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  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (7)

    All things being equal as our economist friends never fail to tell us, this series on ebola virus fever should be on holiday from next week. The heat wave of the fear of a possible epidemy is peteringoff. The world is still holding its breath, mouth ajar, wondering how Nigeria, a country thought to be a place where nothing works, was able to hold the ebola bull by the horns and tame it. Our government, doctors, media and we ourselves deserve a good pat on the back.

    The series so far examined many questions related to this matter. I cannot now remember every issue. But I recall:

     Fear

    This involves why we shouldn’t fear the virus, but through education and action contain it. Fear is a product of our feeling of incapacity. It takes on an ethereal form of the nature of it and, nourished by more thoughts of fear like the watering of a plant, causes this thought form to grow and lowers a bridge to it which connects us with it. Soon, that which we fear materialises physically. In dreams, our spiritual helpers may lead our souls into situations of fear which should inform us of how fear is holding us back in material terms. In dreams, I used to find myself walking on a tightrope at heights of about a 25 storey-building above the ground. I would know if I jumped off or lost balance my body could smash into bits and chips. In fear, I would awake in the physical world. With careful study, I had to review, the trajectory of my earth-life for fear situations and with prayers for strength, strive to overcome them. Isn’t it said that it is only he who dares, who wins?

    Immunity

    Mother nature planted a defence mechanism, the immune system, in our bodies, and only a healthy immune system can guarantee dominion of the body over germs. The immune system is made healthy through consumption of healthy, living foods, not sugared, fertilizer-grown, refined or packaged overcooked, overstored and chemically preserved foodless and dead junk foods. The physical body emerged from the activities of mother nature, and is to be nourished by foods produced by those activities in the natural states they are provided. The Creation Diet Plan in the Bible is a guide for Christians. I needed no counseling about this when I read from the Wise one: Neither drugs nor injections, but the right kinds of foods and drinks bring lasting health.

    The Black Death

    References were made to this epidemic which killed about 200 million people in Europe when it broke out in Italy in 1348. It was brought to Europe from China by infected rats and fleas which were in merchant ships. At that time, 1.7 million of London’s four million population was killed by bubonic plague.  The celebrated survivors in Europe were four thieves who protected themselves with herbs such as Rosemary, Sage and raw Garlic infused in Apple cider vinegar.

    I smile anywhere I go when I find people over meals, eating raw garlic, bitter kola, alligator pepper or some other immunity – building herbs.

    Two professors of medicine who work with Mother Nature are leading advocates of immunity building for resistance against diseases.

    Professor Bukunola Adefule – Oshitelu, an eye doctor, for almost forty years, believes the vegetable Yoruba’s call Ewedu is immune building. She developed bitter kola into bitter kola eye drops to lower ocular (eye) tension or pressure and help to improve the visual field in glaucoma patients after an old patient of hers told her he had maintained his vision not with doctor-prescribed hospital drugs but with the water infusion of this herb. Prof. Adefule Oshitelu advises that ewedu be washed with vinegar, blended and boiled in water with no pepper or salt and drunk. Dosage is half a regular table glass. She says there is no harm in trying it for immune boosting since it has been used in cuisine from primordial times and has been found helpful in measles and other viral diseases.

    Prof Akibu Oyelami is a pediatrician (children’s doctor) who uses herbs and writes book about them. He has written about grapefruit seeds, aloe vera, and honey which he produces on a small scale.

    I haven’t spoken lately on this subject with Dr Abayomi Aiyesimoju, a neurologist and homeopath. But I can take a bet that he would explain the role a clean and healthy colon and support which high colonic irrigation play in immune health. Dr Goke Ibironke, of Ibadan, should have a positive explanation on Guardian Angel, a hand held acupressure device, plays in soothing the nerves and balancing the Central Nervous System (CNS) which plays a crucial role in immune function. I shouldn’t leave out Dr Ajagbe, of Oshogbo, and, of course, Dr Sam Asomugha who, if I guess right, will vouch any day for antiviral herbs. It is a pity these doctors who work with Mother Nature are not invited by the authorities for their opinions on matters such as the containment of Ebola Virus Fever.

    Spiritual Activity

    The series made it clear, as Surgeon Norman Shealy, working with Journalist/Spiritualist Caroline Myss have done in their book, The creation of health, that man is not bone and flesh, but that vital force, spirit or energy, which inhabits it and animates it. Dr Aiyesimoju has written a beautiful article on this titled, ‘The tree of life’. In this work, he explains what ought to be the right functioning of the frontal (big) and back (small) brains, and how this lop-sidedness of “big”  and ‘small’ brain has led to the misconstruction of the human body. If we are observant, is there, indeed, a small eye or a big eye, a small testes or a big testes, a big nostril or a small nostril, a  big ear and a small ear, a big lung and a small lung? In Nature, a pair of the same organ is not only symmetrically arranged, in sizes, they are symmetrical. Deviations have explanations in nurture and use. The more used organ is bigger. The less used is smaller or atrophies, that is withers. That’s why the muscles of one arm may be bigger than those of the other.

    Similarly, the frontal brain is used more, in thinking and intellectualism/ the back brain, used less, has shrunken. Yet there was a time in human biological history when both brains were of equal sizes. The back brain is the spiritually receptive part of the brain, the front brain the seat of thought and intellect. To control the body, is tool, the spirit acts upon the back brain through radiations of the blood. The back brain, in turn, passes the impression to the frontal brain through the same medium. The spirit picks impressions from the outside world through a reverse mechanism i.e. frontal brain via the blood to the back brain via the blood to the spirit. Anyone who appreciates the navel as a point of connection between mother and child in the womb should appreciate the connection of body and spirit at the solar plexius, somewhere around the navel region, by the silver cord, which detaches at the death of the body to free the spirit from their union. People who do not easily remember their dreams or who cannot interpret dreams well should now see the possible reasons. A poor blood radiation cannot efficiently deliver spirit impressions to the back brain. A withering, a little used back brain cannot hold the pictures the spirit is sending or broadcasting in a dream to the frontal brain. Yet we humans are not expected to think but to receive and act upon what we have received, using the frontal brain to forge a material response. When we misplace something in the house or forget something and begin to trouble ourselves thinking about it, we hardly find that stuff or remember it when we stop thinking, we suddenly receive the right answer in a flash of inspiration, find or remember the stuff! Spiritual (not religious) activities keep the back brain active and glowing, as the spirit glows through it. In a human body through which the spirit is glowing aright as explained above, the immune system is also set aglow and, thus, no disease can thrive therein.  This dovetails into the explanations given last Thursday about how the New Age or Aquarian Age, which has come upon us at about the same time as the Cosmic Turning Point, affect the spirit, the blood radiation and the immune system, and why, as predicted in the 1920’s, blood diseases are rampant in our generation.

    As we can now see, the blood is made and maintained from within by the spirit, and from the outside by what we feed the body with. The body is lifeless on its own and is animated only by the spirit. That is why a man dies who has lost the will to live. I was once told the story of a paediatrician who always had more premature babies than incubators for them. He would arrange them like sardines in the incubators. If he noticed anyone making great efforts to live, he gave it more leg room by removing the inactive ones. Thus, we heal from within and from without, although, these days, we act largely from the outside. Thus, also, when Ebola Virus symptoms degenerate into bleeding (haemorrhaging) we must find helpful natural means of aiding healing therapies from without.

