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  • Natural hair products exhibition holds in Lagos

    Natural hair products exhibition holds in Lagos

    The ambience was fun yet educational, and attendees were given the opportunity to relax, mingle, shop, but most importantly, learn, before heading off with a generous goody bag.

    It was the fifth anniversary of Kinky Apothecary where it launched the Nigerian Natural Hair & Beauty Show at the Federal Palace Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos. It was a culmination of all their workshops and events over the prior years.

    There was an exhibition featuring The Kinky Apothecary’s pop-up shop where guests were able to browse and purchase hair products and accessories. Also, brands showcased their wares, ranging from body products such as R and R Luxury and Ajali, to florists Prime Flowers and Horticulture, who keyed in to the healthy lifestyle aspect of the event by providing fresh vegetables in addition to flowers, candles and home wares. Some new Nigerian brands such as Uwa Earth Foods and Bubble Tii Nigeria chose the event as an opportunity to launch.

    Established in May 2010 by Nibi Lawson, The Kinky Apothecary is Nigeria’s first one-stop natural hair shop. The main aim was to bring superior hair products and informationwithin the reach of women in Nigeria concerned about the health of their hair.

    Founder, The Kinky Apothecary and organiser of The Nigerian Natural Hair & Beauty Show, Nibi Lawson, who chaired a panel, consisting of Hollywood celebrity stylist Felicia Leatherwood, NgoziOpara, founder, The Heat Free Hair Movement natural hair weaves, ObiaEwah, Founder and Formulating Chemist of Obia Natural Haircare, WunmiAkinlagun of Woman In The Jungle, IjeomaEboh of Klassy Kinks and Cassidy Blackwell of naturalselectionblog.com.

    After the panel, each speaker headed a workshop giving in depth information and advice on their individual speciality.

    The attendance at the event showed that the natural hair revolution, first set in motion in Nigeria by The Kinky Apothecary in 2010, is not imagined, and that standards of beauty are slowly beginning to shift.

    Lawson said she was ”overwhelmed’’ with how the show went. ‘’I had such high expectations and I was so happy that they were met. We can’t wait to bring something even bigger and better next year! This event involved a lot of hard work, disappointment, tears sometimes for several months, but ultimately it is worth it,’’ Lawson said.

    The show targeted mainly natural hair, where people could come and gain all the information they needed.

    On the challenges of putting the show together, and others, Lawson said: “Dealing with infrastructural deficiencies, slow internet, power failure, putting together a dedicated and committed team was an issue.

    She added that in the natural hair industry, the main problem is that the market is still not 100 per cent where it should be. Most people unfortunately still see natural hair as unkempt and unattractive. Yes, women can look beautiful in straight and weaves hair but natural hair is amazing, and it has come to stay.”

    She said the next event would hold next May.

  • Natural ways to handle menopause

    Natural ways to handle menopause

    Many women are afraid of menopause, but experts say there is nothing to fear, reports WALE ADEPOJU. 

    Are you afraid of menopause? Don’t be; all you need do is to prepare adequately for it and make it pleasurable, says Dr Leye Popoola, Chief Executive Officer, Nature Healing Alternatives. A way of doing this is by ensuring that half of  their daily meal is raw.

    This, Popoola said, would ensure that women complete their transition to menopause without any hitch. He said menopause is not a disease, noting that it is a point when a woman stops ovulating and menstruation.

    He said: “Many years before a woman gets to menopause, her ovaries slow down the production of important hormones- estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Estrogen is very important for a woman’s reproductive activities. It also performs non-productive functions. Estrogen can act on the cell of the skin, mammary glands, especially the breasts, heart, liver, bones, arteries, brain and the vagina wall. These cells have estrogen receptors and require hormone to stimulate the receptors to function at optimum.”

    Popoola said there are early symptoms a woman would experience as pointers to her arriving at the menopausal stage. “These are hot flash, irritability (mood swing) and frequent vagina infections, cold hands and feet, night sweat, fatigue, headache, decreased sex drive, breast tenderness, palpitation of the heart, insomnia, dry skin and vaginal irritability because the body flora and fauna are affected.

