Anselm Adodo 
Nature Power [EPUB ebook] 
Natural Medicine in Tropical Africa

When Nature Power was first published twelve years ago, the practice of herbal medicine in Nigeria and in most parts of Africa was identified with witchcraft, sorcery, ritualism, and all sorts of fetish practices. Because herbal medicine was associated with paganism, African Christians secretly patronize traditional healers, and the educated elite and religious figures did not want to be associated in any way with traditional African medicine. Nature Power, like a lonely voice in a wilderness, was written to correct the misconception that African herbal medicine is synonymous with paganism, ritualism, and fetishism.

Since its publication, Nature Power has been reprinted more than eight times. It has contributed immensely in changing the attitudes of both the government and Christians toward the practice of herbal medicine. Nature Power has also helped show that health is more than an absence of disease. Health is wholeness of mind, soul, and body. Much of the information in this book is age-old secrets, which herbalists keep close to their chests. I have made them available here so that humanity may profit from them.

O autorze

Anselm Adodo is a Benedictine priest with over twenty years’ experience of research in the fields of philosophy, theology, anthropology, ethnobotany, and medical sociology. He is the director of Nigeria’s foremost phytomedicine research institute, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories. Fr. Adodo is a public health consultant, community health economist, and an advocate of new thinking on health care and health policy reform in Africa.