Inanimate animated: synedoche in Yoruba tradicional medicine

Abstract

The traditional medicine Yoruba is one among the several systems of medicinal techniques used in the contemporary society Yoruba. The traditional medicine Yoruba is broad. It involves the use of words incantatory and other such material ingredients as herbs, leaves, roots, seeds, earth and other forms of ingredients that depend on the cure type that it is wanted, or, best saying, of the type of treated disease. This work reveals the philosophy Yoruba, its interaction and interrelation among the cosmoses, physical and spiritual. The work also display that the synecdoche is used as an interaction weapon among cosmos, and as a weapon of transfer of medical power.