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05 February 2008, 07:20
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Meet Ayodele Akindipe, Registrar, Federal College of Compleme (Page 1 of 1)
Before revealing the genesis of his rest in the cosmos of complementary and additional medicine, Akindipe, a alumnus pl alumni of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and a top staff fellow of Federal Ministry of Health, explained the apprehension of complementary and alternative medicine.
The concept of complementary and alternative medicine is not just all about herbal medicine. There is a difference between herbal drug and herbalism.
Herbal medicine is under alternative medicine, because below it, you can go as a good as cool the toxicology and pharmacology of the tree contents, but in herbalism you don't need this.
Herbalism is under household medicine. You actually don't need to move away any research as upon the components of the plant. Its herbal medicine that has been passed from one generation to the other.
But our plants pass washed-up toxicology and pharmacology in order to detect the effect of the flower - if it's poisonous or not.
Alternative and supplementary medicine is basically another form of medicine which is parallel with orthodox medicine. The substructure is the alike but distinct in treatment.
While orthodox practitioners give drugs, we offer what we call remedies or manipulation. Remedies are some of the things produced from our treated shrub and can come in configuration of capsules. Another difference is that, while drugs could be manufactured with a formula, you cannot manufacture natural remedies, because it has got to do with the nature.
Manipulation purpose therapy. It involves neither medicament nor remedies. Manipulation can come in form of bone or muscles adjustment. It's now in vogue in Europe and America. There is again acupuncture, which can be applied to relieve soreness easily from the body. It's also applicable in surgery without necessarily opening up patients."
From a young age, I developed affection in herbal medicine and plants.
Many humans find it difficult to buy that by oneself from my formal training, I had gotten to be schooled the usefulness, application and efficacy of most of the plants on ice my dreams ethical from a very crude age," Akindipe revealed.
The registrar, who holds a PhD from Open International University for Different Medicine, India, explained what led to the surfacing of the academy and its morals compared to what is obtainable in other division of the world.
The advocacy for the establishment of the college had been on right from former president Obasanjo's days in office. Though I bullwork in the Federal Ministry of Health, I had always been in the vanguard, along with other colleagues of mine, advocating for the establishment of the college.
Our prayers were in reality answered by the President Umaru Yar'Adua polity when he granted our request. Right now, apart from Abuja which minister to as our leading campus, we have campuses in Enugu and Lagos.
And our projection is to establish campuses in all the six geopolitical zones. In order to achieve the expected standard, the college was actually set up by an act of the parliament, just like any other government-owned tertiary institution.
Any moment from now, we will be commencing the academic session, and we get a beefy determination to take the health care distribution system to the next level.