Traditional Herbal Solution For Family Planning

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Traditional Herbal Solution For Family Planning
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This blog focuses on how Traditional or Herbal
medication could be of tremendous relevance to
the problem of family planning in Nigeria and
also contribute to its potential for earning
foreign exchange. Nigeria was represented at the
Family Planning Summit held in London a couple of
weeks ago by the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac
Adewole, who explained why the country is
investing 4 million in the Global Family
Planning initiative.
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According to the Minister, family planning is one
of the strongest anti-poverty strategies and
low-hanging fruit for reducing maternal
mortality. The success of the introduction of
family planning as part of basic health in the
health sector is to ensure that a womans right
as a human right is realised. Nigeria wants to
include Family Planning as part of basic
healthcare to complement ante-natal services, and
immunisation routine. The new contraceptive
methods would include sub-cutaneous Depo
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate injections) which is
an injectable, progestin-only contraceptive that
provides highly effective, private, and
relatively long-acting (three months), reversible
contraception. Use of DMPA eliminates both the
need for user action daily or near the time of
sexual intercourse and the need for partner
cooperation.
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DMPA is a good contraceptive option for the
following groups of women Women who do not want
to take a contraceptive pill daily, women who
have a contraindication to, or wish to avoid, an
estrogen-containing contraceptive and women who
would like to eliminate regular menses. This
initiative on the part of the Federal Government
is commendable, but I want to remind the Minister
that we should to look inwards for solutions to
our problems.
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About 30 years ago, I was a witness to a
demonstration of the awesome power in traditional
medicine to solve the family planning problem. A
close relation who had for a long time been using
the orthodox drugs got fed up because of the side
effects and therefore consulted a herbalist who
gave her a herbal formulation which worked. I
waited for several months to watch the outcome of
this intervention and confirmed that it was
working and out of curiosity, I decided to
investigate. The herbalist after a long period of
persuasion agreed to reveal this formula to me.
It was interesting and simple
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In concluding, I wish to emphasize that this
article is not meant to encourage readers to try
remedies, particularly herbal or traditional,
that have not been subjected to scientific tests
for safety and efficacy. Until, the Federal
Ministry of Health endorses tested local
remedies, it is advisable to embrace the efforts
being currently championed by the Federal
Government. I am willing to collaborate with
doctors, scientists and other research centres in
Nigeria to develop this formulation to a level
where it would complement Government effort to
find a lasting solution to family planning
problems in the country.
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