Yoruba Traditional Medicine: A Panacea to Challenges of Global Pandemic (Covid-19)

Abstract

Global pandemic has decimated jobs and placed millions of livelihood at risk. This outbreak and its variants caused a lot of havoc socially, economically, culturally and health wise (all over the world). The main objective of this paper is to look for traditional ways of tackling this virus that wants to overwhelm the whole world. The paper does not only trace the negative effects of covid but also proffered solutions to curb this nightmare. The research methodology adopted for this study was secondary data, using Cultural Approach theory to back up the subject matter. The finding of the study reveals coronavirus as a deadly virus that can kill, steal and destroy the life of its victims. The major finding of the work proffers Yoruba traditional medicine as a cure to this global pandemic. It concludes that effective use of traditional medicine can prevent the society totally from every form of diseases. Yoruba traditional Medicine, is, therefore recommended because researches have shown that it stabilizes hormones and metabolism