    “Others are dizziness, inability to concentrate, urinary incontinence, weight gain, anxiety, reduced stamina and the feeling that they are bloated.”

    These symptoms, Popoola said, are normal, stressing that the problems often subside when a woman gets into menopause because a new balance has been achieved in all the hormones present in the body.

    “But, this also is a difficult period for the woman because new health challenges will emerge, especially cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis and vaginal atrophy. Osteoporosis is the major problem women often face after menopause with about 75 per cent or more experiencing it,” he said.

    He warned women in their menopause to avoid alcohol, caffeine and sugar, so also spicy food, hot soups and drinks.

    The women, he said, should ensure that they are not stressed out with tasks.

    Dr Popoola recommended the use of salt substitute because salt increases urinary excretion of calcium, which might lead to bone loss in the long run. “Salt substitutes are low-sodium table salt alternatives marketed to circumvent the risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease associated with a high intake of sodium chloride while maintaining a similar taste. The salt substitutes are currants and raisins, white beans, dark leafy greens (spinach), bakedpotatoes (with skin), dried apricots, baked acorn squash, yogurt (plain, skim/non-fat), fish (salmon), avocados, mushrooms (white), bananas.

    “Sun-dried tomatoes, sweet potato (with skin), kale (raw), green (snap) beans, cowpeas, pigeon peas, yam, beans, walnuts, cashew nuts, carrots, onions, sugarcane, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, papayas (pawpaw) and dates. They should drink not less than two and half litres of purified water daily. It is advisable at this stage for such women to avoid fried food and junk meals.”

    Menopausal problems, he said, showed that there was a transition and as such: “Some women experience frightening symptoms that suggest they have terminal diseases but that is usually not the case. That is why we encourage women to try natural medicine approach to their condition. Menopausal symptoms could be very disturbing; it may look as if the life of the woman getting into menopause is in danger when the situation arises. This is why most people treat it as a disease instead of a natural transition that women experience as they grow,” he stated.

    Popoola said: “Medics usually prescribe various medications to ameliorate the symptoms. Whereas, all they need do is to aid the body to overcome the symptoms naturally. The use of hormonal replacement therapy by orthodox medicine practitioners has its disadvantages that outweigh the benefits. Primarin is commonly used in the treatment but it contains estrogen that is derived from the urine of pregnant mares. The danger of synthetic progesteron is that it has many reactions, which are adverse to the woman system. They are present in the blood. It is always good to stay close to Mother Nature at this phase of a woman’s life.”

  • Natural cure for nasal congestion

    Nasal congestion in simple terms is known as a ‘blocked nose’ or ‘stuffy nose’. This happens when there is swelling in the nasal cavity, leading to a buildup of mucus. As a result, it becomes difficult to breathe normally. This is a symptom often associated with colds, flus and allergic reactions.Nasal congestion can be more than merely annoying. It is important to treat it immediately or it can cause other problems, such as ear infections, restless sleep and so on.

    There are many ways to clear congestion. This very common problem can be easily treated by using ingredients already in your kitchen. Use any of these remedies as needed to relieve discomfort until you are well again.

    Garlic

    Garlic is on of the best home remedies for reducing nasal congestion. Its antiviral and antifungal properties help fight the respiratory infection causing congestion.

    •Boil two to three garlic cloves in one cup of water. You may also mix in one-half teaspoon of turmeric powder. Drink it daily until the congestion clears.

    •Eating fresh garlic cloves can also help relieve stuffiness and discomfort.

    Apple cider vinegar

    Apple cider vinegar can quickly clear a stuffy nose as it helps thin the mucus. Plus, being rich in several nutrients, it is also good for your overall health and immunity.

    •Mix two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and one tablespoon of honey in a cup of warm water.

    •Drink this two or three times a day at least for a few days.

