Female infertility: Application of Yorubic Medicine
A.ingredient
patanmo - biophytum petersianum plant
Ataare - Aframomum melegueta fruit
Awuje wewe - vigna sinensis beans
preparation fry all the ingredient to form powder.put one spoon teaspoonful of the
powder in a teacup.add hot water mix together to form liguid
dosage drink a teaspoon of the remedy once for seven days.
B. Ingredients
Ewuro odo - struchium sparganophora
ose dudu - African black soap
preparation Grind the dried leaves of struhium sparganophora.mix the powder with
black soap.
Administration wash the vigina with the concocted soap three times daily for one
month in the first instanc
Insomnia
(Airoorunsun/Aileesun)
A. Ingredients
Asofeyeje - rauvolfia vomitoria
Preparation dry fresh fish of rauvolfia vomitoria.grind to form powder put a teaspoon
of the powder in a teaspoon add hot water drink as tea at night for three days..
B. ingredient
odundun - bryophyllum pinnatum
preparation squeezwe bryophyllum pinnatum to remove extract
Administration put the juice on patient'shead or give him /her one teaspoon (5ml) of
the exract to drink at night for three days.
C.ingredients
Isapapupa - hibiscus sabdariffa
oyin igan - bee honey
preparation boil a handful of hibiscus sabdariffa with a bottle of water to form
decoction add one teacupful (200ml)at night for three days.
Irregular Mentruation
(nkan osu segesege)
Ingredients
lapalapa/botuje - jaatropha curcas seeds and leaves
Atale funfun/jinja (Ginger) - zingiber officinale
Irugbaa/iru - sheabutter
preparation and Administration prepare soup with the ingredients and eat with
cocoyam.
B. Ingredients
Oruwo - morinda lucida roots.
kannu bilala - trona
preparation grind the root of morinda lucida add little quantity of trona put it in a
teacup and add hot water
Administration take it as hot tea three times daily for two weeks
C. Ingredients
Owu/Kerewuu - gossypium barbadense leaves
preparation prepare hot decoction by boiling fresh leaves of gossypium barbadence
for thirty minutes leave the decoction to cool
dosage drink one tablespoon (15ml) of decoction daily for two weeks.
Jaundice
(Kojupon)
Ingredients
Owu/Kerewuu - Gossypium barbadence
Iyo - Table salt
Omi - Water
preparation squeeze a handful of fresh leaves of Gossypium barbadence.Mix the
paste with water and add table salt to taste.
Dosage drink one tablespoonful (15ml) of the liquid three times daily for one week.
D.Ingredients
Ahun - Alstonia boonei
Sapo - Anthocleista liebrechtsiana
preparation prepare cold extract from the barks of Alstonia boonei and
Anthicleista liebrechtisiana.
dosage take three spoonfuls (45ml) of cold extract two times daily fot three days
E. Ingredients
Dongoyaro - (neem) Azadiracha indica
Mangoro - (Mango) mangifera indica
Oganwo - Khaya grandifolia
Kaju/Kasu - (cashew) Anacardium occudental
Osan wewwe - (Lime) citrus aurantifolia
preparation remove two handful each of the barks of the plant mentioned under
ingedients put them in cooking pot slice six lime fruits and add them to be
ingredients and cook with clean water to prepare hot extract.
dosage drink three spoonfuls (45ml) of hot exrtact two times daily for three days
children should take one tablespoon of the extract three times daily for three days.
malaria patients should eat fruit and vegetable and drink a lot of water during
medication .
Measles
(ile tutu/Eyi/Olobe
A.Ingredients
Bomubomu - Calotropis procera
Ewa/Eree - vignia unguiculata
preparation cook beans with leaves of calotropis procera for five minutes
Administration eat as meal three times once a year .
B.Ingredients
Reere - cassia occidentalis leaves
Ewa/Eree - vignia unguiculata
preparation cook beans with fresh leaves of cassia occidentalis.remove the leaves
from the beans.
Administration eat the beans three times for only one week.
C. Ingredients
Rinrin - peperonia pellucid plant
ewuro - vernonia amygdalina leaves
Osun - pterocarpus osun
preparation squeeze peperomia pellucid plant and leaves of vernonia amygdalina.
remove the extract.add camwood.
Administration rub the affected body with the paste in episode of measles.
D. Ingredients
imi esu/Apasa - ageratum conyzoides leaves
osun - pterocarpus osun
preparation squeeze a handful of Ageratum conyzoides leaves.Add camwood to the
extract.
Administration rub the affected part three times daily for five days.
Mental Problem
(Arun Opolo)
ingredients
Asofeyeje - rauvolfia vomitoria
preparation boil the leavesof rauvolfia vomitoria in hot water to remove the extract
Administration drink a teacupful (240ml)at night for one week
Mentruation (with pain)
ingredient
osan wewe - citrus aurantifolia roots and leaves
preparation cook the roots and the leaves of citrus aurantifolia to form decoction .
