free2ryhme:
Herbal drug is dead because has no dosage limits, produced conditions that are not hygienic, vendors are not registered and certified, they have no form of regulation

Except you want to kill yourself u patronize them at your own risk

This problem with stupid dirty black Africans, they fool to the bone.... Its only in Nigeria that our herbs considered bad, dirty and dangerous.

Go to India... Mexico ... Japan .. China etc ... Our biggest problem is accepting the scam called Christianity

ajoskele:
.Someone said when the Brits colonized India and Nigeria, the Indians rejected their language, food, clothes, religion and other British culture.
They only embraced their technology.

But Nigeria accepted their language(some would be talking through their noses like the Queen herself), their food(someone cannot eat eba/garri with hands again), clothes(I once wore a fine ankara to campus on a Monday morning and my girl didn't walk with me all day), religion(if you don't go to church on Sunday, consider yourself a devil re-incarnate) and other British lifestyles.

Sadly, we rejected their technology.

Wow. Indians really did all that!!!

princejayboss:


This problem with stupid dirty black Africans, they fool to the bone.... Its only in Nigeria that our herbs considered bad, dirty and dangerous.

Go to India... Mexico ... Japan .. China etc ... Our biggest problem is accepting the scam called Christianity

There are more Indian foreign Doctors in the US than any other nationality.

Why do you think almost all Indian parents want their children to be Medical Doctors or Engineers

It is easy to presume a lot of things, but facts rule.

Nice points op but in a way you contradict yourself, are you saying authoritatively that noting good comes out of those herbal products sold at the bus stop? And when you talk about medicines with gin,do you know that there are some herbs that must go through extraction with alcohol for utmost efficacy?

I need to start learning from grandfather

so what traditional drug(s) will help with cancer, appendicitis, different stds, and the numerous exotic diseases and ailments out there. True, a lot of modern drugs and treatment methods have some nasty and often more destructive side effects, but traditional medicine cannot solve up to 1/100 of the numerous ailments out there

[quote author=ajoskele post=52583750].Someone said when the Brits colonized India and Nigeria, the Indians rejected their language, food, clothes, religion and other British culture.
They only embraced their technology.

But Nigeria accepted their language(some would be talking through their noses like the Queen herself), their food(someone cannot eat eba/garri with hands again), clothes(I once wore a fine ankara to campus on a Monday morning and my girl didn't walk with me all day), religion(if you don't go to church on Sunday, consider yourself a devil re-incarnate) and other British lifestyles.

Sadly, we rejected their technology.[/quote

You're wrong on many counts, India has 2 official languages: Hindu and English
They accepted parts of their culture they wanted and discarded the rest.
Your girl is an olodo for not walking with you when you wore ankara (and i do not really believe that part; nobody is that stupid)
India is the mostculturally diverse country in the world, down the lines of language and religion and they have accepted different denominations of Christianity, Islam, besides their local religions.
The clothes were also copied and a lot more

I get that you are trying to be funny make a point, but it is good to be truthful:

Nigerian have imbibed all sorts of cultures, but we have not lost our food, there are lots of traditional worshippers in different parts, we all just don't really pay attentions to them.

I just can't give details but please before you state your point of view, conduct adequate research and state facts and not your opinion

EmekaBlue:
I still drink agbo jedijedi o

Do you know the contents of the agbo jedi jedi. I know a person that got very sick because of it, he also died. He was treated in America because of it. They had to cut out a section of his stomach and fix it somehow{ i don't know the exact procedure but that is my understanding of it}

ziga:


Wow. Indians really did all that!!!

its not true

ajoskele:
.Someone said when the Brits colonized India and Nigeria, the Indians rejected their language, food, clothes, religion and other British culture.
They only embraced their technology.

But Nigeria accepted their language(some would be talking through their noses like the Queen herself), their food(someone cannot eat eba/garri with hands again), clothes(I once wore a fine ankara to campus on a Monday morning and my girl didn't walk with me all day), religion(if you don't go to church on Sunday, consider yourself a devil re-incarnate) and other British lifestyles.

Sadly, we rejected their technology.