    Steam inhalation

    Inhalation therapy is another popular home remedy for instant relief from nasal congestion. It works as a natural expectorant to clear the congestion and also lubricates the irritated respiratory tract. You can do this two to four times a day.

    •Add one tablespoon of crushed carom seeds (ajwain) to boiling water and inhale the steam (keep your head about an arm’s length away from the bowl from which you are inhaling the steam).

    •You can also add a few drops of peppermint essential oil to boiling water and inhale the steam.

    Note: Steam inhalation is generally not recommended for young children because of the risk of scalding. Also, it may not be suitable for pregnant women, and those suffering from high blood pressure, heart condition or central nervous system disorders.

    Nasal irrigation

    Nasal irrigation with saline solution can also be used to treat nasal congestion. It helps wash away the mucus and irritants from the nasal passages.

    •Mix one teaspoon of salt in two cups of distilled warm water.

    •Use this solution for nasal irrigation using a neti pot or some other irrigation device.

    •Repeat once or twice daily for a few days.

    Note: Make sure to use distilled or previously boiled water for nasal irrigation and wash the irrigation device after each use.

    Eucalyptus oil

    Eucalyptus oil is highly beneficial for those suffering from nasal congestion, thanks to its decongestant and anti-inflammatory properties.

    •Simply put one or two drops of eucalyptus essential oil in a fresh handkerchief and inhale the aroma. Do this a few times a day.

    •You can also use eucalyptus essential oil on your pillow so you can get the benefits of this oil even when you are in deep sleep.

    Warm water

    When suffering from nasal congestion, it is important to aid a steady flow of mucus through your nasal passages. Warm water can be of great help in this regard. It will also keep the nasal passages moist and prevent them from drying out.

    •Using a humidifier can help open up clogged nasal passages.

    •You can also run a hot shower for several minutes so that steam builds up in the bathroom. Breathe in the soothing vapours. Repeat twice daily until you recover completely.

    •Another option is to wet a washcloth in warm water and place it over your face. Leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes. Repeat several times a day.

     

    •Source: www.top10homeremedies.com

  • 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! 

  • Natural immune boosters

    Eating a variety of colourful vegetables is just one easy (and delicious!) way to naturally strengthen your immune system.Infections are as inevitable as death and taxes. You spend your first years catching colds, influenza and strep throat. You sniffle, scratch, cough, vomit, ache, sweat and shiver.

    Your immune system remembers the microbes it has encountered and protects you the next go around. At the other end of life, your immune system wearies from years of fighting. In that great expanse of active, productive life in between, you still get colds and flus and “stomach bugs.” You may wonder why you are sick more or less often than your partner, co-workers and neighbours. You may wonder why one person hacking on the airplane successfully sickens the passenger to his right but not the one to his left. The answer is that not all immune systems function alike. A number of factors affect immune system health. Some you can’t control: The very young and the very old are vulnerable. Surgery and wounds give microbes a chance to sneak into the inner sanctum.

    Other risks include chronic disease, poverty, stress, living with lots of other people (dormitories, low-income housing), and drinking tap water (with its local microbes) in many foreign countries. Fortunately, there are ways you can strengthen your immune system.

    Malnutrition impairs immune function. French fries, soft drinks and bourbon don’t build strong white blood cells either. No, it’s those virtuous, self-righteous diets high in fruits, vegetables and nuts that promote immune health, presumably because they’re rich in nutrients the immune system requires. Adequate protein intake is also important; the source can be plant or animal.

    One substance to avoid is simple sugar. Brigitte Mars, herbalist and author of The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicines, notes that sugary foods and juices impair immune function; research bears her out.

    If you’re a new mother, breast milk provides essential nutrients and immune system components to your developing child. Compared with formula-fed babies, those nourished at the breast have fewer serious infections.

