OBJECTIVE The main objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between social network and pathway to service utilization among psychotic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was carried out in a psychiatric unit in a general hospital in South West Nigeria. Using structured questionnaires, primary data were collected from 652 psychotic patients on their social ...

The 19th century saw the development of an eclectic medical marketplace in both United Kingdom and States, with mesmerists, herbalists hydrotherapists amongst plethora ‘sectarians’ offering mainstream (or ‘allopathic’) medicine stiff competition. Foremost these competitors were homoeopaths, a group practitioners who followed Samuel Hahnemann (1982[1810]) prescribing highly dilute doses single-d...

Despite the thought-provoking theological and philosophical implications of the adage urging the healer to heal him/herself, medical anthropology has, with some notable exceptions, given relatively little attention to the problems of well-being experienced by healers themselves, as distinct from those of their patients. This paper focuses on the conflicts experienced by men and women who become...

Complementary medicine is a formal method of health care in most countries of the ancient world. It is expected to become more widely integrated into the modern medical system, including the medical curriculum. Despite the perception of modern medicine as more efficacious, traditional medicine continues to be practiced. More than 70% of the developing world's population still depends primarily ...

Background: In African health care system, medicinal plants are major components and most assorted of all therapeutic systems. parts rural Africa, traditional healers prescribing the easily accessible affordable resource available to local community at times only therapy that subsists. Coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) is an acute virus (SARs-coV-2) which has caused a global pandemic. This paper ...

Malaria is a serious cause of mortality globally. The disease is of regional concern in Africa and of national interest in Kenya due to its high morbidity and mortality as a result of development of resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum to many existing drugs such as chloroquine. Alternative medicine using herbal remedies are commonly used to treat malaria in Kenya. However, plants used in...

BACKGROUND Plants have been the primary source of medicines since life on earth; more than 50 % of existing cancer treatments are derived from plants. METHODS An ethnopharmacological survey of herbal remedies used in cancer treatment was carried out in the West Bank/ Palestine. A questionnaire was distributed to one hundred and fifty herbalists, traditional healers and rural dwellers. Collect...