20/11/2025
“Before science put on lab coat, nature already wore wisdom.”
Most times people disregard and talk down on natural healthcare. They call herbalists and naturopaths illiterate, forgetting that nature is the beginning of everything. My dear, people forget too easily. The same nature they insult today is the same nature their ancestors used to raise entire communities without Panadol, without drip, without ICU. Before hospital came, roots were already healing. Before stethoscope came, leaves were already restoring wombs. Before anyone answered ‘doctor’, the earth had already prepared medicine.
But in this modern world, once you mention herbs or natural medicine, some people will shout: “Ah! Herbalist!” “Illiterate medicine!” “What do they even know?” Yet these same people will boil lemongrass when malaria is catching them. They will drink ginger and honey when their throat is scratching. They will rub shea butter when their skin is reacting. But once you speak the word herbal, suddenly they develop selective amnesia. Funny human beings.
Nature is not alternative medicine — it is ORIGINAL medicine. Nothing on earth exists without nature. Every scientific drug you see today started from one plant, one herb, one seed. Pharmaceutical companies are packaging what God already created and people will clap for them ;but let a herbalist grind the same plant and cure someone… suddenly it becomes “local”. Local but effective. Local but saving lives. Local but restoring wombs science has already written off. If being connected to nature is “local”, then my dear, I proudly remain local.
This is why natural healers cannot be underrated. We listen. We observe. We study the body, the spirit, the emotions, the blood, and even the lineage patterns. Healing is not just “take drug and go home”. Many illnesses are rooted in lifestyle, emotional imbalance, spiritual congestion, generational trauma, and environmental toxins. Natural medicine addresses ALL because a human being is not just flesh ,we are body, mind, spirit, and energy. You cannot treat only one part and call it healing.
People insult what they do not understand. Many have been programmed to believe that if healing is not expensive or complicated, it is not “real”. But let me shock you… sometimes your healing is hiding inside warm spices in your kitchen, a bitter leaf in your backyard, a root your grandmother used for her 10 children, or a herb you’ve walked past every day without greeting. It is ignorance that makes people mock what they secretly benefit from.
Natural medicine is not against science ,it is the foundation of science. And this is where many get it wrong. Natural healers are not enemies of hospitals. We complement each other. Science studies structure; Nature studies essence. One works on the symptoms; the other works on the cause. A smart patient uses both when necessary. Only an uninformed person throws insult at something they have not taken time to understand.
Let me say this boldly… the world is returning to natural healing. People are running back to herbs because their bodies are tired of chemicals. Spiritual cleansing is rising again because people are tired of emotional heaviness. Detox, womb care, fertility herbs, immune boosters ;people now understand that the simplest things are often the most powerful. Nature is not disappearing. It is calling us home.
Disregarding natural healthcare is like insulting the very ground you walk on. You can never throw away what God used to form you. The same earth that birthed you… can heal you.
I am Dibia Nwanyibuife
The sacred healer
A proud herbalist/naturopathic consultant
My ancestors representative