    Stress Less: When you’re stressed, your adrenal glands churn out epinephrine (aka, adrenaline) and cortisol. While acute stress pumps up the immune system, grinding long-term duress taxes it. For instance, psychological stress raises the risk for the common cold and other viruses. Less often, chronic stress can promote a hyper-reactive immune system and aggravate conditions such as allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease.

  • Nigeria’s Seven Natural Wonders

    Nigeria’s Seven Natural Wonders

    That Nigeria is blessed with rich tourism endowments is a trite saying within the tourism circle. The efforts to market promote and develop Nigeria’s tourism for both local and in-bound tourists to visit are predicated on the knowledge that the Nigeria’s tourism assets would not fail to fascinate and entice any designing tourist.

    Despite this, packaging these tourist endowments into a product that could be sold to both local and in-bound tourists has always been a problem. Although this ordinarily ought to rest squarely on the shoulders of both the tourism ministry and its ancillary agencies, this is currently being done through a private sector initiative. These efforts are spearheaded by Ikechi Ukoh, the publisher of the African Travel Quarterly (ATQ), a print and online publication solely devoted to tourism and travel trade. The group also organizes the foremost West African travel market, Akwaaba and the Bantaba in Abuja. The Bantaba, a one-day speed-dating travel event will hold on July 7 and on that day, Nigeria’s Seven Natural Wonders will be officially revealed. Last year, the Nigeria’s Seven Man-made wonders were unveiled by the same group after a painstaking search. Now, Nigeria can now boast of both Seven Wonders (man-made) and another set of wonders that are natural. So, which tourist attractions made the Naija Seven Natura Wonders? Below is the full list:

     

    Ikogosi Warm Spring

    Ekiti State, the home of Ikogosi Warm Spring, is blessed with some of the most picturesque country side views made up of huge dense forest and undulating hills. It is within tourism friendly ambience we find the Ikogosi Warm Spring . It is a unique natural phenomenon where warm water pushes out from the belly of the ground, and flows down a small hill. A little further from where the warm water springs out, there is also a spot where the cold water is gushing out. Side by side with the warm water, the water flows down foaming a small stream in the process.

    According to experts, it is a geological wonder to have such occurrence out of the same rock formation and this Ekiti flagship tourist destination is said to be the only one of its kind discovered anywhere in the world. The warm and cold springs of Ikogosi originate from a close proximity, come to a meeting point and flow onward together with each spring retaining its thermal identity. It represents another uniqueness and is the first of such occurrence in the world. The warm spring has a temperature of up to 70oC at the source and 37oC after meeting the cold spring. The meeting point of the warm and cold springs is a unique attraction to tourists.

     

    Ogbunike Cave

    Ogbunike Caves in the Oyi Council Area of Anambra State, according to the tradition of the people, was discovered by a hunter called Ukwa. It is situated in Ogba Hills in Ogbunike. The main cave consists of a massive structure with a big open chamber of about 5m high, 10m wide and 30m long at the entrance. There are many tunnels at the main chamber, leading to different directions. Within the tunnels are big chambers and other tunnels of varying lengths, some of which are interconnected. The caves are occupied by a large colony of bats of various sizes. There are streams and body of water at various places. A stream flows out from one of the tunnels into a rapid flowing river.

    The immediate environment of the caves up to about 200 metres radius is a thick tropical rainforest type of vegetation. Among the fauna of the site are deer, antelope, grass cutter, porcupine, rabbit, alligator, snakes and frogs. Others are fish, crabs and birds.

     

    Mambilla Plateau

    The Mambilla Plateau is one attraction in Nigeria that the magnificence leaves one in search adequate words to capture. Having experienced the beauty of the place, there is always the desire for a second visit. Where does one start in capturing the place? Is it the sheer immensity of the rock formation or the twists and turns as one drives to the top the Plateau.

    Climbing the hill is not for the faint-hearted because of the twists and turns as the road meandered upward. But a trip to Mambilla without this experience would not be complete. It is just like being suspended on the sky, held only by a tread tied to one’s ankle, looking down on valley, one could just come crashing down on deep, sharp valley.