     Bleeding

    I still cannot stand the sight of blood, let alone infected blood. That’s why we should send loving prayers to our doctors and medical personnel who are taking care of Ebola virus fever patients at the risk of their own lives. One American doctor who came to Liberia to help on humanitarian grounds reported to be critically ill and in quarantine. A leading Liberian doctor infected has died. The popular hospital in Lagos where the Ebola death occurred was shut. Even if only temporarily, that’s loss of income and deprivation of livelihood for all the staff and the proprietors.

    To arrest bleeding of this nature throughout the body, astringent herbs may be useful. They help to tighten the blood vessels to prevent leakage. The Yorubas have a good one called Patanmo. Translated, it means, ‘close your lap’. The English call it, ‘touch-me-not’. It responds to touch by folding the leaves. This suggests to herbalists that it is an astringe herb. The response to touch indicates virile nerve action. If the nerves of the blood vessels would so contract the soft muscles, bleeding would ease. Yarrow, a blood cleanser, is also astringent. Ditto Shepherd’s purse.

    Silica is a good sealant. It may be used either as a biochemic cell salt, or in silica-rich herbs such as nettle and Horsetail. In fact, Horsetail poultries are used to stop nose bleeds. A powerful way to use these herbs may be in their tincture forms. Witch Hazel, pomegranate, Oak and guava are useful astringents. The legendary Dr. Linus Pauling, two times Nobel Prize winner, reminds us of Vitamin C. his researches show that, by the time the gums begin to bleed (scurvy), a condition for which the doctor prescribes Vitamin C and perhaps Vitamin K, sub clinical deficiencies of Vitamin C would have long occurred in the tissues, causing internal bleeding.  He prescribes a minimum of 3000mg of vitamin C everyday in normal health and up to 10,000mg in cases of cancer and HIV for example. It would appear that the hemorrhaging in Ebola virus fever is due to over consumption of Vitamin C by the body to fight the virus, which would then lead to a weakening of the blood vessels. Vitamin C is related to bioflavonoids, which should be administered either as a bioflavonoid complex (all bioflavonoids) or as selected bioflavonoids. For example, Quercitin, a bioflavonoid, fights inflammation and pain, and it is antiviral. Rutin,another bioflavonoid prescribed in glaucoma and Retinitis pigmentosa, two causes of blindness, prevents leakage of blood in blood vessels. Bleeding causes iron loss and anemia. Iron-rich herbs such as Stinging NettleorBeet root or spirulina or Blackstrap Molassesor proprietary blends such as Jobelyn may be given to the patient to replenish his or her losses. Jobelyn,Beet root and Blackstrap molasses are rich in potassium, an electrolyte lost in hemorrhaging; they also contain Vitamin K which supports the blood clotting process.

     Immune building

    From emerging scientific evidence in medical researches, we all easily succumb to infections of all kinds because

    •We do not have enough oxygen in our bodies.

    •We are hypothyrodic in various degrees and our metabolic rate is sluggish accordingly.

    •Our bodies are toxic with heavy metals from food and water sources, ridden with pesticides from agricultural practices and weighted down by pollutants of all sorts in the smoggy or smoky air we breathe.

    •Above all, parasites and germs of all descriptions have made a home of our bodies.

    •Worse still, we no longer eat well, to feed our bodies with living nutrients which would support immune function.

    Some of these nutrients arm the body with systemic enzymes, which the immune system employs to dissolve or to kill foreign bodies such as Ebola virus. There’s too much sugar, the killing fat, refined foods, monosodium glutamate (MSG) taste enhancers, sugar and animal milk in the diet.

    In this toxic, deoxygenated condition, parasites and germs multiply readily.

    Parasites and Virus

    We can do our bodies a world of good by ridding them of parasites everyday and by increasing the population of the friendly bacteria flora. The gum problem I experienced a few years ago, which led to the loss of one tooth, taught me, every morning and bed time, to swirl around my mouth and then swallow the water solution of one capsule of yarrowherb. With a meal during the day, I take one capsule of Black Walnut Lull. With another meal, I take one capsule of ParasiteFormula, or Parasite Cleanse or wormwood. I do not forget Pau d’Arco  an antibacterial, anti viral and antifungal. Amazon AF will soon return to the market. It is anti-Candida. Anyone who has seen Candida at work in a liveblood dark microscopyexamination will appreciate the need to kill them. The blood, rather than being red, is almost all white! The immune cells are immobile or sluggish. The Candida (a yeast) is active and everywhere.

    When the parasite load is cleared, and the blood is oxygenated, using oxygenating herbs or proprietary products such as VITALAIRE, the immune cells come alive somewhat. They can be aided with antiviral herbs such as Golden seal root, Astragalus, Echinacea or proprietary formulas such as Amazon AV or Zeolyte AV.

    We do not have to wait to be exposed to Ebola Virus, or to develop symptoms of the fever before we take protective action. Waiting, it may be too late, as the virus literally gives its victim little or no time to fight back. Let us be as wise as those four prisoners in Europe who survived the black plague.

    When it comes to staunching the blood, improving hematocrit profile to replace lost blood, when there is a need to raise Natural Killer (NK) cell count or CD4 cell count, crucial factors in immune system vitality and fighting force, JOBELYN can be a useful ally. Many studies carried out in Nigeria, the United States and Britain show it readily improves CD4 count in HIV/AIDS therapies. In a recent American study, it was again shown to improve NK cell count and activity. This is besides its high antioxidant value, which is one of the highest among many plants with high ORAC values. ORAC is Oxygen radical Absorbent capacity. Oxygen free radicals damage cells and tissue which form organs and cause rapid aging. Antioxidants donate themselves to free radicals, thereby preventing oxidative destruction of the body. Thus, antioxidants should be helpful in the treatment of diseases, including ebola virus, especially as more than 250 degenerative diseases, including diabetes, cancer, asthma, glaucoma etc, have been linked to oxidative stress.

    In conclusion, I believe the point has been well made that, to borrow the theme of Dr. Aiyesimoju’s lecture series, ‘Partnership with nature’, our doctors can avail themselves and their patients with clinically proven herbal remedies which Austrian herbalist Maria Treben rightly describe in the title of her book as Help through god’s pharmacy.

  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (6)

    A telephone call from Anglican Reverend Ekundayo  Ogunlana roused me from sleep last Thursday morning. He wished to thank me for the column of the previous Thursday and to let me know it enriched his sermon in church the Sunday after. The column in reference, the fourth in the Ebola virus fever series, suggested, among other things, a return to the creation plan for the nurture of the human body in health and in illness as the surest way of preventing or overcoming all illnesses, Ebola fever inclusive. The kernel of this advocacy is that the creation nutrition plan alone guarantees a robust and impregnable defence mechanism, the immune system, which the creator of the human body in infinite wisdom planted into this body to defend it against all disease – causing agents. Thus, creation wisdom confers upon the immune system dominion over all microbes. In my upcoming website to host publications of this column, I share the source of my conviction in this advocacy. It is a simple sentence from the spiritual teachings of a Wise one: neither drugs nor injections, but the right kinds of foods and drinks bring lasting health.

    In the Bible, to which Rev. Ogunlana turned to build evidence in his sermon for his conviction in the correctness of this statement, there are unmistaken references to creation plan for food and medicine in Genesis, Ezekiel and the Revelation. Incidentally, Genesis is the opening Book of the Bible, and Revelation, the last. Incidentally, also, the reference in the Revelation appears in Chapter 22, the last chapter! In my view, these alerts are, for the Christians like the School bell, which announces the beginning of one lecture and the end of it.

