CONVULSION

Convulsion could be a frightening ailment for children under six years. It usually follows from high fever. High fever diseases like measles, typhoid, whooping cough and teething may result in the child convulsing. Convulsion may also be associated with head injury or epilepsy. The person may be unconscious and the body may become stiff. As first aid loosen tight clothing, put a smooth piece of wood between the teeth to prevent the child biting his tongue. Apply towel steeped in water to the head and neck. Herbal remedies include: fresh bark of stoolwood (Alstonia boonei) (ahun Yoruba) soaked in water for 12 hours and 1 glass taken twice daily is helpful; enema with catnip (egba owo opolo, Yoruba); goat weed juice (Ageratum conyzoides) (imi esu, Yoruba) applied as eye drop. A preparation from ogede odo(Yoruba) plus spring onions plus aidan (Yoruba). Crush the ogede odo and the other ingredients and soak in water, sieve and bottle it. Take 1 table spoon thrice daily. The preparation can keep for a long time and helps to bring down temperature quickly. Rub palm kernel oil mixed with the powder of fallen dry pawpaw leaves over the whole body. Grated garlic swallowed with water is helpful. Other remedies recommended by practitioners include: jatropha roots (jatropha curcas) (botuje, Yoruba) boiled with tobacco leaves and garlic. The dose is half glass thrice daily; boil fresh leaves of lantana (Lantana camara) and take half glass thrice daily; decoction of the fresh leaves of balsam pear and bitter leaves. The dose is 1 glass twice daily.

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