The name of Jelili Ifagbamila rings a bell in the area of providing alternative medicine for the treatment of chronic diseases in Nigeria.
He has over the years used his wealth of experience in the field of traditional medicine to treat Nigerians suffering from chronic diseases. No wonder, both men and women suffering from chronic diseases and infertility are daily thronging his house to seek for solution to their myriad of health issues.
Apart from using alternative medicine for treatment of chronic diseases; he is also a diviner who provide spiritual assistance to people with different spiritual problems.
Ifagbamila is one of the few traditional healers who believe that traditional African medicine is an alternative medicine discipline involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically involving diviners and herbalists.
According to him, practitioners of traditional African medicine have been providing cure to various chronic diseases and diverse conditions such as cancers, psychiatric disorders, high blood pressure, cholera, most venereal diseases, epilepsy, asthma, eczema, fever, anxiety, depression, benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary tract infections, gout, and healing of wounds and burns and even Ebola.
Diagnosis according to him, is reached through spiritual means and a treatment is prescribed, usually consisting of a herbal remedy that is considered to have not only healing abilities but also symbolic and spiritual significance.
“Traditional African medicine, with its belief that illness is not derived from chance occurrences, but through spiritual or social imbalance, differs greatly from modern scientific medicine, which is technically and analytically based. In the 21st century, modern pharmaceuticals and medical procedures remain inaccessible to large numbers of African people due to their relatively high cost and concentration of health facilities in urban centres.”
He added that before the establishment of science-based medicine, traditional medicine was the dominant medical system for millions of people in Africa but the arrival of the Europeans was a noticeable turning point in the history of this ancient tradition and culture.
He can be reached on this number: 08033880331