Traditional healthcare practices: Growing demands and emerging trends

The issue of health is seen as an accomplishment of harmonious integration of an individual with the entire universe, both spiritual and material. Thus understanding the issue of health and illness is predicted to hinge on a variety of diversified and distinctive factors such as cultural, geographical, social, political and economic dimensions. Due to this circumstance, many societies have a case to develop a healthcare system being acknowledged as an indispensable sphere to tackle a variety of health-and life-threatening ailments and diseases of their members. It is within this context that this paper reviews certain phenomena and factors galvanising the people in Nigeria to seek their healthcare needs in traditional healthcare which include its accessibility and acceptability, low cost treatment practitioners proximity, potency and efficacy, herbal formulations, enhancement of services and practices among others. The paper went further to highlight some emerging trends in this form of healthcare system.