Traditional Herbs Used to Cure Meningitis and Sustainable Health Among the Abagusii (Short Communication).

Abstract

The traditional drugs were effective in treating diseases like meningitis among the Abagusii. The Abagusii specialist/medicine men mixed the roots from different indigenous plants (Omanyateti, Ekenagwa ekiogarori, omonyankene, omonyababi) and boiled to make a concoction swallowed to cure a multiple diseases in human anatomy or body. That is why such diseases like meningitis were unheard off in the ancient Abagusii Society in Gusiiland. The problem is nowadays, the doctors, or nurses do not identify the symptoms of meningitis in the early stage, instead they treat the patient on malaria drugs to realise later the patient was suffering from meningitis on un revisable state. The objectives are to reinforce the traditional drugs to treat meningitis among the Abagusii and the rest of the other ethnic tribes and to investigate why the doctors are unable to detect the patients suffering from meningitis in the early stage. The research adopts interview method through survey design. The result is many patients lose lives due to negligence of doctors treating different diseases instead of meningitis. It is concluded that the symptoms of meningitis are similar like those of malaria and therefore, doctors’ contradict on treating malaria instead of meningitis. Therefore, it is recommended doctors to be careful in identifying the patients suffering from meningitis or patients to use the traditional herbs for sustainable human health.