Quietly, 2025 JULY slipped by without many Nigerian women knowing it was one of the months of the year the global community dedicated to them. It was the month for spreading awareness about uterine fibroids and the latest medical methods for conquering it. I, too, would have missed it, but for a call of nature. I rise at about 3.30am to void water and, done with that, return to my writing desk and radio. On July 28, I listened as usual to Koffi Bartel on one of his repeat programmes on NIGERIA INFO 97.3 FM radio station in Lagos, after I was done with Joy on the same station. Koffi was interviewing Dr Ajayi, a fertility specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology. He wore the membership caps of several international organisations in his profession, Koffi told us. What interested me most in the interview was that Dr Ajayi advised women challenged with uterine fibroids to take advantage of a non- invasive treatment of uterine fibroids which required no more than two hours of their time on a special bed during which the nauseating growths would be gone for good. I will return to this presently.
Dr Ajayi spoke, understandably, from a pure perspective of Orthodox medicine. Without prejudice to his enlightenment efforts, I would like to add some Alternative Medicine perspectives on uterine fibroids once again to this yearly JULY awareness campaign. Previously, I did this every January, review global regional and national conferences on the subject for the latest thoughts and activities. This year, nothing seemed to have advanced much the frontiers of knowledge.
Alternative medicine
I am more conversant with herbalism and energy medicine therapies and cure approaches, which I will discuss in summaries against the background of explosions in uterine fibroids business as some troubled women run from pillar to post for any cure.
From literature reviews over more than two decades posted on my FACEBOOK PAGE(at JOHN OLUFEMI KUSA), there must be about 20 possible causes of uterine fibroids or more by now. These include, but are not limited to the following…
POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY IN THE CELLS…Dr Max Gerson, an orthodox doctor who cured some terrible cancers using fruit and vegetable juices and organic coffee enemas, theorised that tumours occured when potassium, an important electrolyte present in cells, became deficient there and sodium, its antagonist electrolyte resident in the interstitial fluid outside the cells, invaded the cells. Space is not available to discuss the biochemistry which Dr Gerson says would develop from this. His findings concluded that fruit and vegetable juices were rich sources of potassium. Many doctors worry that proprietary potassium formulas may injure weak kidneys and , so, do not recommend it. However, like Dr Ajayi, they are not adverse to dietary fruits and vegetables. I encourage plums, Avocado pear, banana and the peel, unripe plantain and the peel ( these peels are richer sources of potassium and other nutrients than their fruits), pawpaw, watermelon, the local Nigerian ube etc.
DEOXYGENATION… Many environmental and dietary factors cause de-oxygenation. Dr Gerson said that potassium, for example, extracts oxygen from the plasma into the cell. When potassium levels are depleted and oxygen supply is depleted, the cell changes from an oxidative (oxygen using) existence to fermentative (non-oxygen using ) in an existential adaptive mode. This is the tumour, which may be cancerous or benign in any affected organ. Alternative Medicine addresses de-oxygenation with therapies in the HYPERBARIC OXYGEN CHAMBER, oxygen tablets, chlorophyll-2 (which has hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms as well as magnesium as the central atom).
Poor blood circulation
Naturally, the amount of blood which enters an organ should leave it after concluding its job of nutrient and oxygen supply among others. In some cases, however, there is a congestion which may cause oxygen starvation, oral thrush and fungal/ microbial colonisation of the colon which the greyish tongue mirrors as a tell tale. All of these are treated with blood movers such as ginkgo biloba and cayenne and anti-microbials such as golden seal root, Kyolic Aged Garlic, Grape seed extract, olive leaf extract (if candida albicans and mold are present in fibroid samples). Food grade Diatomaceous earth (DIATOM) may also be helpful in crashing uterine fibroid size or that of any tumour or cancer.
Hormonal imbalance
Dr Ajayi said many doctors confuse their patients with this concept. For him, it is like a person died and the doctor is saying DEATH killed him. For there are many hormones in the body and some of them are often out of their boundaries. For him, early and late exposure to estrogen, the prominent female hormone, through early menstruation from about the age of 10 years to late menstruation at, say, 40 may cause this mishap. Alternative Medicine focuses more on estrogen and, thus, attention is paid to the three variants… estradiol, estrione and estriol. Estradiol is the harshest, followed by estrone. Estriol is the gentlest. Estradiol and estrone, being terribly harsher than estriol, menace the life of any woman who has an abundance of them, and may cause pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), breast cancer and infertility as well. Alternative Medicine, through regulating herbs, seeks to de-emphasise estradiol and estrone in favour of estriol. Women who are troubled by painful menstrual cramps, scanty menstruation, absence of menstruation, excessive bleeding and uterine growths, including such problems as endometriosis, have profited immensely from combinations of herbs in proprietary formulas such as PHYTOESTROGEN, the rave of about 20 years ago, FEMALE FORMULA and GYNO CARE, and in the combination of these proprietary blends themselves. A young woman who is under my watch was always a mess whenever her period approached and in the duration. She was never at peace until she had vomited a GREEN stuff, that is BILE, from the LIVER, evidence of incongruencies in her elimination, the vibrations of which should be towards the earth, but which , was rising and disturbing other organs. Unfortunately for her, she never read EVERY WOMAN in school or when she was growing up and never learned to keep her menstrual diary. The pains were her only alert. Now that they are gone on these remedies and raw leaves in the diet, I tease her never to wear a white dress outdoor to not embarass herself whenever her “visitor” came without a knock on the door. Like me, she eats about nine types of raw leaves at meal times…lettuce, nettle, chanka piedra, papaya (pawpaw), oregano, bitter leaf, shiny bush (renren in Yoruba), scent leaf(efinrin) and miracle plant leaf (Ambamoda in Yoruba) among others.
