ABSTRACT

Covid-19 is a global pandemic that is causing havoc throughout the world. African traditional medicine is the oldest, and perhaps the most varied, of all curative systems. This work looked at those various Igbo traditional healing methods that can be used as an alternative means of curbing Covid-19. The study was carried out in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The results of this study revealed that traditional Igbo healing method is well accepted and has played a key role in the health care of the people of Southeast. Findings from this research show that Igbo traditional health care system has enjoyed patronage from local people who believe in it and consider it a more affordable and effective alternative to western medicine. Accordingly, they are found in Igboland, plants with medicinal values, which have shown a wide range of uses in the treatment of diseases such fever/malaria, parasitic, viral and bacterial diseases including musculoskeletal and reticular diseases. Presently, the coronavirus seems to have surpassed all manner of scientific efforts to curb the pandemic, hence the need to give room to traditional remedies such as that of the Igbos becomes imperative. Keywords: Covid-19, Igbo traditional medicine, virus, diseases
Publication date: 01/12/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.12.5770