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Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by sisisioge: 2:18pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
I wonder too...If only those students trained to produce medicines would actually look towards our home grown herbs for development , things might have been a lot better. I remember those days, leaves as simple as the mango leaves had uses, barks of different trees...How time flies. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by ascend: 2:19pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Nobody: 2:19pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Cc Sexymoma Seems u are talking from experience My take on the herbal thing is that truly it has it pros and cons, as d OP said if the Nigerian Medical Graduates can just invest on it, it would be good |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by MEILYN(m): 2:19pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
free2ryhme:Nigerian Navy Hospital, General Hospital and a few private hospitals in Lagos. My brother, I almost died. After 6 months of spending thousands of naira, I had no choice than to go with my mom to an old woman's house. Dirty streets, I was skeptical at first, but I got better after 2 weeks. Since then Ehnnn, I don't insult or doubt herbal Nigerian medications. 4 Likes |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by tarboshi(m): 2:20pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
free2ryhme: Another brainwashed mind! 4 Likes |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by osuofia2(m): 2:20pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
i commend you op for this nice piece, may God increase the ink to your pen. the issue you raised can never be over emphasized, i as an individual, i have really benefited from herbal medicine, i remember how i was saved from almost death condition by an herbalist, may God bless him where ever he is now. Back to the Topic, our pharmacist and pharmacologist graduates should think of re branding and making more research on the practice and importance of herbal medicine on Nigerians and the world populace at large. 1 Like |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by shumuel(m): 2:29pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Op, its not dead yet, but if we don't do something some, we wouldn't even know we had what is called traditional medicine in the next 20years |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Nobody: 2:30pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Pharmaceuticals manufacture diseases and provide you with so called cure at your expense. Watch what you eat and excreate and the Medics will search for another job. They are in business because the populace is ignorant that nature put every solutions to our health at the locations we were born. By the way, I dont take pharmaceutical drugs anymore, dont remember taking it for years. Whatever your health need is, look locally for organic herbal or dietary treatment. And dont wait to get sick. Get those fruits and vegs smoothied daily for optimum health. Even marijuan does magic for so many ailments if you can handle the smell, the stigma and the hallucinations. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by kevoh(m): 2:33pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
This is a serious issue. Nature has blessed us with so many herbs to explore and exploit. Our elders are dying and dying with this knowledge of various herbal knowledge. No thanks to imported religion and Nollywood that have succeeded in demonizing every thing that has attributes of being from the village . I believe there are still some young men and women out there who still have a fraction of herbal medicine knowledge they picked from their parents. Sad thing is many are reluctant to practice. Infact, wifey once told me about an old schoolmate of hers who learnt traditional medicine from her dad. She's very good at it but she's out there looking for white collar job as a graduate. Like seriously? Someone is sitting on a goldmine but prefers to turn the other face for a white collar job instead! Traditional herbal medicine should not die but evolve to be modern day medicine. The Chinese have kept their herbal medicine from going extinct nothing stops us from doing same. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by OlujobaSamuel: 2:38pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
op, nice one, this is not just about trado-med, it's more of our attitude to issues in nigeria, we are so lazy in any logical and informing arguments, politics, health, religion, economics, education, etc, the one currently sitting at the top of any sector see the advancement of anyone in such sector with a different title as a threat to his position, thus, we pull everything down without caring about who is losing more. our professionals are competing with each other, they are not seeking to provide service to humanity, masses are also too divided along different views to engage the leaders of these professions, so many wrongs in the land. 1 Like |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Nobody: 2:38pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
If our herbal medicine industry can go a step further by ensuring some of their claims undergo clinical screening before commercialization, it will increase the level of confidence in the usage of herbal drugs in Nigeria. It goes beyond claiming your drug can cure this disease or that. What of the toxicity level and other variants? Most times the herbal concoction will cure the said disease but will leave your body with as much toxic that will eventually build up into another disease. The Asian tradomedical institutions are well enhanced. All claims go through biological and clinical evaluations before they are put on shelves. That's what I expect agencies like National Natural Medicine Agency, Pharmaceutical Research Council, Departments of Pharmacognosy and NAFDAC to be doing. If these platforms are provided and properly utilized, am sure our traditional medicine subsector will be better developed. It's an interesting field. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by aimuan(m): 2:40pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Chimaritoponcho:am glad some Nigerians still reason like this.guy western medicine does more harm than good,but only few people knows this.diabetes, stroke,high bp,and host of other medical conditions has no medical cure.but they can be cured with d use of herbal medicine. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by dustydee: 2:48pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Joavid:Good article. I currently live in the west and I have seen that there are treatments that we have back home that the west does not know. I discussed with my mum about acquiring knowledge of some of these traditional medicines. I also mentioned some plants that we had in our garden and she told me the uses of those plants including bitter leaf. I used to think bitter leaf was only used for cough but now I know it has other uses. I will like to learn more about plants in the wild and probably develop them for commercial use. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Zetra(m): 2:49pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
