SEC-S16 / W5 | " Ancient Medicine"🌍👩⚕️

Before the Advent of patent or otherwise known as Orthodox medicine, humans have always found a way to treat ailments from minor to major ones with the use of natural substances.

This contest hosted by @healthysteem is going to guide us as I explain more on this theme of Ancient Medicine.

In your country, ¿what type of ancient medicine did they perform?

Just like I mentioned, before the advent of modern medicine, our forefathers have always found out ways to treat ailments. They have been able to do this with roots and herbs of various trees and plants.

The Yourubas tend to be blessed with the knowledge of roots and herbs and what they are used to cure, the Igbos, Hausas and other minor groups also have their own forms of homeopathical form of medicine not attached to any superstitious belief. Sometimes, these treatments are done using nuts and berries, things that we eat on a daily basis.

These ancient medicines were used to treat issues like

° infections

° Cleansing of the stomach

° prostrate issues

° Blood clotting issues

° Malaria and typhoid

° Hepatitis

° Bone fractures and dislocations

etc

¿Can you give your honest opinion according to your beliefs? (your point of view is valuable to us)

I would honestly say that those medicines worked for them and is still being used till today. I still remembered when I was bitten by a dog, I was taken to an elderly man known for treatments of such, he just went to his backyard, got some leaves, squeezed the juice from the leaves and gave me to drink. On my way home, I vomited the dog poison out and that was all. It was very effective.

So I would say, it worked even though it has its own limitations just like orthodox medicine also have today.

¿Can you describe some elements they used at the time? What was the special use of each one?

I don't know all the roots, herbs, leaves and even nuts used for such traditional medicine, since they are most at times passed on from one generation to the other. Other times too, a person can learn it from these ones who inherited it.

I know a few of these and would be mentioning the below.

^ Bitterleaf - the juice from this leaf is most at times used as a bowel cleanser. It is usually bitter and can be used to cook soup. Apart from being used as a cleanser, it has so much nutritional content which it gives to the body.

^ Scent Leaf - the juice extracted from this leaf serve as a blood cleanser, helping to purify the blood. It is also used as spices while cooking and very good for healthy living.

	This is scent leaf

^ Traditional Igbo Kolanut - This kolanut performs the work of hydrogen peroxide used to stop the flow of blood. If a person have a large cut, just get some good quantity, chew it very well and place it on the surface of the wound, after sometime, blood will stop rushing out from there.

^ Pawpaw seed, pawpaw leaf, lemon leaf and other condiments are cooked together for the treatment of malaria and typhoid depending on what was used.

	this is pawpaw leaf

There are many of them, but I will stop here for today.

Design a scenario about ''Ancient medicine''

I have mentioned the case of using this ancient medicine to cure dog bite and the poison being vomited out just somee minutes after t along the medicine.

I also had a first hand experience of using the chewed kolanut to stop blood flow as first aid before being taken to the hospital to stitch the wound together.

I also had a serious wound at my elbow. The wound could.not be treated despite having gone to so many hospitals.
Finally, an elderly man used some herbs to treat it within a short time.

These are great examples of the efficacy of the ancient medicine.

Conclusion

Ancient medicine is good if you are opportuned to meet and know an expert in it. It helped in those days when orthodox was not available and even till today. Happily, it has be recognized as a form of medical treatment in my country.

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