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By Dr. Morfaw Elijah | 14 September 2025 | 19 min read
If you are secretly tired of the same sickness coming back — the joint pain that returns every rainy season, the pressure that climbs no matter what you swallow, the cough that never fully clears, the stomach that reacts to everything — read every word on this page.
You have done everything they told you to do.
You went to the hospital. You paid for the tests. You collected the drugs and you finished them, exactly as written on the paper.
For a while, it got better. It always gets better for a while.
Then it came back.
So you tried the other things. The mixture somebody’s aunty sells in a plastic bottle. The tea a woman advertised on Facebook. The capsules from that vendor who kept sending you voice notes. The one somebody swore by in church.
Money left your hand. Again and again. Small small, until it became plenty.
And still — it came back.
But here is the part nobody talks about. The sickness is not even the worst part.
The worst part is what it is quietly doing to your life.
You cannot plan anything anymore. You cancel things. You sit out things. Your children learn to say, “Mummy is not feeling fine today.” Your husband stops asking. Your wife stops arguing and just starts managing you.
You start to feel like a burden inside your own house. And when a small pain starts somewhere new, you do not even complain out loud anymore. You just carry it quietly, because you are tired of hearing yourself complain.
That silence is the real sickness.
I know. Because I carried it too.
I am not the hospital. I am not a pharmacy. For nine years I was just a man watching sickness walk in and out of my house like it paid rent.
I was raised in a home where sickness was handled with leaves before it was ever handled with tablets. My grandmother had a corner behind the kitchen where things were drying. I did not respect it then. I thought it was old people’s business.
Then I grew up, married, and life came for me.
My wife started with joint pain. Then the pressure. Then the sugar readings that would not behave. Me, I had my own: a stomach that punished me for eating, and a chest that carried a cough from one dry season into the next.
We did it the proper way. Hospital after hospital. Lagos, then Enugu, then a referral we borrowed money to honour. Tests. Scans. Files thick like a Bible.
I will not pretend I counted every naira, but the borrowing was real. We sold things. We moved money that was meant for the children’s school. Twice.
And every doctor treated what we came with. Every single one. Nobody — not one — ever sat back and asked the only question that mattered: why does it keep coming back?
They treated the visitor. Nobody asked who kept opening the door.
And the worst part was not the money. It was the evening my wife said, quietly, without anger: “Elijah, I have accepted it. This is just my body now.”
That sentence lived in my chest for two years.
In my work I travel. Plant hunting, people call it. I go where old knowledge still lives — not to write a book, but because I genuinely wanted to understand what our people knew before we forgot it.
That is how I ended up at a naming ceremony in a village outside Bamenda, on a Saturday afternoon in the rainy season.
The whole compound was there. Palm wine in calabashes. Drums. Children running through legs. The smell of achu and hot soup. The kind of gathering where nobody is a stranger for long.
And sitting on a low stool near the cooking fire was an old woman everyone simply called Mama Ngum. Eighty-two years old. Hands like tree bark. Eyes that did not miss anything.
I was standing, then sitting, then standing again, because my stomach was doing what it always did after food. I had learned to hide it well. Twenty years of practice.
She watched me for maybe four minutes. Then she looked at my wife’s hands, how she was holding her cup with both palms instead of her fingers.
And her face changed. Not disgust. Recognition. Concern. As if she had just read something private off our bodies without permission.
She said nothing. She just looked away, and kept looking away.
I have never been more ashamed in my life.
Later, when the drumming had moved to the other side of the compound, she came and sat beside me. She did not announce herself. She just sat, the way old women sit when they have decided something.
She put her hand flat on my back.
Then she said five words I did not know I had been waiting nine years to hear.
“Your body is not finished.”
I am a grown man. I have stood in front of rooms and taught. And I sat there on that bench at a naming ceremony, in front of nobody, and I cried.
Not ceremonial tears. Not the polite kind you wipe fast. The real kind. The kind that comes out of a place you sealed off years ago because you had decided nothing was coming out of there again.
“My son, I have watched you people. You are running up and down. You buy this bottle today, you buy that powder tomorrow. Somebody on phone tells you to drink something, you drink it. You are spending like a rich man and suffering like a poor one.
In my time, we did not have all these things. We had the compound. We had the bush behind the compound. And we were not sick like this. Not like this. You people have plenty medicine and no knowledge. We had no medicine and plenty knowledge.”
Then she explained what was actually happening. And she did it without one single big word.
“Look at that farm there. If the soil is tired, you can plant the finest seed from the finest market. It will come up small and yellow and it will die. Every season you will buy new seed. Every season you will cry.
Are you a foolish farmer? No. You are just feeding the plant and starving the ground.
Your body is that ground. The drug is the seed. You have been buying seed for nine years.”
Your body has a natural balance — the quiet inner conditions that decide whether sickness can take root in you or not. Call it the ground.
When that balance breaks, your body does not just get sick and wait. It adapts. It learns the imbalance as its new normal. It starts running your whole system on those bad conditions.
So every treatment you take removes what grew — and leaves the ground exactly as it was. Which is why everything grows back so easily. Same weeds. Same corner. Same season.
You were never treating your sickness. You were harvesting it.
“It is not returning, my son. It is being recreated. Every time.”
I sat with that sentence for a long time. Longer than was polite.
Nine years. Files thick like a Bible. Money we are still recovering from. Three hospitals in three cities. Specialists. Second opinions. A whole decade of my wife’s life spent being managed.
And it took one woman, on a low stool near a cooking fire, to tell me what was actually happening.
