why Doctor Jaddu?
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Dr. Jaddu is practitioners of traditional African medicine . He fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witches, and narrating the history, cosmology, and myths of his tradition.
For harmony between the living and the dead, vital for a trouble-free life, Dr. Jaddu believe that the ancestors must be shown respect through ritual and animal sacrifice. He perform summoning rituals by burning plants like imphepho (Helichrysum petiolare), dancing, chanting, channelling or playing drums. Dr. Jaddu, will often give their patients muti—medications made from plant, animal and minerals—imbued with spiritual significance. These muti often have powerful symbolism; for example, lion fat might be prepared for children to promote courage. There are medicines for everything from physical and mental illness, social disharmony and spiritual difficulties to potions for protection, love and luck.
There are differences between practices: an inyanga is concerned mainly with medicines made from plants and animals, while Dr. jaddu relies primarily on divination for healing purposes and might also be considered a type of fortune teller. In modern times,colonialism, urbanisation, apartheid and cross-cultural mixing have blurred the distinction between the two and Dr.Jaddu tend to practice both arts. Dr.jaddu can alternate between these roles by diagnosing common illnesses, selling and dispensing remedies for medical complaints, and divining cause and providing solutions to spiritually or socially centred complaints.