You're wrong on many counts, India has 2 official languages: Hindu and English
They accepted parts of their culture they wanted and discarded the rest.
Your girl is an olodo for not walking with you when you wore ankara (and i do not really believe that part; nobody is that stupid)
India is the mostculturally diverse country in the world, down the lines of language and religion and they have accepted different denominations of Christianity, Islam, besides their local religions.
The clothes were also copied and a lot more

I get that you are trying to be funny make a point, but it is good to be truthful:

Nigerian have imbibed all sorts of cultures, but we have not lost our food, there are lots of traditional worshippers in different parts, we all just don't really pay attentions to them.

I just can't give details but please before you state your point of view, conduct adequate research and state facts and not your opinion

What if I tell someone here that I haven't taken paracetamol in almost a decade am sure no one would believe me what most people don't know is that nature has been imbedded with the right mechanism to protect and heal us all you just need to do is look well and be patient and i swear to God you would see the wonder's herbal medicines would do for you

sexymoma:
u go learn from dia hand dem go compensate you with witch
unto say u be dia favorite

Hahahahaha nah so oo

princejayboss:


This problem with stupid dirty black Africans, they fool to the bone.... Its only in Nigeria that our herbs considered bad, dirty and dangerous.

Go to India... Mexico ... Japan .. China etc ... Our biggest problem is accepting the scam called Christianity

When was the last time you took a herbal concortion for common headache hypocrite!

Why is there more Indian doctors in the US than Nigerians? Japan and China are among the countries with the highest longevity in age, environment is a contributing factor not herbal medicine

venai:
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.

What are the chemical components for each dosage?

JaySea:


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.

Please email me on nairaland. I will direct you to the woman..

I understand your plight my people, I am a Medicinal Chemist myself (first degree in Pharmacy). It is extremely frustrating, time-consuming to do such research in Nigeria. There are no equipment, solvents are very costly amongst several other problems. But some of us are still trying our best, you can surf the net and see myriads of research work done on Nigerian plants.

Thanks and God bless.

free2ryhme:


When was the last time you took a herbal concortion for common headache hypocrite!

Why is there more Indian doctors in the US than Nigerians? Japan and China are among the countries with the highest longevity in age, environment is a contributing factor not herbal medicine

My dear.. I just left Nigeria on the 2nd of January back to my base with my family, whenever we are back I often take herbs cos for me it works on me better than the white medication.. I still have some with me and that will take me through to easter as I visit Nigeria at least two times a year

ziga:


There are more Indian foreign Doctors in the US than any other nationality.

Why do you think almost all Indian parents want their children to be Medical Doctors or Engineers

It is easy to presume a lot of things, but facts rule.

Have you been to Iñdia , China and Japan ?

chiefoluigwe:


You're wrong on many counts, India has 2 official languages: Hindu and English
They accepted parts of their culture they wanted and discarded the rest.
Your girl is an olodo for not walking with you when you wore ankara (and i do not really believe that part; nobody is that stupid)
India is the mostculturally diverse country in the world, down the lines of language and religion and they have accepted different denominations of Christianity, Islam, besides their local religions.
The clothes were also copied and a lot more

I get that you are trying to be funny make a point, but it is good to be truthful:

Nigerian have imbibed all sorts of cultures, but we have not lost our food, there are lots of traditional worshippers in different parts, we all just don't really pay attentions to them.

I just can't give details but please before you state your point of view, conduct adequate research and state facts and not your opinion

Bros, check your BP oo.

1. What is the official language in India? Is it even Hindu?
The official language in Indian is Hindi and the subsidiary language is English. They still have over 20 official languages.

2. When I said my babe would not walk with me because I was on a native attire on a Monday, I thought a reasonable person would get what I literarily meant. Bros, you are a literary olodo.

3. Do you know the percentage of christians in India before they were colonized and now? Do you know that of Nigeria before the Britons came and after they left? That's an assignment for an olodo like you.

You, and people like you, are the problems of this nation.
Why are you not paying attention to traditional worshippers?
Why are you a christian or a muslim?
Why are you not courageous enough to worship Osun or Sango or Ogun?
You do not even know the major religions in India and you are telling me to visit google?
Bros, yu noh well well ahswear

Joavid:
1. In reality, western medicines has done a lot of good, especially to us Africans but it's not enough to totally discard our traditional medicine.

2. Part of my aim for this thread is to highlight how our pharmacists and pharmacologists are being useless as well as the university that produces them.

3. I read an article about the guy that invented alabukun, that pain killer, yea, y'all know it. it's made from herb extracts and it works. So, my rants below is partly as a result of that article and ofcourse the recession.

