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Herbal medicine is a health practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbs and plants are the main forms of life on earth. There are about 350,000 species of existing plants. Before the introduction of what we know today as “Aspirin”, man was mainly dependent on herbs for medical needs to retain vitality and cure diseases. The early uses of Aspirin are found in Egypt and Greece. According to Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of "Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug," the ancient Egyptians used willow bark as a remedy for aches and pains. The old remedy would work in reducing body temperature and inflammation thanks to a key ingredient: the salicylic acid.

It is only thousands of years later that people separated the key ingredients of aspirin. The aspirin we know today was manufactured in the late 1890s, and is universally recognized for heart-attack prevention in men who have had prior heart attacks, and it has also shown to have benefits against stroke in women.

The strong belief in traditional medicine in Africa exists since the beginning of times. Before modern medicine, Africans relied solely on plants and herbs to heal themselves. The heavy practice of spirituality led them to have trust in traditional medicine as a blessing from the gods, ancestors or as the successful expertise of healers or witches.