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How the corpus carries pharmacology, ethical reasoning and historical precedent, and how far the comparison between ẹsẹ Ifá and case law actually holds.
The orisa of leaves and of the knowledge of what plants do, the one-limbed body, the iron staff of birds, and the relationship between Osanyin and the practising herbalist.
The knowledge system of the onisegun, the categories of oogun, what pharmacological research has and has not confirmed about Yoruba herbal medicine, and the specialist practitioners.
Guide to the twelve files in the medicine and indigenous sciences section, covering pharmaceutical botany, clinical practice, bone-setting, psychiatry, obstetrics, epidemic management, metallurgy, numeracy, and contemporary regulation.
Twenty-two Yorùbá proverbs on àjẹ́ (witches), oògùn (medicine or charm), and other hidden forms of power, showing how ordinary speech treats these as real, checkable forces with their own limits.
The Yoruba deity of botanical pharmacopoeia, herbal medicine, and forest mysteries, who operates in essential partnership with Ifa divination.
A tortoise tale in which Ìjàpá tastes a fertility medicine prepared for his wife three times and dies of it, with the Yorùbá text of the Alugbinrin pleading song from a named informant.
Five claims routinely made about Yoruba practice, stated plainly and answered with evidence: divination as fortune-telling, ebo as bribery, babalawo as priest, traditional medicine as superstition, and orisa worship as polytheism.
The historical development, functional boundaries, and colonial transformations of the babaláwo, oníṣègùn, adáhunṣe, and related Yoruba healing specialists.