We will not be explaining the procedure of making the various home remedies. Herbal medicines in african traditional medicine intechopen. The traditional healer provides health care services based on culture, religious background, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that are prevalent in his community. Traditional medicine is a widely and rapidly growing health. African traditional medicine is a form of holistic health care system organized into three levels of specialty, namely divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. List and uses of medicinal plants in nigeria in 2019 legit.
For millennia, people around the world have healed the sick with herbal or animalderived remedies, handed down through generations. The prevalence of traditional medicine use and orthodox and traditional. Download free research project topics and materials in nigeria. Department of botany, university of ibadan, ibadan, nigeria. Civil servants, self employed herb sellers, traditional medicine practitioners and farmers. Nigeria, the ratio of traditional health practitioners to the population was 1. In africa and asia, 80 per cent of the population still uses traditional remedies rather than modern medicine for primary healthcare. The devel opment of traditional medicine in nigeria has led to various categories of healers, the various healing methods, strategies and medicines or remedies now known. Corresponding author abstract the paper presents swot analysis of traditional medicine tm in nigeria using various results in scientific research and.
Herbal medicine in nigeria is gaining more recognition, and this is seen in how much inquiries people make concerning home remedies and traditional medicine. The history of traditional medicine in ancient ethnic nigeria as in most. It is commonplace to see traditional healers dressed in certain peculiar attires, with head bands, feathers, and eyes painted with native chalk. Pdf combined orthodox and traditional medicine use among. In this article, we will only be listing some of the popular medicinal plants and their uses. The biggest problem with herbal medicine in nigeria is a lack of standardization and safety regulations 4 the quantity and quality of the safety and efficacy data on traditional medicine are far. Concurrent use of herbal and orthodox medicines among. The contributions of african traditional medicine to nigerias health. Illness is regarded as having both natural and supernatural causes and. Comparative phytochemical and nutritional composition of trichosanthes cucumerina l. Fulltext pdf fulltext epub doaj xml pubmed xml citationris. This gives credence to the fact that people patronise traditional medicine practitioners tmps for their primary health needs more.
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