Are Traditional Healers Trained? Do They Know What They Are Doing?

Are traditional healers trained? Western medical doctors go through over 5 years of tertiary education plus 2 years of something similar to apprenticeship. How about the traditional healers, who are more common in African and South American village life? They are the first point of call in their communities in case of trouble, both health related and private life issues.

True traditional healers in traditional African societies go through years of tutelage and experience, by means of an apprenticeship that takes a minimum of 7 years or so depending on the society to which they belong.

In the Numba mountains of Southern Sudan, traditional healing is passed on from generation to generation. In a traditional healers family, the spirits choose a heir to whom the healing abilities are passed on and bestowed.

Some times the recipient of these abilities is chosen young and therefore easily groomed into a traditional healer. To some, it comes late in life. It usually follows unexplainable sicknesses that do not respond to modern medicine and can not be identified. The chosen person ails until the elders are able to decipher the signals that the spirits are beckoning this person to become a the new embodiment of the family tradition of healing.

I for one for example, I went through several years of apprenticeship to become a traditional healer. This was the time when bombs and bullets where raining in Southern Sudan. But there was no way I could run away and join thousands of Southern Sudanese that run off to Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and all other surrounding countries. The spirits could not allow me to abandon them. I had to be the embodiment of the clan and family spirits. I survived the carnage, as every one else either run, died or joined the combating groups. I did not do any of those and here I am.

During this period my spiritual ancestors and father took me through the traditional healing paces. I was taught the various herbs and the ailments they cured. I was taught the signs that spirits send to us, to foretell dangers and impending successes.

At the end of it all I was a well rounded traditional healer, herbalist and psychic. I have been able to heal several ailments affecting societies to which I belong. I have helped people avoid dangers. I have helped people attract luck and love. This shows you that traditional healers are actually trained. They are similar to modern western trained doctors. The laboratory of the traditional healer are the mountains and the bushes of the communities to which they belong.

The natural harmony of the body can only be restored by an integrated and holistic approach. That is where traditional healing comes in.
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