boriswole:we always want to be looked like gods, if it was Africans that improved on medicines we would not have any institutions for its studies, it would only be on royalty or cult kind of knowledge. Just tell someone selling native medicines to teach / train you and you will pay them, you will hear words like "it was transferred to me from mum, or in village". When they do manage to teach you just small |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by bisoye11(m): 2:50pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
God Bless you OP for bringing this into writing, I believe it's not too late, we still have people all around Nigeria we deals with herbs, such as yemkem and the Oko oloyuns, what we need is government support and their is a body that regulate it, those bodies need to be given more power to operate. This is another God given naturally resource been wasted, I once a woman talked about a leaf which is capable to cure cancer and other diseases. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by bydot1(m): 3:05pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Nothing like Herbs to be honest. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by codemaniacs: 3:10pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by fkdmods: 3:13pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Joavid: Who are you blaming exactly? What you call traditional medicine is just science that Nigerians have refused to refine. Where do you think more than half of the worlds medicine come from? From herbs and plants. The only difference is that normal societies have evolved it's ways of regulating, processing, and distributing it, while Nigerians still prefer to go to iya Ngozi who plucks it from the forest. The world has evolved and you all better start evolving with it. 1 Like |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by fkdmods: 3:15pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
codemaniacs: Name the institutions. Please. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by bahaushe1: 3:15pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
sagieramos:What is this one saying? I need translator please. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by eddyline(m): 3:17pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
first off, alabukun is not a herbal drug, it is a brand of aspirin. secondly, working in a country such as Nigeria, it is almost impossible for pharmacists to come up with effective drugs that would reach up to clinical trials. no Nigerian university have a functional NMR machine what miracles are they expected to perform? while herbal medicines are no doubt effective, the problem we have over here is that of standardizing the dosage. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Teespice(f): 3:17pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
lmao. my brother is a pharmacist and he's not useless. end of story. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by codemaniacs: 3:18pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by ireneidiva(f): 3:24pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
sagieramos:Your grammar! omg! |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by firefox4th(m): 3:30pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
I fell in love with herbal becos it was it God used to deliver me from appendicites.But not after it dawned on me that orthodox did not have any panacea for it safe surgery.It was simple and nourishing herbal recipes I was given that cured d tin permanently since 1998.one tin about we nigerians is that we are too ignorant of many basic facts of nature and GOD.there was a guy that was flown to china for kidney repair only to know that the only herb administered on him for the cure was a common herb here in nigeria.again i make bold to say that no sickness under the heaven that we dont have its cure in nigeria,forget about the nomenclatures they give them and dont let them confuse you there is no dosage for them ,our herbal preparations have dosage and they are with little or no side effectsThey cure as against whites. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by jerryfisher(m): 3:30pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
ajoskele:we need government assistance to make it grow |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by fkdmods: 3:32pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
codemaniacs: In other words you don't know of any worthwhile institution which existed then that should be in existence today . |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by juman(m): 3:33pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
bisoye11: Yeah, okooloyun, yemkem etc are still doing herbal medicine. Those herbal people needs support. But in a country that has no sensible competent leaders its big problem.. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by JaySea: 3:35pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
MEILYN: Meilyn please help. My situation is similar to yours. Being treating Typhoid fever for months now. Gone to hospitals for treatment yet no cure. Spent thousands already, no respite. Deeply depressed now. Help me with the woman's contact or address please. You will be saving a life. And out of curiosity what was your ailment then? PLEASE MEILYN. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Dindondin(m): 3:53pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Joavid:crying |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Nobody: 4:03pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
free2ryhme:Yea! I wanted to kill myself, so I visited a herbalist in Imo state, who after listening to my complaint gave me three sachets of black powder and instructed me on the dosage. My dear, a dose of that dirty powder cured my sick body. This is what doctors in Ijebu ode genaral hospital and other private hospitals could not cure for the past ten years. So continue in your ignorance. |
Re: The Death Of Traditional Herbal Medicine In Nigeria by Nobody: 4:14pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
dustydee: That would be great! |
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