    The experiences of Dr. George Malkmus depend for me the recognitions I gained from the Wise one. Dr. Malkmus is an American Baptist church minister. He watched helplessly as his mother was killed instalmentally by chemotherapy drugs which her doctors gave her for a cancer. So, when Dr. Malkmus himself became stricken with cancer afterwards, he declined chemotherapy as a treatment mode. He opted instead for fasting, especially on organic carrot juice. In months, the crippling cancer disappeared! He was so happy that he went on to share his experience in the book HALLELUJAH DIET. He would also set up a health farm he named HALLELJAH ACRES, where he trains doctors and other people about the Creation Diet for healing all diseases. His forte is Genesis 1:29:-

    “Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree has seed in it. They will be yours, for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath in it – I give every green plant for food and it was so”

    Mr Olajuwon Okubena, who makes Jobelyn, the antioxidant, blood building herbal proprietary product, says this medicine derives its origin from Revelation 22:2

    “Down the middle of the great street of the city, on each side of the river stood the Tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit yielding its fruit every month and the leaves of the tree are for healing of the nations.”

    Rev. Ogunlana referred to this passage to urge his congregation to incorporate natural foods and herbs in their diet for immune building. He also taught them about Ezekiel 47:12

    “Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruits fail. Every month, they will bear because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. The fruits will serve for food and their leaves for healing”.

    The creation plan for food and medicine as outlined in these passages shows we should eat fruits, and seeds and take herbs to prevent illness or cure it. Thanks, Rev Ekundayo Ogunlana. It is great to learn that reverend gentlemen can now lead the crusade of man’s return to Mother Nature in health matters. For the Church had misled many Christians that herbs were anti-Christian. For people who try to add vegetables (greens) and fruits to their diets, they will supply their bodies through this diet energy, oxygen and other nutrients from creation which have been stored, in these foods as though they are battery cells.

    Dr. Malkhmus found that his congregation consumed too much refined White flour foods, and refined white sugar and hardly any greens fruits or food supplements. Members of the Church fell ill frequently, especially after parties at which these foods were eaten. Prayer requests for healing prayer were many. But many of the intercessory prayers would appear unanswered. In fact, deaths often occurred. Dr. Malkhmus decided the Church had to add health education and eating according to the creation plan to Christian teachings.

    I believe Rev. Ogunlana is walking on this path. Surer should be his feet if he remembers that, even when we venture to eat fruits and greens in Nigeria, many of them are devitalized through fertilizer and pesticide use in farming processes. I do not eat carrot and cucumber for this reason. For carrot, I go for either organic carrot powder or organic Spirulina which has more beta carotene than even healthy carrots.

    omeone asked me in earlier parts of the series if Ebola Virus could be a trumpet of the Word Judgement? I replied that I wasn’t competent to answer that question. This much I know, however: The earth is a school for human spirits. It is like the soil in which a seed of maize is sown, to sprout, germinate, flower and fruit; heaven or paradise is home of the human spirit, and the earth the soil in which it is sown to sprout, flower, fruit and return home Sunday as a blazing flame, a useful member of Gods Creation. This earth school for the human spirit, like the University, has its semester and other calendar. We may liken the semester to a cosmic Age. A cosmic Age is about 2,160 earth years. There are 12 Ages on the Cosmic Clock, known also as the ZODIAC. Each Age has its name and sign or symbol. We are now in the AQUARIAN AGE. The people of old who gave mankind knowledge of the zodiac were guided to it from on high. From this revealed knowledge, they developed the earthly clock, which they divided into 12 hours of day hours, and 12 night hours. It is noteworthy that the year calendar, also, has 12 months. I am touched by the fact that when this Gregorian calendar was developed, the Europeans had not known of a place called Nigeria. Yet the Yoruba race in South West has a centuries old year calendar of 12 months! Isn’t there something to the division of Israel into 12 tribes? Why would our Lord Jesus appoint 12 disciples? In the knowledge of creation anchored on the earth today, we are priviledge to be permitted to know that monumental events occur in every Age. It is, in fact, knowledge of the regularity of this occurrence’s when the venal point of the earth’s equator line bisects the cosmic ring at a certain angle which led to great expectations and observations. Now that the Cosmic Age is like a new school year. There is a curriculum of spiritual education the earth man must undergo in one Age. As he matures in this school from age to age, he sprouts spiritually, his radiations expanding or enlarging, even as he grows intellectually in an earthly school, till he bursts forth in a blazing flame if the rhythm of his vibrations is below the voltage of his environment that spells trouble or doom. He is then like a “foolish virgin” with no oil in the lamp (of his soul). He keeps repeating the “class” if he fails in the examination and burdens himself with “carry – overs” into the next class.

    Now, imagine what happens in the University when a third – year student is weighed down by carry – over from the first two academic sessions. Such a student is unlikely to graduate. In what we can call the cosmic school system, energy is the language spoken. The human spirit could neither sprout nor fruit in Paradise because it couldn’t bear the Pressure of the power of the vicinity of God he had to be expelled from there to lower lying world of Creation where the pressure, transformed too much lower voltages, permitted conscious existence and growth. But with every new Cosmic-Age, the voltage increases. Human spirits who have sprouted, flowering or fruiting are able to bear and weather new higher voltages just as a brilliant and well killed student is able to cope with the next, higher academic pressure. Human spirits who are able to cope are those whose energy voltages are in consonance with the voltage or energy of the New Age.

    Where this will make some sense to us is in respect of the Creation knowledge that the human spirit has an important and major input into the formation of the human blood. Fetal circulation is known to be established mid-way through pregnancy, when the incarnating soul takes possession of the growing body in the womb. Evidence of this are the first kicks of the baby a pregnant woman experiences at this time. It is instructive that blood circulation ceases at physical death, when the soul, this vital essence,, vacates the physical body! The heart of this matter is that if a higher cosmic energy breaks down weak human spirit energy, the scorched human spirit, like chicken beaten by rains is unable to contribute its important quota to the formation and maintenance of blood composition at the right radiation level which through the immune function, disintegrates everything not meant to exist in the human body, including HIV and ebola viruses. This is the loss of the “dominion” which man is given over his environment. The blame is his, not any-one elses’, certainly not God’s. Creation is maintained by Laws, God does not intervene in the working of creation. His laws govern creation. It was predicted in the 1920s by a Wise One as the earth supped quietly into the Aquarian Age, that blood diseases will be a major feature of our time. Cancer is a blood- related disease, just like HIV/AIDS and now Ebola Virus Fever.

    The New Age coincides, incidentally, with another phenomenon, the Cosmic Turning-Point. To understand it, one would have to appreciate the Law of Motion, and the law of the Cycle which, among other natural phenomenon known as laws, govern Creation. We are familiar with our hearts pumping blood round the body, and of the blood returning to the heart. When we inhale air, we also exhale it. When we drink water or eat food, our bodies must return them to whence they came. One day, our souls must return, also, to whence they came. Don’t seeds become fruits and these fruits become seeds later?