If there was something I never took as a child, it was the white man's medicine.
I remember following my mum to an old woman's little wooden shop to get some herbs and barks when anyone of us got sick. After my mum would list out the symptoms to her, the old woman would smile and gather some herbs, or seeds, barks, hand it over to my mum with some instructions on how to brew it and the dosage. My mum would do as instructed and within a few days, the sickness is gone. She always had a tomtom handy to gift me with whenever I finished my dosage.
The old woman always complained about not having anyone committed who would learn from her.

What we see around today that is been paraded as herbal medicine is a mediocre to what it really is.(I mean, those bottled herbal gin) So it's important everyone understands that when we make reference to herbal medicines we are not talking about the bottled 'bitters' mixed with alcohol and packed in unappealing bottles. We are not talking about the ones hawked at the bus stops in various colours in transparent plastic bottles.
We are talking about the ones our ancestors had and passed on to our parents.

Why then have we dumped it totally for a white man's medicine? That's treating your diabetes problem and probably breeding the ground for another bigger disease?

Why do we import malaria medicines from India when we have thousands of pharmacy/pharmacology graduates in the country who can learn from this native herbs, modernise it and do what they were trained to do?

And errm, the old woman I mentioned earlier is dead, and her vast knowledge of herbs, died with her.

#rantover!

No, Traditional Herbal Medicine is not dead. There are several educated and professional herbalists trained in Nigeria and abroad who work in Nigeria.

Ife has a BSc program in herbal medicine and many pharmacy departments in Nigerian universities have done and are doing lots of work in this direction. So are some private companies and charities. The WHO has programmes and projects. for traditional medicine. Some State Ministries of Health have Boards of Traditional Medicine in the country.

The problem is government's lack of seriousness and the resistance of for profit Big Pharma.

government policies, education sector and private individuals can help encourage herbal medicine.

This Op is wicked ooooooo. she just want to yeye our pharmacists that sell drugs in Papa Chukwudi & Son Chemist store, after many years in d universities
On a serious note this should be a wakeup call to our people who claim to be graduate/professionals in science relate fields to reality.they should stop claiming title they don't deserved. common fever they will be calling different names to put fear in someone's mind.
Doctor go forget surgical tray and scissors in somebody belle.
Mechanical engineer no sabi where brake pad dey inside motor generator spoil dem go dey look for mechanic.
Civil engineer don't know to set blocks.
Electrical engineer nko can't even wire his own house
If they really know their worth they would have been creating jobs and Nigeria would be than dis

One funny thing about this Yoruba Medicine is that the tin no dey get Dosage..
Like mum used to say.. "Shaa maa gbemu Laaro, Losan ati Lale" Continue to drink it morning, afternoon and night

Its Up to us to Upgrade it, Package it and Market it..

But NO, we'ld rather pray to God for Miracle and depend on white drugs for Healing..

Nigerians dont know how to posses and tap into their own creation..

you benefitted from her, so y did you not learn the medicine making from her ? you let her die with it now you're complaining.

princejayboss:


My dear.. I just left Nigeria on the 2nd of January back to my base with my family, whenever we are back I often take herbs cos for me it works on me better than the white medication.. I still have some with me and that will take me through to easter as I visit Nigeria at least two times a year

Nobody is disputing the potency of herbal drugs

How much research is being done to make it potent is what important? Why can't it be documented like other drugs you take. Why can't it be tested for potency to meet international standard?

These are many more must be the questions to ask.

Just like you have school of scienec and engineering and you can't even boast of a car manufacturing facility in this country just quacks

We must develop it to meet int'l standard

this herbal medicine can be an industry on its own providing employment to a vast majority of people.

but you know what?
our small small mentality will not make it happen.

NB: Nature has endowed naija with all kinds of herbs, the ones for relaxing, healing wounds, increase blood cells (anti-anaemia), even the ones for you to get high >>>opium, antimalaria, antityphoid and so on, the list is endless.

Traditional medicine

chiefoluigwe:


Do you know the contents of the agbo jedi jedi. I know a person that got very sick because of it, he also died. He was treated in America because of it. They had to cut out a section of his stomach and fix it somehow{ i don't know the exact procedure but that is my understanding of it}

chai....but its not a common case...maybe d person was over consuming it or a bad mixture of it

MEILYN:
Please email me on nairaland. I will direct you to the woman..

Mail sent. Eagerly waiting.

Billyonaire:
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.

1000 likes. I agree totally.