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Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a nice day. Its once again an engaging week for us all. Today I bring to you all an interesting contest topic I'm going to be writing on; "My Traditional Medicine"

TRADITIONAL MEDICINES

Traditional medicines are herbal mixtures and portions used in treating certain illness and diseases. It is adopted mostly by people in the rural areas because it is easy to acquire the ingredients used in such medicines. Traditional medicines are mostly preferred by a wide range of people because it is a natural cure. It makes use of natural ingredients that can be easily found in nature or in a natural environment such as forest, bushes, trees, plants and so on.
Also, most traditional medicine has a little or no side effects unlike many synthetic drugs that are usually associated with a lot of side effects. And that is one of the reasons why many people prefer using traditional medicines.

NAMES OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINES

Most traditional medicines in my locality are made from natural herbal ingredients. Some include;

GINGER: This is a herbal ingredients found naturally. It has many names ranging from gangamau in hausa, atale in yoruba and many more. It serves a herbal spice and cure for cold, catarrh, chest problems, bronchitis and throat problems.

MISTLETOE LEAVES: Mistletoe is a parasitic plants that usually grows on another tree. It is very helpful and good in the treatment of blood pressure (both high and low) and diabetes

STINGING NETTLE (URTICA DIOCA): It is a blood building and cleansing herb. It helps in reducing the sugar content in the blood. It corrects inflammation and problems associated with passage and suppression of urine. Sting nettle tea when used for a long time for about four to five weeks helps in reducing liver, gall bladder problems and spleen disorder.

Other herbal ingredients and traditional medicines include; native soap (sabulu nsolo in hausa, nchankota in igbo),lime oranges(lemu sami in hausa), scent leaf, lemon grass, dogonyaro leaves and so on.

SOME TRADITIONAL RECIPES

There are many traditional recipes for curing a variety of diseases.
Below are some steps for making a traditional recipe used in curing diabetes.
STEP 1: Gather all your ingredients, which include; bitter leave, scent leave and garlic.

STEP 2: Cut the bitter leave and scent leave and squeeze with little water.

STEP 3: Filter and grind garlic on it and warm it.

Your traditional recipe for curing diabetes is ready to be taken every morning and night for probably a month.

BENEFITS OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINES

Traditional medicines has many benefits, they are

• They help in curing many illnesses and diseases that cannot be cured using synthetic drugs
• They have natural healing properties and as so are more effective and healthy for the body
• They are uses in treating poisons and other toxic substances which most times is out of range for modern drugs.
• The cost of acquiring the herbal ingredients,making the recipe or even purchasing the medicine is minimal compared to most modern drugs.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, Traditional medicine is a very effective and efficient way of treating certain illness and diseases with very minimal cost and little or no side effect, with no negative consequences or effect whatsoever.

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