    This Law of the cycle ensures that everything which moves away from its origin must return to it sometime. We are familiar with the atom. It has a core around which electrons are arranged in concentric rings. So is our solar system (the Sun and the Planets) arranged. As electrons move around the core of the atom in cyclic motions, so do the planets of our solar system around the sun. Our solar system of more than nine planets (new ones are being discovered) belongs to a family of billions and billions of solar systems. Together, they form a GALAXY of solar systems. In this galaxy, the location of our solar system is known as the MILKY WAY. Like the human blood circulation, motion of electrons around the atomic nucleus or the rotation of the earth on its axis and its revolution around the sun, our galaxy also revolves around a core. This galaxy, stupendously, is only one of billions and billions of galaxies which compose our UNIVERSE. This Universe is, thus, a gigantic and amazing work. And like other works, it obeys the law of Motion and Law of Cycle. It revolves around a core in cycles! It is the completion of one cycle, such as in the earth’s rotation which causes day and night or revolution around the sun which brings the seasons, that is, the COSMIC TURNING-POINT. As with the New Age or Cosmic Age, it tells us that the Universe has attained a New Age. And all the creatures maturing in it, are meant to have attained a corresponding degree of maturity which alone entitles them to exist at that new level or rhythm of life. It is like the Gregorian calendar of 12 months telling us we are one year older on earth, to which we respond with birthday celebrations. Human spirits in Creation who are sluggish with their spiritual education, that is maturing, cannot bear the voltage of this new rhythm. It is like a man holding live electrical cable conducting a voltage much, much higher than those in the cells of his body. He would be electrocuted!

    In the Cosmic New Age and in the Cosmic Turning-Point, both of which are in a rendezvous at this time, the earth is wrapped in more power pressure than before. Only those human spirits who have sprouted, flowering and fruiting will be able to swing in this power pressure without harm. The scorching of immature spirits will affect their blood radiations and weak blood radiations which plumet the immune system, however well-fortified with the right diet. For the spirit, a tenant in this body, has a major role to play in the making and maintenance of blood quality. For people who understand the Bible alright, this Message echoes in the BOOK OF REVELATIONS.

    When the speaker says “TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA”, the Message is not address to church organisation in the earthly continent known as Asia where the Chinese and Japanese, for example, ASIA is the spiritual name of the WORLD (Creation). The world is not our earth. The earth is our earth. The spiritual name of the earth is EPHESUS. Man gives names to everything on earth. Sometimes, their names accord with their spiritual names. We know, for example, of JERUSALEM in PARADISE the home of the human spirit. THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA refers, therefore, to the seven Universes in Creation (the World). An Archangel presides over each Universe. The speaker in the Book of Revelations remind them of where these Universes have “fallen” short of the expectations of Creation. This is in the area of those “first things” they had left undone. Of course, those “things” have to do with the purpose of existence, which is all about the discovery of God’s Will and unconditional fulfilment of it. That was the Message which the Lord Jesus brought to mankinds; he did not come to die for their sins to be forgiven. In any cases, didn’t he warn that sins against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven? And didn’t we learn that the Holy Spirit is the power which God sent out to create the World (Let there be Light, and the spirit of God hovered over the land.)

     

    Ebola Virus

    Last week, the news broke that another fever similar to ebola virus fever was killing with the same devastation in Japan. This is Denge fever of which this column wrote a few years ago. Some people say it is caused by rats. Other say the mosquito. A reader of this column who said he contracted it while in Asia gave me a recipe which helped him survive the infection. Unfortunately, I lost his name and the recipe. With the knowledge of the New Age and the Cosmic Turning-Point, we should ask certain questions:

    •          Have ebola virus and this Japanese’s virus always been present on earth in latent inactive forms?

    •          If they have been, why are they active now? What is the trigger?

    •          If the trigger is the energy pressure described above, which the human spirit is unable to withstand and is causing its body to crumble, will the cares being applauded today not be temporary gains?

    •          Are these strange viruses’ trumpets of a World Judgement we are not hearing because we are expecting to hear physical trumpets?

    •          If these viruses were not part of God’s creation, as some people have said, reminding of the biblical view that everything he created is good, how did they arise? Could they be the handiworks of men? By this, laboratory inventions are not imagined. Spiritually, we know volitions of the spirit give rise to thought – forms and that thought – forms may become dense enough to physically materialise. If the heart of man is still dark and evil, will this nature not potentiate darkness and evil? I remember vividly the counsel of the Wise One” KEEP THE HEARTH OF YOUR THOUGHTS PURE!

    As we continue to search for a cure for Ebola virus Disease and other killer viruses, let us remember that man forms his environment, and that since he did not create the World, he has to form his environment in accordance to the Will of the Creator and as he lays his bed, so will he lay on it.

  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (3)

    The fear of Ebola Virus is still sweeping through Nigeria, and in the drive to contain the virus, the unimaginable may happen. A vaccine untested on animals and, after, small group of humans, may be exploded on an entire population.

    Let’s not forget that the vaccine will be nothing but weak Ebola Viruses. The parents of my generation enthusiastically surrendered us their children to smallpox vaccination. And, now, about 60 years after, we are being told by authorities no less than medical doctors that this could be the cause of the explosion of cancer of all sorts worldwide. Today, I wish to present an alternative view to the one-way medical traffic about how we can get out of the Ebola rot. It is a material opinion, not a spiritual beacon, which will follow. As this column explained in the last two series, this question is all about the IMMUNE SYSTEM and the RIGHT DIET and HERBS to maintain it. The alternative view to the groundswell today comes from Dr. Robert O. Young, author of  THE pH MIRACLE, which I was privileged to review in THE COMET newspaper for several weeks a few years ago. He shows that the body should be alkaline at 7.4pH on a 0-14 pH scale, where anything below 7 is acidic and above 7 alkaline. Over to Dr. Robert Young.

    Ebola – Another Round For The Propaganda Matrix Don’t Be fooled Yet Again.

    Every few years, just like clockwork, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The World Health Organisation (WHO) conspire on a new global threat to scare the living daylights out of people. Both organisations will spread lies of unfathomable magnitude in an attempt to disrupt and instill fear to ultimately exert control and obtain compliance on populations. They’ve done it before with the flu and they’re doing it again with Ebola.

    Look no further back than 2009 during the flu pandemic hype, and we have the perfect example of a fabricated international orchestration of deception designed to get billions hooked on the fear bandwagon so that Big Pharma could sell millions of antivirals and vaccines for a flu that was no more dangerous than the common cold.

    Manipulating data, promoting falsehoods, continually misinforming the public and using all forms of media to publicise “a deceptive plan”, are all effective strategies currently deployed to extend a massive psychological operation to world populations.

    The orchestrators of pandemics have historically used the same tactics to achieve their goals. Incrementalism plays a large part in priming the populace for vaccination programmes so that administering them becomes a voluntary process rather than forced. The incremental approach gradually integrates all demographic and psychographic factors such as age, set, family, size, language, culture, education, job responsibilities, geography, religion, and how every company, product and service could affect response. It is inclusive of all scenarios that could detrimentally affect the operation. By experimenting through the decades, the orchestrators have learned the best psychological tactics through trial and error.

     

    Using junk science to promote fear

    Both of WHO and CDC claim that by employing their monitoring standards on outbreaks from different parts of the world, they are able to obtain sufficient information to make tentative conclusions about how the epidemics may evolve in the coming months. Much of their clever phrasing is convincing enough to conceal the fact that all their disease policies on response and preparation recommendations are based on pure speculation and junk science.