Administration take one tablespoonful (15ml) of decoction two times daily for three
times daily for three days
Periodic enlargement of female breast in pseudo pregnancy
(somuroro)
ingredients
lapalapa pupa -jatropha gossypiifolia seeds
lapalapa funfun - jatropha curcascseeds
ori amo - vitelaria paradoxa
praparation grind a handful of red and white jatropha seeds add shea butter to form
cream .
Administration Apply to the nipples.
pile
(jedijedi)
A.ingredients
Aidan/ Aridan toroo - cassia sieberiana steam
preparation cut the steam of cassia sieberiana into pieces.put them inside a bottle
and add clean water leave it for three days to ferment .
dosage drink one tablespoonful (15ml) of decoction once daily for three days
B. ingredients
Efinrin nla - ocimum gratissimum leaves
Ewuro - vernomia amagdalina leaves
Iyo - salt
preparation grind both scent and bitter leaves to form paste.Add some quantity of
water to form liquid .Add little quantity of salt to taste.
dosage Take one spoonful (15ml) of decoction three times daily for three days.
C.Ingredients
Bara/Egusi - cuuuuucumeropsis mannii
opon oyinbo - Ananas comosus juice
preparation cook one melon pod .extract juice from one pineappple fruit .mix juice
with cooked melon pod .
Administration Eat the recipe as vegetable soup.
D.Ingredients
Efinrin nla - Ocimum gratissimum
Iyere - piper capense
ata wewe - capsicum annuum
eja aro - cat fish
Epo pupa - palm oil
Iyo - salt
preparation prepare vegetable soup with the ingredients Eat with rice, beans,or ripe
plantain with soup.
E. Ingredients
Ejinrin wewe - momordica charantia
Iyeye - spondias mombin
preparation cook a handful of the leaves of momordica charantia and spondias
mombin.add little salt to taste
dosage take one teacupful (200ml) of the recipe early in the morning before food for
three days.
pimples (irore/rore)
A.ingredients
oronbo wewe - citrus aurantifolia
ose dudu - african black soap
preparation collect about twenty lime fruits. cut them into pieces.dry them in the
sun.grind to form powder .mix three tablespoonfuls of the decoction into a handful of
black soap.
Administration bathe with the concocted soap every morning for four weeks.
b. ingredients
oronbo wewe - citrus aurantifolia
Eti erin - aloe vera
oyin igan - bee honey
ose dudu - black soap
preparation collect about twenty lime fruits,cutbthem into pieces and dry
them.collect about six rhizomes of aloe vera and remove the bark.grind the
ingredients to paste add a glasscupful of bee honey.mix them with a handful of black
soap
Administration Bathe with the concocted soap every morning for one month.
Post-coital seminal Expulsion
(EDA)
Ingredients
ipin/Epin - fiscus exasperata leaves
preparation dry the leaves of ficus exasperata.grind them to form powder put one
tablespoonful (30ml) of the concoction every morning for two weeks.
Rheumatism
(lakuregbe)
ingredients
rinrin - peperomia pellucida
preparation grind a handful of peperomia pellucida leaves and add shea butter to
form cream
Administration rub or massage the affected part three times daily for two weeks in
the first instance.
Scorpion sting
(oro akeekee)
ingredients
Emile - Euphorbia hirta
Atare - Aframomum melegueta
preparation grind the steam of Euphorbia hirta with nine seeds of Aframomum
melegueta to form powder. make three light cuts round the upper part of the affected
part. Apply the powder to the scarification.
Skin Rashes
(Kokoro awo ara)
ingredients
enu operi - euphorbia lateriflora
ilasa omode - urena lobata
ose dudu - African black soap
preparation grind a handful of the two herbs to form paste mix the paste with handful
of black soap .
Administration bathe with the soap once daily
warning this concocted soap is a strong anti-septic remedy that can turn the hair to
gray colour .for this reason do not wash the head with soap
B. ingredients
Eyun - cissus petiolata leaves
Laa - ricinus communis leaves
preparation grind the ingredients to form powder
Dosage put the one tablespoonful (15ml) of the powder in a teacupful of water Drink
as tea repeat the medication for two weeks.
Skin diseases
(Arun ara)
A.Ingredients
Bomubomu - calotropis procera
ori - shea butter
preparation: Grind calotropis procera leaves and add shea butter to form cream .
Administration Apply to the skin everyday for one month
B. ingredients
Eti erin - Aloa vera
oyin igan - bee honey
preparation macerate four leaves of aloe vera after removing green outer part . Add
some quantity of bee honey to the paste to form cream
Administration use it to form cream everyday.
