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The journal is an international, rigorously peer-reviewed forum for the rapid dissemination of scientific advances in natural and life sciences, with particular attention to traditional medicine and related evidence-based research.</div> <div style="margin-top: 11px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF0F8; border: 1px solid #D4E0F0; color: #1b3b63; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Peer Reviewed</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF5EE; border: 1px solid #CFE6D8; color: #0c4a3d; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Science &amp; Traditional Medicine</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Natural &amp; Life Sciences</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- CITATION ANALYSIS AND VISIBILITY --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 13px 13px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 16px; background: #FFFDF7;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Citation Analysis and Visibility</div> <div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: center; text-align: left;"><a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJSTM/scopus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #F4F1EA; border: 1px solid #E2D7C7; color: #3f4a55; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&amp;and_facet_source_title=jour.1492470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dimensions</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=P8gSgxQAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Editor-in-Chief:</strong> <strong>Prof. Isaac John Umaru, Ph.D.</strong> — <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57904659500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Umaru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ResearchGate</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FoqEVrsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 6px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Publisher:</strong> <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darul Yasin Al Sys Foundation</a> in cooperation with <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.fuwukari.edu.ng/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal University Wukari, Nigeria</a>.</div> </div> <!-- ABOUT --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #F3F3DC; color: #3b5068; font-size: 16.2px; line-height: 1.86; text-align: justify;"><strong>African Journal of Sciences and Traditional Medicine (AJSTM)</strong> is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the advancement of natural and life sciences, particularly where scientific inquiry intersects with traditional medicine and biologically relevant applications. The journal provides a scholarly channel for the rapid communication of original research, scientific innovations, and evidence-based studies relevant to health, medicinal resources, and biological systems.</div> <!-- AIMS + SCOPE --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: stretch;"><!-- AIMS --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;"><em>African Journal of Sciences and Traditional Medicine</em> aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research that advances scientific knowledge in natural and life sciences while promoting analytically grounded and evidence-informed scholarship in traditional medicine and related biological fields.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Scientific Advancement:</strong> disseminate high-quality studies that deepen understanding in biological, biochemical, environmental, and health-related sciences.<br> • <strong>Traditional Medicine Research:</strong> encourage scientifically grounded research on plant medicine, phytomedicine, bioactive compounds, and traditional therapeutic knowledge.<br> • <strong>Life-Science Integration:</strong> promote interdisciplinary links among biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, toxicology, biotechnology, parasitology, and health sciences.<br> • <strong>Application and Relevance:</strong> support studies with meaningful implications for public health, medicinal resource development, environmental health, and agricultural or biomedical applications.<br> • <strong>International Scholarly Value:</strong> encourage clearly reported studies with reproducible methods and contributions relevant to both regional knowledge and wider scientific discourse.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Submissions should clearly state the research problem, describe methods transparently, present defensible evidence, and articulate a meaningful contribution to science, traditional medicine, or related life-science scholarship.</div> </div> <!-- SCOPE --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;">AJSTM welcomes original research articles and related scholarly contributions across natural, biological, health, and medicinal sciences, especially studies that engage empirically with traditional medicine and its scientific applications.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Traditional Medicine and Phytomedicine:</strong> medicinal plants, herbal formulations, ethnomedicine, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, and evaluation of therapeutic bioactive compounds.<br> • <strong>Life and Biomedical Sciences:</strong> microbiology, molecular biology, parasitology, physiology, toxicology, biochemistry, and related biological or biomedical investigations.<br> • <strong>Health and Applied Medical Research:</strong> public health, laboratory medicine, disease-related studies, therapeutic evaluation, and evidence-based health interventions relevant to natural and traditional medicine contexts.<br> • <strong>Environmental and Agricultural Biosciences:</strong> biodiversity, medicinal-resource management, environmental health, biotechnology, and biologically oriented agricultural research.<br> • <strong>Interdisciplinary Scientific Studies:</strong> integrative research connecting natural sciences, life sciences, and traditional medicinal knowledge through robust empirical, analytical, or experimental approaches.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Priority is given to original research articles and interdisciplinary studies that demonstrate scientific rigor, methodological transparency, and clearly articulated implications for health, medicinal science, and evidence-based traditional medicine scholarship. Studies with practical, translational, or policy relevance are also strongly encouraged.</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- ========================= END AJSTM HOMEPAGE ========================= --> en-US <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> [email protected] (Prof. Isaac John Umaru, Ph.D.) [email protected] (Yasin al-Sys) Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 OJS 3.1.1.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJSTM/article/view/10320 <p>Life (<em>Ndu</em>) is regarded in Igbo society as God-given (<em>Chinenye Ndu</em>) and is therefore held in high esteem, requiring protection, care, and preservation. This belief explains why murder (<em>Igbu Ochu</em>) is forbidden and why individuals seek proper treatment when affected by ill health (<em>Oria</em>). This study examines the significance of traditional medicine in sustaining good health in Igbo society and highlights the declining patronage of indigenous medical practices in recent times. The study is motivated by the growing preference for Western medicine among many Igbo people, including some Christians who perceive the use of indigenous medicinal herbs, roots, leaves, fruits, and consultation with traditional medical practitioners as a deviation from religious faith or a form of syncretism. Using secondary sources of data, including books, journal articles, textbooks, newspapers, and other relevant written materials, the study explores indigenous medicinal knowledge and the roles of various traditional health practitioners, including traditional medicine men (<em>Ndi Dibia mgborogwu na mkpa akwukwo</em>), traditional birth attendants (<em>Ndi na-amu nwa</em>), and traditional bone setters (<em>Ndi na-agba okpukpu</em>). The findings indicate a decline in the use of traditional medicine in Igbo society, despite its historical importance in the treatment of diseases (<em>Igwo Oria</em>) and its continuing relevance amid concerns about fake drugs, deteriorating public health facilities, frequent health-sector strikes, and the high cost of formal healthcare. The study concludes that traditional medicine remains an important component of health preservation in Igbo society and should not be dismissed in favor of Western medicine alone. It recommends a complementary approach that integrates traditional and Western medicine to strengthen healthcare delivery, improve access to treatment, and promote healthy living among Igbo people and the wider Nigerian population.</p> Johnmajor Chinecherem Nwaozuru ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJSTM/article/view/10320 Fri, 29 May 2026 08:46:56 +0800