    The reporting that Ebola is spreading faster in Africa than efforts to control it is based on substantial misinformation. In particular, late last week it was announced that two Americans who had been infected with Ebola were going to be flown back to the US, specifically to Emory University, for treatment, a development that ramped up the fear engine within the media (and the alternative media) about the Ebola virus to even greater heights. One of the problems is that officials will not collect data on the spread of Ebola based on accurate systematic lab confirmation since they will use unreliable methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The end point results of conventional PCR are not very precise and end point detection has a very short dynamic range with little chance of detecting the differences between dead or live microorganisms. The CDC is testing all suspected Ebola patients through this method. The PCR method WILL NOT identify if a person is infected with Ebola at contagious levels. Finding trace amounts of Ebola through this method usually means little yet this is how they identify and report to the media that a person is infected.

    They will only refer to “confirmed cases” and do not distinguish between confirmed and non-confirmed case. It would appear that the “non-confirmed” cases are categorised as confirmed cases and the numbers are then used by the CDC to prove that the disease is spreading when it isn’t.

    Also, suggesting that the human immune system is incapable of addressing Ebola without chemical assistance is also a complete lie. During the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, more than 80 percent of the people treated with allopathic drugs died. Yet, 80 percent of the people who took natural remedies survived. For example, the seeds of the African bitter kola tree have properties that can kill the Ebola virus. Also coffee, fermented soy, homeopathic spider venom and Vitamin C, may all hold promise as anti-Ebola virus therapies, despite the common belief that nothing can stop this lethal virus from spreading uncontrollably worldwide.

    Squashing the innate abilities of human immune system to heal and promoting chemicals is simply another attempt to propagate the need for vaccines. A Canadian pharmaceutical company called Tekmira has been at work for the past few years on an Ebola treatment called TKM-Ebola. Disease like Ebola often have difficulty attracting investment, as pharmaceutical companies rarely see a large payday in tackling a disease that has rare outbreaks and affects a low-income area of the world.

    But TKM-Ebola has attracted the interest of the government. The Defense Department awarded it a contract for $140 million in 2010, after the vaccine proved completely effective in treating non-human primates in chimps. The government’s interest in vaccinating against Ebola is largely rooted in preventing bioterrorism attacks, where the disease could be used a weapon.

    How does Ebola become a deadly infection and why vaccines are not the answer?

    There can be no doubt that Ebola is a dangerous and frightening disease and even though it can kill about 90 percent of its victims, it would not in the developed world, largely because of two factors. The first is the person’s health in general – his or her immune system and ability to bounce back from a viral infection. The second is the type of exposure he or she got. Recovery may be more likely if it wasn’t a severe exposure – meaning, perhaps they were exposed to someone who was early on in the illness, and the amount of virus in the bodily fluids was not yet that high. A 90 percent kill rate would be near impossible in any developed nation.

    Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, M.D., the associate hospital epidemiologist at Bostom Medical Centre and director of Infection Control at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories says that in addition to what is known about Ebola, it requires a known marker on the surface of human cells themselves, which it uses to gain entry into the cell. Researchers have found in a laboratory setting that some people’s cell lines actually lack this marker, or it may be mutated somehow, so that the Ebola can’t get into the cells. However, Ebola research is still very much in its infancy, and knowledge about how the virus behaves is still evolving, preventing and curing it. The most important consideration is that no infection – including highly lethal one like Ebola occurs in a vacuum. Psychological, biological, environmental and sociopolitical factors all determine the incidence, spread and virulence of viral infections.

    In a widely shared onion article from a few days ago, scientists “announced” that an Ebola vaccine was still 50 white people away. This was a job at pharmaceutical companies, who, cynics think, will only set their R&D wheels in motion if there’s money on the horizon.

    There are several strains of Ebola. The current strain is ZEBOV, or Zaire virus, but there are also Sudan and Cote d’lvoire versions. It would be impossible to design a vaccine that would work against all of them. Vaccines have an established record of failure in fast-moving epidemics. Donald Allegra, chair of infection control at Newton Medical Center in New Jersey, remembers trying to halt the advance of measles in a Cambodian refugee camp in the 1970s. “We vaccinated 10,000 kids, but didn’t have an effect on the outbreak, “he said. “Vaccines and acute outbreaks don’t work very well together”.

    Unlike cells, the Ebola virus cannot use its genetic material by itself. Living matter reproduces and passes on genetic material as a blueprint for growth and subsequent reproduction. However, the Ebola virus like other viruses needs a living cell in order to function and reproduce; otherwise it’s just playing dead. It can’t divide by binary fission like bacteria. A vaccine facilitates the virus and provides an optimal environment to host cells where it is then forced to expend all of its energy and resources to help the virus replicate and make hundreds of more viruses.   It does this through unchecked immune suppression which affects T-cells. Vaccination provides the gateway to allow natural immunity to fail and allow this process to a greater extent by suppressing cellular.

    One of the best ways to prevent the spread of  Ebola is to help the body’s immune system create an effective response to the virus. Ebola does appear to be a uniquely pathogenic virus to which the human body has yet adequate time to properly adapt, and therefore it is instructive to point other potential natural therapies that have been studied in the past:

    • Garcinia Kola: (Bitter Kola) As reported in 1999, extracts from the seeds of this traditional African medicinal herb were found to”….inhibit this virus (Ebola) in cell culture at non-toxic concentrations.”
    • Vitamin C: According to the late Dr. Robert Cathcart, MD, who had extensive experience treating deadly infections with high dose vitamin C, “the Ebola virus kills by way of free radicals which can be neutralised by massive doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously. “Indeed, Ebola virus disease – as is the case with viral hemorrhagic disease in general – resembles features of acute scurvy, and vitamin C is well known to have a broad range of benefits, including immune-boosting and antiviral properties, with an incredibly high safety margin.
    • Homeopathic interventions: A study published in 1999 explored the therapeutic potential of a homeopathic preparation of the six-eyed spider venom (Sicarius) at treating symptoms associated with Ebola virus infection.
    • Estradiol: A 2013 analysis, titled “ A systematic screen of FDA- approved drugs for inhibitors of biological treat agents, “ found that estradiol exhibited anti-Ebola virus activity in vitro, indicating the relevance of hormonal factors and perhaps gender in susceptibility to the disease – as well as a possible therapeutic role for estradiol if future clinical research confirms bears these findings out.

    There are a wide range of natural compounds that have yet to be evaluated for their direct anti-Ebola activity and/or immune boosting properties, and that may be highly relevant to the goal of immunity. The poor, weak cell usually bursts like an overinflated balloon from all the viruses and is destroyed in the process. Then, the replicated virus attached itself to a new, unaffected host cell, and the viral infection continues. Vaccination will never solve the Ebola puzzle.

    Adenovirus vaccines, which have been used in Liberia, Guinea can have serious adverse reaction. Should any population confide in vaccination for the Ebola virus, they would cause an untold number of deaths.

    Why Ebola and why now? And why all the drama?

    An African nurse vaccinated a child against a fungus called pneumococcus. Pneumococcus fungus is a biological transformation of what used to be a healthy plant, animal or human cell. This fungus is said to be responsible for over 60 percent of all childhood deaths in Africa. I would suggest that the increase in this fungal condition is directly related to the water, food, sanitation and hygiene of the child. Bacteria, yeast, fungi, mold and their waste products – viruses, are born in us and from us as a consequence of an acidic lifestyle and diet.

    All infectious disease at home or in Africa is born within the body from the acidic waste products of diet, metabolism, respiration and the environment which are NOT properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination. When acidic waste products are NOT circulated and eliminated through urination, defecation, perspiration or respiration they are distributed out to the connective and fatty tissues. When this happens you set the stage for ALL sickness and disease.

