School of Alternative Medicine Graduates Maiden Students

Ten students of alternative/traditional/ herbal medicine have graduated from the Holistic and Natural Academy, a school affiliated with Highstone Global University Texas, United States of America (USA).

The school according to the President of the Academy and Director of Studies, Highstone Global University, Dr Akeem Olawale, was established to teach alternative medicine and therapeutic treatment techniques to complement orthodox medicine.

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He said: “The role of herbal medicine is uncountable. What we are doing is to complement what orthodox medicine is doing. We need more hands in this sector because there are some issues, like stroke, that cannot be handled by conventional medicine. We have seen countless of people who have been healed through our therapeutic techniques.

“This is even beyond herbal medicine, it has to do with complementing and alternative medicine, where we imbibe preventive measures in our training. Most of our students were herbal practitioners before they came to learn something different like acupuncture, osteopathic medicine, which we call manual medicine. When a patient is sick medications are not working, it is because some areas in the body blocked it from working. It needs to be opened so that medications can work, that is the essence of our training.”

Olawale further urged Nigerians to embrace herbal or complementary alternative medicine because ‘the sector is doing well’.

Guest speaker Prof. Maurice Azubuike said it is important that every family understands the importance of the impact of herbal medicine, unlike orthodox medicines that have to be through clinical and series of training only made for professionals. 

“But with herbal medicine, even a layman can have first aid treatment. The plants that surround us are medicines. Food is also a medicine. So, I think that if we can give a proper orientation to Africans, there would be a long way of well-being of individuals and it will save high cost of clinical treatment,” he said. 

An Integrated medicine practitioner and a lecturer in the school, Dr. Davidson Ogunnake, claimed to have treated many cancer patients with herbal medication. “And there is a documented research for this. It is good for everyone to know herbs and herb medicine have come to stay,” he said. He also added that orthodox medicine has fallen short because chemicals in the body are not beneficial.

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A student, Titilola Akintoye, said she trained as a Naturopathic doctor and was grateful for acquiring such knowledge. 

“A Naturopathic doctor can heal with anything – sunlight, moonlight. Everything God created is for the good of man. Herbal medicine is very potent but doesn’t work as fast as other medicines but it addresses the root of the problem. Unlike some medicine which takes care of symptoms, herbal medicine takes care of the root cause,” she said.