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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.

How Yorùbá warfare was bound up with the worship of Ògún, pre-campaign Ifá divination, herbal and spiritual war medicine, and iron oaths sealing military alliances, and how tradition, academic history and colonial missionary sources read that ritual dimension three different ways.

An examination of Yoruba defensive war medicine, exploring the physical preparation of ayeta and related charms, practitioner ontologies, tactical battlefield consequences, and critical historiographical debates.

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.

What the Yoruba word for medicine covers, how physical and spiritual causation work together inside one diagnostic act rather than in separate compartments, and why calling this system "traditional" as opposed to "scientific" describes it wrongly.

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.