    All viruses are non-living entities and because they are liquid or gas they can penetrate the cell membrane damaging and destroying the DNA. These non-living entities are ALL the acidic waste products from diet, metabolism, respiration, environment and the biological transformations or evolutions of healthy cells into bacteria, yeast and mold that produce acidic waste products. These acidic waste products are called exotoxins, endotoxins, and mycotoxins. The creation of pneumococcus or fungi is the result of acidic build build-up in the tissues, organs or glands and the biological transformation of once healthy body cells into bacteria, fungi and then mold. Just like food in your refrigerator goes from healthy to moldy. Don’t you know you don’t get old, you mold. So should we vaccinate our food or the human body so it won’t go moldy? O-wait they are already doing this to our food and children!

    The germs of the air can only contribute to a sickness or disease but it cannot cause a sickness or disease. Seeds grow perfectly well in soil but throw them on concrete and they will not grow. It is all about the environment – the internal environment. And there is only one sickness and one disease! That one sickness and one disease is the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues due to an inverted or acidic way of living, eating and thinking. One last example, I call this example the ‘Love Boat’ metaphor. So what happens on a cruise ship like the ‘Love Boat’ – Over-eating acidic food, over-drinking acidic drinks, lack of restful sleep, lack of exercise, over exposure to chemicals in the food, drinking water, shower water and swimming pool water. People get constipated. They become dehydrated. They stop eliminating their waste products. So, people get sick on the ‘Love Boat’ because of their lifestyle and dietary choices and NOT because of some phantom virus like Ebola or fungi like pneumococcus. And the interesting thing is NOT everyone gets sick. Only those who stop eliminating their acidic waste products get sick. This condition of sickness is NOT caused by some phantom virus that selectively picked on YOU! IT is ALL about circulation, elimination and maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the body fluids.

    Germs and viruses are symptoms of acidic living, eating and thinking. They do NOT cause disease they are the result of acidic build-up in the tissues, organs and glands because of poor circulation and elimination. Sickness and disease is the body in preservation mode trying to rid itself of toxic acidic waste products and restore its natural healthy alkaline state before it quickly dies. As Claude Bernard, a 20th century medical doctor and research scientist, stated, “the germ is NOTHING the TERRIAN is everything.

    The healthy and natural approach to preventing and/or reversing any sickness or disease condition is to maintain the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. True immunity is then achieved by maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the blood, tissues, organs and glands through good hygiene, clean alkaline water, green alkaline fruit, vegetables, and sprouts, cold-pressed polyunsaturated oils, daily exercise, low stress, and restful sleep.

    So, why Ebola and why Now?  That is a question for each of us to answer. I know the answer! What do you say?

    And what about giving vaccines for a phantom virus?

    What about the use of antibiotics used by conventional medicine for killing bacteria NOT fungi or mold or virus/acid?

    And, finally what are the ingredients of these vaccines?

    Are they safe?

    What is their long term effect of the vaccine?

    Is Africa the testing ground for drugs/vaccines?

    To learn more about pH Miracle Living pHorever read the pH Miracle, revised and updated-

    www.phmiracle.com or www.phmiraclebooks.com

    I would also suggest reading ‘Sick and Tired’ and ‘A Second thought about Viruses, Vaccines and the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis’. Finally, pick up Professor Peter Duesberg’s book on ‘Inventing the AIDS Virus’. He also talks about the inventing of Ebola, Hep C, SARS, West Nile Virus and other phantom viruses..

    PS – The picture below of the so-called Ebola is Not a Ebola Virus, it is a parasite. NO ONE has ever isolated the Ebola Virus – NO ONE!!!!!! Ebola is a phantom virus. This scientific fraud started in 1983 with the invention of the AIDS Virus. PLEASE read Dr. Duesberg’s book inventing the AIDS Virus’ and NOW the EBOLA Virus!!!

    Education NOT Medication!

    Education NOT Vaccination!

    Education NOT Radiation!

    Prevention NOT Intervention!

    Health Care NOT Sick Care!

    YoungaCare NOT ObamaCare! 

  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (1)

    EBOLA virus fever has crept back into the news in Nigeria, causing worse fear in the public than the first HIV-AIDS alarm a few decades ago. I remember vividly the news reports of the 1980s concerning a Nigerian American AID worker who had just arrived from the United States and was having his papers checked by immigration officers at the MurtalaMuhammed Airport in Lagos. One of these officers mistook AIDS. He dropped the papers and fled. Soon, others joined him. And, in a twinkle, everywhere was upside down. Because Ebola virus can destroy a population at an alarming rate, I consider it important that we be advised about how bubonic plague depopulated Europe in the 4th century. (more of this will be discussed next week.) From Asian trading ships, the killer bubonic plague arrived in Mecina Sicily, Italy, in October 1347 and immediately killed its first victim.  Between 1348 and 1350, it killed 1.5 million of the approximately four million people in medieval England. By 1349, the Black Death, as it was called, had killed six out of 10 Londoners. All together it killed about 70 million people in Europe. It was thought to be spreading by fleas which follow rats about. Rats in homes and in the streets were common sight in England at that time as they are in Nigeria today.  It was thought then that these fleas infected whoever they bit with whatever pathogens they picked up from the rats. But a new forensic study on human remains in the north of London carried out this year suggests that bubonic plague could have been an air borne infection spread by sneezing and coughing.The victims died within three days after they were infected. Lumps appeared in the armpits and groin, followed by black spots on the arms, thighs and other parts of the body.Ask yourself, as you read this; what would you do if you were having sumptuous lunch or dinner at a 5- star hotel, and the manager announced that one of the guests had just taken ill with Ebola Virus fever, suggested you should not panic but all guests should gently file out of the hotel? What about being in an airplane with a passenger in the next seat who suddenly begins to convulse and bleed from Ebola fever? If you leave your seat, will another passenger let you take refuge near him or her as an exposed person?

    Today, we know HIV does not infect anyone who looks straight into the eyes of an infected person. A few decades ago, the HIV-challenged person was seen as the black plague which ravaged Europe a few centuries ago. If a family member was infected by the plague, other family members abandoned him or her to his or her fate, and fled the home, like those immigration officers in Lagos fleeing from the AID worker, because it was certain all of them would be infected overnight, and killed by the plague. It may help our understanding of how to prevent falling victim or of how to keep a person challenged by Ebola fever, if we recall the story of four prisoners who survived the plague scourge. With many homes empty and corpses littering everywhere and stinking, these prisoners were sent everyday to clear the human remains and bury them. Only a prisoner would be given this job, for his life was thought to worth little or nothing, anyway! But, to the dismay of the authority, they did not contract the plagueor any other infection for that matter, and lived well beyond man’s conquest of the great plague their secret? They ate garlic with their meals everyday! We shall come to this later!

    Ebola in Lagos

     What fuelled the present Ebola scare was the death in a Lagos hospital of a consultant to the government of Liberia who flew into Lagos via Lome, Togo’s capital. Ebola has killed about 700 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana. Promptly, the traveler was taken to a highbrow Lagos hospital where Ebola virus infection was diagnosed before he died. Promptly, too, his body was cremated (burned to ash) to prevent spread of the virus, the hospital was shut and its doctors and personnel exposed to the virus quarantined. This event must have been harrowing to the gentleman, especially if he had no conviction about a human soul surviving the earth body, its cloak on earth, and had not separated from that covering before his remains was cremated. Surely, in this circumstance, his experience would be that of a man  thrown alive into a raging fire.For every physical form has an ethereal or non-physical prototype after which it formed. A physical fire has an ethereal form. So does a physical earth body!

