Yoruba Medicine [Paperback]

1. INTRODUCTION
(a) An encounter with Yoruba medicine
(b) A cognitive approach to Yoruba medicine
2. GERMS AND WORMS, OR IS GONORRHOEA REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?
(a) Arun (illness and disease)
(b) Some simple illnesses
(c) Other simple illnesses
(d) Types of medicine
(e) Medicines to cure simple illnesses
(f) Image 1. Some concluding remarks on
simple illnesses
3. COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY: REDNESS REVEALED
(a) Yoruba colour terms
(b) Image 2. The human body and cosmos:
colours hidden and revealed
(c) Eela and ete
(d) Health, illness, and Images 1 and 2
4. COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY: RED AND WHITE
CONFOUNDED
(a) Eda and somuroro
(b) Iba (fever)
5. COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY: BLACK BLOOD
(a) Ase dudu (black menstruation)
(b) Lakuegbe (rheumatism)
(c) Ino.run (pellagra)
(d) Colour and the human body: some
concluding remarks
6. IFA, SONPONNO, AND THE PALM-TREE
(a) Hot earth and the wind
(b) Ifa
(c) Ifa and Sonponno
(d) The paradigm
7. HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE AND RATIONALITY: THE
WORK OF INCANTATION
(a) Curses, prayers, and speaking the truth
(b) Medicinal incantation (XXX)
(c) Some implications of the secrecy of
medicine
(d) The revelation of the hidden powers of
medicines by incantation
(e) Some comments on incantation and rationality
8. FOOD, WINE, SEX, AND MEDICINE IN SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
(a) The Yoruba lineage and compound
(b) Food, wine, and sex in social relationships
(c) Medicine in social relationships
(d) The paradigm and symbolism
APPENDIX A. MEDICINES FOR SIMPLE ILLNESSES
(a) Oogun ori fifo (medicine for headache)
(b) Oogun akokoro (medicine for toothache)
(c) Oogun aron aya (medicine for worms in
the chest)
(d) Oogun inu rirun (medicine for bellyache)
(e) Oogun igbe orin; tapa (medicine for
blood in the faeces)
(f) Oogun kusinukuso.de (medicine for hernia)
(g) Medicines for diseases affecting women
(h) Oogun atosi (medicine for gonorrhoea)
APPENDIX B. MEDICINES FOR EELA
APPENDIX C. MEDICINES FOR EDA, SOMURORO, AND
IBA
(a) Medicines for eda and somuroro
(b) Medicines for iba (fever)
APPENDIX D. MEDICINES FOR BLACK BLOOD
APPENDIX E. MEDICINES FOR SONPONNO
APPENDIX F. AWURE
Bibliography
Index