#traditional-medicine

#traditional-medicine

In Nigeria, pangolins are primarily hunted for their meat, which is considered a delicacy, overshadowing the illegal trade in their scales for traditional medicine.

What we do offer here are both Western health care practices as well as traditional health care practices. The main purpose of all of that is... vital to their health and well-being.

Though not illegal, the intravaginal use of taba, a modified powdered tobacco, poses health dangers, with many women believing it enhances sexual pleasure despite warnings.

'The fact that these anti-diabetic properties are known in traditional practices validates the Indigenous science that existed well before Western knowledge systems,' Cohall says.