Then she taught me what to do. And I want to be honest with you about what it is and what it is not.
It is natural. It is done at home, in your own kitchen, with your own hands. It takes less than five minutes at a time. There is no pain. Nothing to grind for an hour. Nothing to insert. No steaming over a bucket. No fasting from food. No travelling to any village to see anybody.
It is ordinary. That is exactly why it has survived for generations while the expensive things came and went.
“Follow it exactly. No shortcuts. Do not add your own ideas because you went to school. And when your body starts answering you — just smile. Do not shout. Just smile.”
Day 1. We started that Monday. It took four minutes. I remember thinking: this is too small to matter.
Day 2. Nothing. My stomach did what it always does after supper. My wife’s knees did what they always do at night.
Day 3. Nothing. I started arguing with myself. A man of my training, doing leaf work from a naming ceremony.
Day 4. Nothing. And I almost stopped. I actually said it out loud — “let us just leave this thing.”
Then I remembered her voice. Follow it exactly. No shortcuts. She had also said something else that saved us: that the ground does not repair itself in three days, and anybody who promises you three days is selling you seed again.
So we continued.
My wife woke up and stood from the bed in one movement.
That is all. She did not announce it. She did not notice it.
But for two years she had woken up, sat at the edge of the bed, and waited. Ninety seconds. Sometimes two minutes. Waiting for her knees to agree.
That morning she just stood up and walked.
And my own stomach after breakfast was — different. Not gone. But different. Quieter. Like somebody had turned the volume down.
Day 6. She slept through the night without turning eleven times.
Day 7. I ate beans. Actual beans. And nothing happened afterwards. I sat there waiting for punishment that did not come.
Day 8. And this is the one that still gets me.
I forgot to check.
For nine years, the first thing I did every single morning was check. How is the chest. How is the stomach. What is waiting for me today. Before my eyes were fully open, I was already taking inventory of my own body.
On Day 8, I got up, dressed, drank water, and was halfway through the morning before I realised I had not checked anything.
You do not know what freedom is until the day you forget to check.
But the real test was yet to come.
Friday evening of the third week, my wife was in the parlour with the children, and there was noise coming from that room.
Laughing. Her laughing.
I stood in the corridor and I did not go in immediately, because I had not heard that sound properly in about four years. Not the polite laugh. The loud, unguarded one where she throws her head back.
When I finally came in, she reached up and held my hand without looking at me, still laughing at whatever the small boy had said.
And later that night, when the house was quiet, she held onto my arm and would not let go, and she said: “Elijah, I did not know how tired I was. I thought that was just who I had become.”
Then she cried. And I knew exactly what kind of crying it was, because I had done mine on a bench at a naming ceremony three weeks earlier.
It was not sadness. It was relief. It is a completely different sound.
She held me that night like somebody who had gone somewhere far and just come back.
I told one man. A neighbour, Brother Segun, who had been complaining about his pressure for years the way men complain — loudly and without doing anything.
He tried it. He told his wife. His wife told her sister in Ibadan. And that is how it left my hands.
Voice notes. WhatsApp. Woman to woman, man to man. People I have never met were calling my number saying names of people I did not know.
Aisha Mohammed, 47 — Kano
“Eleven years of joint pain. I had done every drug and three herbal mixtures from Sabon Gari. By the second week I was climbing my own stairs without stopping halfway. My daughter said, Mama, you are walking like a young woman.”
Chinwe Okonkwo, 39 — Enugu
“My problem was the stomach and the tiredness. Doctors said stress. Nine different tablets over four years. What shocked me is that nobody ever explained to me why it kept returning. When I read that part about the tired soil, I sat down on my bed. That was my whole life explained in one paragraph. It was not recurring — it was being recreated.”
Funmilayo Adeyemi, 52 — Ibadan
“Sugar and pressure together. My own mother died from this same thing so I had already accepted my turn. Three weeks doing it exactly as written. My readings are the best they have been in six years and my doctor asked me what I changed. I told him, my grandmother.”
Grace Effiong, 34 — Calabar
“Catarrh and cough since I gave birth in 2021. Every single rainy season. I had spent more on cough syrup than on my children’s school books, I am not exaggerating. This rainy season passed and nothing happened. Nothing. I kept waiting.”
Hauwa Bello, 44 — Kaduna
“What I appreciate is that everything was in my market. I did not have to order anything from anywhere. I spent small money and I already had half of it in my kitchen.”
Blessing Eze, 41 — Port Harcourt
“My husband started it because of his pressure. Now the two of us are doing it. Our house is quieter. I mean that in a good way. Nobody is groaning at night.”
Same knowledge. Same plants. Same method. Same results.
I went back to that village eight months later. I brought her salt, soap and a wrapper, because that is how you greet an elder.
I told her everything. My wife. My stomach. Brother Segun. The woman in Ibadan I had never met.
She laughed until she had to hold her chest. Then she asked me why I looked so surprised.
I asked her permission to write it down. Properly. Everything she taught me, in plain language, so a woman in Kano or a man in Aba could do it in their own kitchen without ever finding her stool.
She agreed. With one condition.
“Do it. But make sure they follow it exactly — not their own version of it. And make sure they know this one thing: they were never cursed. They were never useless. They were never a person that medicine cannot help.
They were just tending the plant and forgetting the ground.”
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This article is for education and information about traditional herbal practices. It is not a substitute for professional medical care. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or on prescribed medication, speak with your healthcare provider before making changes.
Ngozi A.
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The part about the tired soil made me put my phone down. I have been buying seed for six years. Six years.
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