    Riot Act

     As should be expected, the health authorities have rolled out what is akin to the riot Act. A potential crisis is on our hands, and we should be well advised about how to go about our daily activities without contracting Ebola virus and, should we, about how to overcome any challenge to our lives. From it all, it would appear there is no cure as yet. So, it is better to avoid being hit by a virus which, unlike the common cold virus, the virus of influenza or the immunity destroying HIV, hardly gives its victim any chance to challenge and overcome it. Two critical suggestions in the Ebola Virus “Riot Act” are…

    • Wash your hands with soap and water before putting anything, especially fruits, into your mouth and

    • Avoid exposure to or contact with the virus.

    If these are about the best protection we can obtain, its like this is a helpless situation.

    For exposure and infection hide in many of those things we do every day but hardly pay attention to. For example, those dangerous situations include. Exchange of Body fluids (kissing, sexual intercourse etc). For people who board buses, body contact is difficult to avoid. On hot days, many people sweat. Cant skin contact in tightly packed buses promote exposure to the virus from infected persons?

    Handshakes Even if we choose to imprison our hands in our pockets all day, will we never touch what an infected person has touched? Do we not receive money from people everyday? Do we not eat from plates an infected person in a restaurant may have washed? Do we not return a spoon, complaining to the water that it is slippery from oil in the food of the last user? What about the glass cup we drink our beer from at the favourite joint? Even if we prefer to use a straw, what’s the guarantee that someone hadn’t touched it? I do not know what happens to my clothes at the laundry, or if my barber is a carrier!

    Raw food

     It is believed, also, that raw foods can be a vector, especially if they were exposed to monkeys and bats, which are thought to be carriers of Ebola virus. Every living organism is a carrier of one parasite or the other, but the parasite does not trouble the carrier. Thus, when an Ebola virus carrier monkey or bat has contact with a fruit or vegetable, it may deposit the deposit on it. A human being who is unfortunate to eat such an infected fruit or vegetable becomes infected thereby. That is why health authorities have advised that we wash our hands well with soap and water before we eat anything. In his THE NATURE DOCTOR, Swiss-born Dr. H.C.A. Vogel says this much and much more, based on his experiences during health study tours of the tropics in search of healing plants. Advocating the use of Echinacea puperea against viral and bacterial disease which he may have picked up while eating pawpaw (carica papaya) for example, Dr. Vogel says:

    “Imported vegetables can pose dangers if they are not 100 percent clean, and so are perhaps infected with typhoid bacilli or viruses of dysentery or some other infectious diseases. If you live in a hot country or tropics, never eat any raw food or fruit that you cannot  peel or disinfect. The same advice goes for anyone who travels to such countries. It is advisable to be scrupulous in this respect, for the damage is quickly done. When peeling fruit, do not forget to disinfect the skin first, since anything adhering to it can stick to your finger and, in turn, infect the peeled fruit before you eat it. Constant caution is indispensable, even though it may make life a little more complicated”.

    Dr. Vogel says he does not by the foregoing suggest abstinence from fruits eating. He only wishes to point out  the need for caution. That caution is inevitable especially in Nigeria where fruits are sold in cuttings and packaged in cellophane wraps by women, and sold at the dust and smoke-filled roadside.

    Ebola fever symptoms

     These symptoms or presentation are the same wherever Ebola fever strikes, whether in Ebola village, near a tributary of River Congo, where Ebola was first discovered in 1976, or in Liberia or Lagos, where the first death ever has been recorded. Some of the symptoms to watch out for are :

    1)  Fever

    2)  Throat pain

    3)   Muscle pain

    4)   Nausea and vomiting

    5)   Diarrhoea

    6)   Severe internal bleeding.

    The virus may stay inactive in the body for about two months before it announces its presence with these symptoms. As stated earlier, there is as yet no known cure for Ebola virus fever in orthodox medicine. It is unclear, also, if Alternative Medicine has a definitive solution, although many cure claims have been made, especially in Nigeria. It would appear that the chances of survival are high if the disease is diagnosed early. In this regard, the disease has to be quickly distinguished from malaria cholera, other viral diseases and Denge fever, which may cause bleeding in eyes, nose, ear and mouth.

    Ebola cure hopes

     In many Nigerian Alternative Medicine circles, Bitter Kola has been suggested as a possible cure. It is suspected that the bioflavonoids in Bitter Kola hold the key. By their nature, bioflavonoids are antiviral, like Vitamin C, and work with Vitamin C to build and maintain the collagen matrix of the body. Collagen is a protein which helps to hold the cells together. There are about 100 trillion cells in the adult human body. Collagen, acting like the cement mortar which holds together the blocks of a house, holds the cells and, therefore, the body together. In Ebola Virus fever, it would appear the collagen matrix in blood vessels is damaged and the clotting factor disarranged. Such damage could cause a weakening of the blood vessels and make blood leak from them. As the blood leaks, the in-built clotting factor of the blood system ought naturally to block the leakages. But it does not, suggesting its task is overwhelming and it cannot cope, or that the virus has disabled it alongside the damage to the collagen bonding. This then could lead to massive internal bleeding (hemorrhaging) which may reduce the blood volume over time and cause the heart to collapse. Collagen destruction and rehabilitation occurs throughout the body, but not on the scale impacted by Ebola virus fever. In Retinitis pigmentosa, a condition in which blood leaks from blood vessels into the retina of the eyes, obscuring vision or causing blindness, damage to collagen by free radicals or other factors has probably occurred. Even floaters of the eyes have been linked by some doctors to this phenomenon.

    I will not be surprised if Bitter kola extracts inhibit Ebola virus. I know it to be antibiotic and antiviral. Whenever I suspect food poisoning and I chew one or two of this kola, that’s the end of the story. And haven’t we learned a lot from professor Adefule – Oshitelu, the  ophthalmologist of about 40 years at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) who has developed extracts of bitter kola into an eye drop for the management of glaucoma? Nigerian researchers, especially at the university of Port Harcourt have studied bitter kola effects on the liver and found it to be heap (live) protective.

    Asthma leaf

     Also called Tawa-Tawa leaf, this asthma remedy has been suggested for use in Ebola fever therapy. The proponents say it may be combined with paw paw leaf, which as an antibiotic may check the bacteria which instigate bleeding.

    Guava leaf

     Extracts in guava leaf have demonstrated  ability to stimulate platelet production. Platelets are special cells which congregate at bleeding sites to block leakages, and should be helpful in hemorrhaging conditions.

    Ewedu

     This is a deep green vegetable popular among the Yoruba tribe of South-Western Nigeria. The English name for Ewedu is Corchorus or Jew’s mallow from many studies; it is packed with vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and many antioxidants which protect the body against free radical and the degenerative diseases they cause. The A-C-E vitamins support collagen health. Besides, there are Beta carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and the B vitamins. There are about 40 species of this vegetable, which feature in cuisines worldwide.

