Medicine+Men

Katy S. **Medicine Men: ** were Nigeria's natural and spiritual doctors. They practiced mixing and combining different herbs to administer to a patient. They are also known to be called "witch doctors" by Western Cultures.

Key Ideas · Medicine Men cure both physical and mental diseases. · They carried "Kit of objects" around with them for healings. · Healing consists of extracting the substance from the body. · Healings were meant for achieving mental and spiritual health. · Even today, people in Nigeria ask these doctors for help and healings.
 * Examples: medical plants, marked stones, hallucinogenics, and even 'material' from the doctor's body were used for cures.
 * Each object was used to perform different rituals to the body.
 * Patients would be sucked, squeezed, pulled, and various other ways to extract the disease.
 * Sometimes, an actual object is removed from a patient!
 * Symbolic objects would only be extracted in this special case.

NOTE: There is national health care in Nigeria today.



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