ACIDOSIS… The bodies of many women are acidic because they are sweet tooth persons. They do not like anything bitter and are too quick on naked sugar. Alternative Medicine believes that sugar upsets the reproductive system. Disappearing cycles in young girls are often restored when they stop the consumption of sodas, that is “soft drinks”. Milk, egg and poultry chicken are also contra-indicated in uterine fibroids and fertility questions. So is a preponderance of cooked foods. About 4 to 6 parts of the human body are believed to be made up of minerals. Everyday, these minerals are used up and are meant to be replaced through the diet. However, minerals in cooked food are damaged by heat and the body hardly gets the replacement it requires through cooked food. Dietary supplements and raw leaf diet are, therefore, important dietary sources of these minerals. Anyone who is in doubt should Google the subject PROFESOR POTTENGER’S CATS: The conclusion of his 10-year experiment with 900 cats hold important lessons for human health through nutrition. I turned 75 on 23 August and, with gratitude to the Almighty Creator and his creative WILL, I can say that, except for my vision, I have seen no doctor or been to any hospital for 30 years running now since I knew of professor POTTENGER’S experiment and, gradually, began to abide by the findings.
ACIDOSIS… Our organs are said to function in peak performance when the body is slightly alkaline. ACIDITY is measured on a 0-14 pH SCALE in which values below SEVEN are acidic and those above it are alkaline. The best pH for the body is about 7.34. Cooked foods, sodas and red meat, cause acidosis. Fruits and slightly cooked vegetables promote alkalinity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) , responding to the increasing rate of degenerative diseases, has suggested 80 per cent raw food and 20 per cent cooked food at meal times as food remedy! This has led to the emergence of a variety of green-dense powder food supplements, some of which parade as many as 45 plant powders under one roof. An example was ALKALIVE GREENS, which is now out of the Nigerian market. Currently in the market is daily build, among others. Today, there is a flourish of single herb alkalising green powders such as wheat grass, spirulina, alfalfa, barley grass etc.
Free radicals
These are defective molecules which try to balance themselves by stealing electrons from cells, thereby damaging them. That is the fate of any organ that cannot produce enough ANTI-OXIDANTS to annihilate them, or that is not helped by the body. The body produces three basic ANTI-OXIDANTS for the defence of all organs. These are glutathione, catalase and superoxide dismutase(SOD). Often, these are not enough due to excessive use and demand. The diet is then called upon to provide the building blocks. However, our nutrition is grossly inadequate in them in these days of convenience foods. SPIRULINA powder food supplements can help out because it offers all the 20 amino acids, including the nine essential ones, some of which are required to produce these ANTI-OXIDANTS.
Immune boosting…
Many women take their immunity for granted. The mineral zinc is one of the boosters of human immunity. In deficient persons, the THYMUS GLAND, located in the chest region and which helps T4 cells to mature, shrinks to a quarter of its size but enlarges to a normal size upon zinc infusion into the body. Imagine conditions for a uterine fibroid building up with compromised immunity to deal with them. The situation would be like that of a national army not well fed, poorly paid and armed with inferior weapons but, nevertheless, sent against a more powerful and more motivated force! Modern research has authenticated several folklore herbal medicines specific for uterine health. Many of them are in women’s proprietary formulas mentioned earlier.
