[1] Buckley claims that traditional Yorùbá ideas of the human body are derived from the image of a cooking pot, susceptible to overflowing.
[3] Yorùbá traditionalists claim in their oratory history that Ọ̀rúnmìlà taught the people the customs of divination, prayer, dance, symbolic gestures, personal, and communal elevation.
[4] Homeopathic medicine is said to be more concerned with identifying the causes of the illness and disease in an effort to restore holistic balance in the biological system.
It views the client as an active participant in the healing process, rather than simply a passive recipient of "health care."
In Africa there are so many herbs and plants that can be used in healing, that only someone with a "trained eye" can take full advantage of their functions.
Certain plants are meant to be exposed to the necessary incantation(s) and implementation of offerings in order to reap adequate results.
An Olóògùn, in addition to analyzing symptoms of the patient, look for the emotional and spiritual causes of the disease to placate the negative forces (ajogun) and only then will propose treatment that he/she deems appropriate.
In Yoruban medicine they also use dances, spiritual baths, symbolic sacrifice, song/prayer, and a change of diet to help cure the sick.
They also believe that the only true and complete cure can be a change of 'consciousness' where the individual can recognize the root of the problem themselves and seek to eliminate it.
Disease to the Yorùbás is seen as a disruption of our connection with the Earth.The Olóògùn is often a priest or priestess, or belongs to a guild-like society hidden within tribal boundaries.