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  • Don: Ewedu can cure, prevent Ebola

    Don: Ewedu can cure, prevent Ebola

    A professor of Ophthalmology at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Guiness Eye Centre, Prof  Adebukola Adefule-Oshitelu, has claimed that ‘Corchorus’ popularly known as Ewedu in Nigeria has the potency to both prevent and cure the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

    Prof Adefule-Oshitelu had equally championed Garcinia Kola (orogbo) as a remedy for eye diseases, especially glaucoma.

    According to Prof Adefule-Oshitelu, Ewedu as a cure and a preventive substance for Ebola was revealed to her divinely; under the ‘Great Divine Holy order of the Third Era”. According to her, Ewedu cures Ebola by improving an infected person’s immune system, likewise providing prevention against the deadly virus for uninfected persons.

    “The qualities inside Ewedu is so much that it will kill Ebola by preventing the virus from replicating and destroying more organs in the body. This would immediately stop the symptoms such as high fever, diarhoea and vomiting. Ultimately, leading to the cure,” Oshitelu said.

    According to her, for a cure, attention has to be paid to how the Ewedu is prepared. “The way it will be prepared will be different from the normal way Ewedu is cooked. “Provide the vegetable in good quantity; should be washed and rinsed with liquid vinegar, afterwards blend and cook with drinkable water, for five minutes. No salt, potash or seasoning should be added, take 25cl or half tumbler of the preparation in an empty stomach first in the morning, daily for a week. This would boost a person’s immunity so that such become impregnable to the virus.” Oshitelu said.

    She said: “For prevention, follow these steps described above and use once weekly throughout the period of infestation. These are divine revelations and anyone interested in taking advantage of it is welcome.”

    Prof Adefule-Oshitelu can be reached via: info@greatdivineholyorder.org or visit www.greatdivineholyorder.org

  • ‘Evidence-based traditional medicine‘ll cure hepatitis’

    ‘Evidence-based traditional medicine‘ll cure hepatitis’

    Many people are dying from hepatitis B and C without knowing what to do.

    But, Chairman, Research Institute of Traditional and Alternative Medicine (RITAM), Otunba Olajuwon Okubena, said there is no cause for alarm as hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver, can be treated with traditional medicine.

    According to him, “Many of the deadly diseases which have defied orthodox solutions can be taken care of using traditional medicine.”

    Hepatitis problem, he said, has assumed a big dimension, which is why the World Health Organisation (WHO) has set aside a day every year to commemorate it.

    “The condition can be self-limiting or can progress to fibrosis (scarring), cirrhosis or liver cancer,” he said.

    Quoting Wikipedia, he said, the World Hepatitis Day (WHD) aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis – a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.

    The day, he said, is to encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

    Hepatitis, he said, affects many people across the world, causing acute and chronic disease and killing close to 1.4 million people every year.

    He said about 500 million people worldwide are living with either hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

    “If left untreated and unmanaged, hepatitis B or C can lead to advanced liver scarring (cirrhosis) and other complications, including liver cancer or liver failure,” he said.

    Okubena said people should worry about hepatitis than contracting  AIDS, saying  1.5 million people across the world die from either hepatitis B or C faster than they would from HIV and AIDS.

    He said many research works have been done on the disease, especially to determine its epidemiology, transmission and diagnostic investigations, as well as complications and control.

    He said it is clear that there is no known cure for the disease, adding that traditional medicine can come to the rescue of people troubled by hepatitis.

    “Although, still going through verification, a herbal drug known as Hepacare has been found to be helpful,” he said.

    He said formal clinical trials is being considered in collaboration with secondary health facility in Minna, Niger State, adding that the cost of investigation is stumbling block because it is  high and the trials have to be suspended.

    He said the product is already gaining acceptance, adding that a professor of virology at the Lagos State University (LASUTH) did some sort of investigation with a team of scientists.

    He said the scientist’s conclusion on the preparation is a source of encouragement as he described the product as very efficacious, adding that the results have since been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

    The product, he said, was beneficial in the prevention of CCl4-induced hepatocellular injury, possibly by scavenging reactive free radicals, and boosting endogenous antioxidant systems.

    He urged the Federal Government to do more about traditional medicine in line with the directives of the WHO and the African Union (AU).

    Many countries, Okubena said, have implemented the directives but unfortunately, the National Assembly has not even passed the law that would establish the legal framework.

  • Don: AIDS cure research is on-going

    A lecturer of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, yesterday said he was researching the drug capable of curing HIV/AIDS.

    He said observations of the research were still at the preliminary and embroyo stage.

    Ibeh had, on Tuesday, announced a major breakthrough in the invention of an oral drug made from plant extraction in Nigeria for possible cure of HIV/AIDS.

    But the university authorities queried him for making his findings public without following procedures.

    The university, which spoke through the Provost of the College of Medicine, Prof. Vincent Iyawe, said it would like to take credit for the breakthrough.

    A statement by Ibeh reads: “I am very sorry for the embarrassment this has caused my professional colleagues in the University of Benin .

    “I’ve realised that there are procedures for reporting such scientific results.”

    It was, however, gathered that Ibeh was a victim of power play within the institution.

    Sources told The Nation that top management of the institution, including professors in the College of Basic Medical Sciences, were aware of the drug but were not happy that Ibeh refused to disclose the formula before going public.

    The sources said seven HIV/AIDS patients were said to have undergone trial treatments with the drug and two were found to have been cured.