The second chakra…
Every tribe of humanity has its philosophy of Medicine. The Asians premise their philosophy on the belief that man is not his body, “but the BREATH OF LIFE” which christians say animates the earth body and falls apart to become DUST when the in-dwelling humanspirit or “the breath of life” discards it in what we call DEATH. Do we call this independent consistency SOUL? It connects with the dust body at SEVEN POINTS. The soul is ENERGY. The body, like a refrigerator or television set, is lifeless until it has been connected through a plug into a SOCKET which brings it energy from the inner being, the soul. The soul is not man but his clothing in ethereal matter. Man is spirit. He actually animates the soul which, in turn, animates the dust body at the seven stations. The connections of soul and body are known in Asia as THE SEVEN CHAKRAS. Each chakra is a vortex of energy which nourishes a set of organs in its location. It is like the electricity transformer in your neighbourhood. When it is faulty or blows , you are cut off from municipal electricity supply and experience electricity failure.The SECOND CHAKRA supplies etheric energy to organs in the PELVIC REGION, that is from the navel to the base of the spine. The uterus is one of them. Many suggestions have been offered regarding why this chakra may not be supplying energy well enough to the pelvic organs, such as the uterus, causing them to wither and become diseased. One of such suggestions which may be examined on Google is that such women are obsessed with intent to control other persons and develop emotional pain when they are unable to accomplish their goal. What applies to women in their pelvic region also applies to men in theirs under the same conditions. Alternative Medicine here can do nothing other than educate affected persons that “YOUR HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS” and encourage them to LET GO, emphasising that, due to the gift of FREEWILL to everyone, NO PERSON CAN OWN ANOTHER. Rooted in SPIRITUAL OR PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE, depending on the level of the observer’s INNER LIGHT or INNER LIFE, fibroids may be self attracted or imposed. The hypothesis is that women who obsessively wish for a child but are not married or who are and experience fertility questions through the second chakra may register pain in their subconscious mind which is compensated for by the body growing something in the womb, even if it is not a foetus. When Mrs Elizabeth Kafaru’s Alternative Medicine column of the Guardian newspaper in her lifetime first suggested so, not many persons believed her. I gave the hypothesis a thought when I read of it in WOMEN’S BODY WOMEN’S WISDOM by Dr (Mrs) Catherine Northrup, a gynaecologist of 35 years work experience in the United States then. Everyone has a psychic space, and everyone is a human Spirit. The spirit WILLS, as a spark from out of the Radiations of the Almighty Creator. What we will varies in content and vigour, depending on whether it is INTUITIVE, deep and hewn right in the core of the spirit or if it is transient or fleeting, coming from the INTELLECT, crown of the brain and body. These thoughts manifest physically once their ethereal prototype have been constructed by nature beings, unless we stop nourishing them with our volition. In this case, the ethereal threads with which they attach to us as their authors dry up, shrivel and fall away, freeing us from them!
Thus, it can be seen from the foregoing few examples that there are many possible causes of uterine fibroids and only a comprehensive therapy or one nearly so can bring permanent cure.
Fibroids and the internet
In the internet age, many things are paraded as cures for all ailments, even if they are not. Accordingly, I limit myself to only therapies that have been CLINICALLY TESTED and PROVEN TO WORK, mindful too, that what works for one person may not work for another. The baseline, as usual, is a double blind placebo controlled trial which involves many persons with diverse status and returns a healthy pass mark. Even in this, we cannot ignore the World Health Organisation (WHO) advice that we do not ignore testimonials from illiterate persons in these matters. Thus, we may not limit ourselves to publications on PUB MED.
Thus, I have heard of sayings that LUFAH, from which Yorubas make local sponge, can work, if it is washed like bitter leaf and the water extract is ingested. Some suggest that green pawpaw leaf boiled and water be added to water extract of boiled lemon grass. I know from publications that lemon grass is good for malaria and that one of its constituents, CITRAL, inhibits the growth of cancer cells. A case has been made as well for the combination of the following herbs…
Nettle, Radix paeonie, Yanhusuo, Portia cocos, Muli, Cortex mountain, Peach kernel, Szechwan china berry, Sea weed, Kelp,Graviola, Vitex, Cinnamonia Ramulus, Red peony, Danshen, Reishi, Donquai, T C M, Barberry, Motherwort, Alfalfa, Burdock, Red clover, Blue cohosh, Milk thistle, Black cohosh, Dandelion.
Dr Ajayi: two hours without surgery on a bed
Dr Ajayi said in his interview with KOFFI Bartels of NIGERIA INFO ( a Lagos FM radio station) that Orthodox medicine now offers a non-invasive, that is surgery free cure therapy which involves only two hours on a therapy bed. I did not get the details and would like to rely on KOFFI Bartels(tel 02012770993) to link readers of this column with Dr Ajayi for more education.
Dr Ajayi said solutions to fibroid problems were easier if they were reported early to specialist doctors. The problem why there seemed to have been slow progress with innovations was largely due to lack of adequate funding, he said. This was not surprising because uterine fibroids was more of a problem of women of African descent, he added. However, I thought this should not be a problem. Didn’t Euro-Americans invest in air conditioners which was a solution to tropical African hot weather, or to malaria?
Some listeners who called by telephone into the programme expressed fears, if not doubts, about surgical therapies. One of such misgivings was death-during surgery or after. One woman said surgery could make a woman irresponsive to sexual entreaties. Another spoke of complications. She had hysterectomy about 12 or 17 years ago, developed a FISTULA problem and has not been able to conceive. Dr Ajayi promised to review her case free of cost but could not guarantee free treatment of her condition. He advised that we all always seek A SECOND MEDICAL EXPERT OPINION Whenever we are set to take a serious medical step.