    Other Ideas

     FROM Alternative Medicine point of view, there are remedies for every presentation of Ebola virus fever. But the biggest picture, as always, is a robust immune system. We all take the immune system for granted. Yet it is the solution to all the ailments which seek to assail the body. We must proceed in this journey for a cure by conceding infinite wisdom to the Almighty creator of all things. In His Wisdom is the body endowed with immunity against everything harmful to it. In His Wisdom, too, is the earth commanded to bring forth food and medicine for maintaining this endowment in optimal performance. We must recognise also that, in spite of this, the body has no life of its own. It is mud or earth animated by an in-dweller, the human spirit, that resident which can speak of the body in terms of… “my hand” or… my head” or… “my body” the human spirit, the I or You which glows through this body as “the breath of life “from God. If the spirit glows well, through spiritual not religious activities, the body is robustly healthy when, in addition to that glow, it is well nourished and looked after. It is from these directions that the following ideas are suggested. The suggestions are based on the presentation of Ebola virus fever.

    Pain in neck and joints

     Toxins from the virus must be causing irritation and inflammation which, in turn, must be producing pain. The first step should be to detoxify the system of these toxins by stimulating the eliminate organs, in particular the liver, kidneys and bowels, to eliminating them. For the liver, we shouldn’t be tired of Milk thistle, Jerusalem Artichoke, Carqueja or the proprietary blends such as Liver balance and Liver Health. Club Moss, Maria Treben Bitters, ChankaPiedra, greater Celandine, Dandelion, Tumeric Peppermint, Garlic Grape fruit, Beef root, Carrots, green tea, Olive Oil, Lemon and lime, walnut cabbage for the kidneys, there are Bell’s kidney cleanse and function Tea, Kidney Rescue, Dandelion, Horsetail, Yarrow, Maria Treben Bitters, Golden rod, Bedstraw, nettle, and Corn Silk, among many others, Siberian ginseng, charka piedra, urvaursi, marsh malbio, parsley.

    Headache

     This may be due to spasms of nerves troubled by toxins from Ebola virus. They can be due, also, to stress and digestive disorders, if the virus is ravaging the bowels. Some useful suggestions are magnesium (Natural Calm), Blue vervain, Chramomile, Cayeme, Elder flower, Feverfau, Skullcap, Rosemary, Peppermint, Majoram, Passion flower, Valerian Root and wormwood among several others.

  • Community decries proliferation of arms, ammunition

    The President of Okposi Community Development Union in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Dr. Eze Anoke, has cried out over insecurity, which he said has caused proliferation of arms and ammunition among youths.

    He decried the menace, saying it posed danger to the corporate existence of the community.

    Anoke said the indigenes are still mourning the abduction and murder of the former coordinator of the development centre, Ihebunndu Okorie.

    He spoke after the union’s extraordinary emergency meeting held on the premises of Enechi Ekuma.

    The union president hailed the community members for their maturity and peaceful disposition during and after the Ezeship election, which produced Eze Cosmos Agwu as the Enechi Ekuma IV of Okposi autonomous community. The poll was held 10 years after the death of the former monarch.

    Anoke identified mistrust, rumour mongering, jealousy, envy, pull-him-down syndrome, back-biting, lack of mutual respect and unhealthy rivalry as the causes of Okposi problems.

    Said he: “This avoidable ugly situation has given the Okposi community the nickname of Ovuruivuateweru, meaning ‘Big for nothing’, by the  neighbouring communities.”

    The president urged the traditional ruler to constitute his cabinet after 12 months of his coronation.

    He enjoined stakeholders, youths and good-spirited personalities to salvage Okposi.

  • President seeks $1b loan for arms, ammunition

    President seeks $1b loan for arms, ammunition

    President Goodluck Jonathan is asking the Senate to approve a $1 billion (about N165) loan for the fight against Boko Haram.

    The President said he needed the cash to upgrade military equipment and for training as well as logistics for the Armed Forces.

    The Federal Government voted N968.127 billion for defence in the 2014 budget.

    Jonathan made the request in a letter entitled: “Tackling ongoing security challenges: The need for urgent action.”

    The letter was sent to the Senate and the House of Representatives.

    The letter was read yesterday by Senate President David Mark at plenary.

    He noted that the approval of the fund, which would be sourced from external borrowing, would enable the armed forces to confront insurgency more forcefully.

    The letter said: “You are no doubt cognizant of the on-going and serious security challenges which the nation is facing, as typified by the Boko Haram terrorist threat.

    “This is an issue we have discussed at various times.

    “I would like to bring to your attention the urgent need to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of our Armed Forces and security services to enable them more forcefully confront this serious threat.

    “For this reason, I seek the concurrence of the National Assembly for external borrowing of not more than $1 billion dollars, including Government to Government arrangements, for this upgrade.”

  • Reps summon IGP over 57,000 missing live ammunition

    Reps summon IGP over 57,000 missing live ammunition

    Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts yesterday expressed anger over 57,000 (5.6mm) live ammunition sold by three officers of the police command’s headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, in 2008.

    The committee said it was interested in who the ammunition were sold to and those who collaborated in selling them.

    The committee, headed by Solomon Adeola, invited Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar to explain how the internal control mechanism of the police permitted such act.

    Adeola said the committee will investigate the incident, adding that it is such acts that cause the proliferation of firearms in the country with its attendant security implications.

     

  • 15 Russians arraigned for ‘unlawful importation of arms, ammunition’

    15 Russians arraigned for ‘unlawful importation of arms, ammunition’

    Fifteen Russians being held for allegedly importing firearms and ammunition unlawfully were yesterday arraigned before the Federal High Court, Lagos.

    They were arrested aboard a cargo ship – MV Myre Seadiver -containing the alleged unlawful shipment, in Lagos on October 18 last year by Naval officers.

    The suspects were arraigned before Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday on a four-count charge, to which they pleaded not guilty.

    The accused persons include: Zhelyazkov Andrey (the captain of the ship) (53), Savchenko Sergrey (36), Chichikanov Vasily (49), Varlygin Igor (48), Komilov Alexandr (32), Lopatin Alexey (38), Baranovskly Nikolay (50).

    Others are: Mishin Pavel (31), LLia Shubov (33), Dmitry Bannyrn (40), Alexander Tsarikov (44), Kononov Sergel (44), Korotchenko Andrey (23), Vorobev Mikhail (40) and Stepan Oleksuik (52).

    Because they did not understand English, an official from the Russian Embassy in Nigeria was brought in to interpret the charges, read in English by the court’s Registrar.

    They were in the charge accused of importing, without lawful authority, “a cache of firearms and ammunitions prohibited from importation under Section 18 of the Firearms Act Cap F28 Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004″.

    The accused were said to have been in possession of firearms prohibited under Part 1 of the Schedule to the Firearms Act Cap F28 LFN 2004, without a license.

    The ship and its captain are also accused of unlawfully entering the country through its territorial waters “without due clearance and declaration of the goods carried therein on board the ship”.

    Their lawyer, Chukwuike Okafor told the court that he has filed a fresh application for bail, which he served on the prosecution on Tuesday morning.

    Justice Okeke, who declined the bail application adjourned the matter to February 25 to enable prosecution, Ernest Ezebilo, of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), respond to the application for bail.

  • JTF recovers buried ammunition in Damaturu

     

    The Joint Task Force in Yobe on Tuesday said it recovered 5,207 rounds of assorted ammunition buried in a hideout in Kandahar area of Damaturu.

    JTF spokesman, Lt. Lazarus Eli, said in a statement in Damaturu that the items were recovered on Monday during a search operation in the area.

    He said two pistols, a rifle, three hand grenades and Improvised Explosive Devices were also recovered during the operation.

    “The ammunition were lubricated to avoid rust, concealed in plastic cans and buried,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the JTF spokesman as saying in the statement.

    He urged members of the public to report suspicious persons and materials in their areas and restated the determination of the force to provide security to the people of the state.