Hello ladies and gentlemen of these prestigious health community on hive, prestigious in the sense that our health precedes every other thing in life and it's very important and necessary that we don't joke over it, taking good care pf our health is very profound cause every other thing is tied to it, recall the last time you fell sick, nothing at all made sense to you, you were restless, disturbed and worried, so lets be mindful of our wellbeing.
About this week's quest which is a very funny one tho, just remind about my childhood days with lots of funny local medical practises, the truth is, i'm African and here we have lots of believes and practises that when done works, its more like some ancestral believes handed down to generations, so when i asked my mom why we do this, she simply says thats how her own parents taught her and so it continues.
Another fact is Africans we really believe more on herbs than english medicines, well as i said because these were practises that has been proven time and again from our ancestors way before the missionaries landed on the shores of Africa bringing with lots of good stuff including medications, all tho this native ways are often slow to act, compared to the The English medicine they have also proven to help in many ways.
Alright so when i was little, i usually have bleeding nose, not like i'm involved in any fight or accident, maybe i would be out with my friends playing in the open field and all of a sudden i will start bleeding when i ran back home my mom would ask me to lay up straight facing up then she would put a charcoal in one of my nose trill and i would stay like that for an hour or thirty minute, and obviously it works, i do this anytime i bleed, till i no longer experience such anymore, till date i don't know what causes the bleeding or why my mom always insist on puting the charcoal in my nose. Lol 😄
Another case is about stomach upset, whenever i'm experiencing stomach ache i would just lay flat on the bare floor facing down with my stomach on the floor, i will juat have to lay still for a while and the ache will calm and eventually subside and go off.
Then the most hilarious of them all was whenever i loose a tooth, if its the upper tooth, they told me to close my eyes and threw it up to the rooftop that it would grow back if it was the lower tooth, i should close my eyes dug the ground and bury it, if i don't the teeth will not grow back, so with fear of seeing some children whose teeth hasn't grown back i was scared and had to do it, i later realise it was all lies 😆 after all....
