Traditional Medicine: A Panacea For Promoting Human Security

Among the Africans, life is regarded as the most precious gift of Supreme Being which must be protected and prolonged as much as possible. Whenever there is a threat by disease and other misfortunes, steps are taken to eliminate the sources of danger and get total security. The measures adopted by the traditionalist to ensure wholesome treatment of diseases have been criticized by foreigners and some Africans who, through education and Christianity have been influenced by Western culture. Such critics have questioned the rationale behind some aspects of traditional treatment as well as making some allegations which tend to undermine the sacred functions of the traditionalists. There are not yet enough efforts in form of systematic research to investigate this allegation among various traditional groups. The problem of this paper now remains how trues is this allegation that the measures adopted by the traditionalist are faulty and bad in their attempt to show traditional medicine, as a remarkable versatility over the centuries in meeting the wide range of human health. This paper adopts method of literary analysis with descriptive phenomenology. Arising from the findings of this paper, it is therefore recommended that, demonization of traditional medicine should stop. Because traditional medicine work better for some illness such as pile, rheumatism and so on.