When a person has seizures for the first time, often family members consult a traditional diviner or a healer to find out whether this is due to possession by an ancestral spirit or to other supernatural causes. Often at great cost of the family.

Natural drugs/herbs are used to treat several diseases but for epilepsy and seizure management these natural drugs are not enough because epilepsy it’s a brain disorder caused by biological factors, therefore the patient needs to be seen by a specialist doctor and receive specific antiepileptic drugs (AED).