，展示了像 Boererate 这样的知识体系如何在 Covid-19 大流行期间持续存在并在在线论坛和 Facebook 群组中变得非常流行。这篇文章是一个更广泛的项目的一部分，该项目在历史和不同的当代背景下调查了 Boererate。