    The first point of call is Hawa Biu Da Sisi, meaning two and half shilling hill, the tour guides explained that in the olden days before the road was carved out of the rock, there were load carriers who normally carried loads from the bottom of the plateau to the top. A trip normally takes two weeks from the foot to the top of the hill. The cost par trip is initially two shillings, but having negotiated that amount, on getting to the steep sharp corner, the load carriers would demand for an extra half a shilling, hence the name.

    The first corner is Kwanan Gomna said to be the point where the former Governor of Northern Nigeria, Sir Kassim Ibrahim, reached before deciding to go back.

    Other key points are Tungar Gorah, Kwanan Drum, Tungar Ahmedu. Tungar Ahmadu is close to the top of the hill. This point was said to be the point where the former premier of the North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, decided to reach before deciding to go back. According to the indigenes of Gembu, it was in recognition of the effort of Sir Ahmadu Bello that the whole of the local government area was named Sardauna council area, in honour of the former premier who was also the Sardauna of Sokoto.

    One of the signs that one was getting to the top of the mountain range is the cooler nature of the weather and then the presence of well-fed cattle who lazily shamble along the treacherous road unmindful of coming vehicles. A vehicle has to horn repeatedly before the cattle will leave the road. Gradually the climbing ended and what one could see was a stretch of prowling ranches and undulating ranges of hills. However, before entering the town, one stopped at a sprin1g stream that a pip has been places at the mouth to channel the water out. The tour guides explained that every visitor coming to the town is expected to drink form the water before proceeding. The water was cold and refreshing, just what is expected of a spring water.

    The tragedy of Mambilla Plateau is that successive governments both at the state and federal levels are yet to come up with the idea of how this endowment will benefit mankind.

     

    Yankari Game

    Reserve

    Situated in Bauchi State, Yankari National Park is one of the most endowed wildlife parks in the country. The park is said to contain the largest surviving elephant population in Nigeria, and one of the largest remaining in West Africa. Estimated at 350 individuals, this population of elephants is perhaps the only viable population remaining in Nigeria. In addition, Yankari Game Reserve also supports important populations of lion, buffalo, hippo, roan and hartebeest. The reserve covers a total area of 2,244 km² and is covered mainly by Sudan savanna vegetation. Originally created as a game reserve in 1956, Yankari was upgraded to a national park in 1991 and managed by the National Parks Service until 2006 when responsibility for the management of the reserve was handed back to Bauchi State Government. Yankari is a popular tourism destination in the country.

     

    Owu Waterfall

    Owu Fall is found in Owakajola in the Ifelodun Council Area of Kwara State. It is very high and spectacular. The waterfall is 120m above water level and cascades 330 feet down an escarpment with rocky out crops to a pool of ice cold water below. The water fall is surrounded with a beautiful natural ambience and hills which make sightseeing a memorable experience. It has a cold beautiful rocky part and walkways and evergreen surrounding.

     

    Confluence of River Niger and Benue

    Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State has both historical and eco-tourist endowments. Chief among these is the Confluence of River Niger and Benue. It is the point in which nature makes a Y-shape division of Nigeria into three natural regions and the process creating masterpiece of nature.

    However, the confluence is just about the touristic value, the water serves as a major link before the North and South . It is, therefore, not a surprise the town played a major role in the history of Nigeria. From being a major milestone for adventurous colonialists to serving as both an administrative and military outpost for the colonialists. Some of these relics of past exploits that the city have witnessed are still there.

     

    Farin Ruwa Fall

    The waterfall is located in the Wamba Council Area of Nasarawa State. From Wamba , there is hardly any vehicle plying the route to the fall due to the terrible nature of the road. The best option is to charter a commercial motorcyclist. From Wamba, one could get a cyclist to take one for between N800 and N1000. Heading towards the fall, one could take the Maraba route or Sisibaki. However, for a better view of nature, detouring through the Maraba route is best.

    The road is a little isolated. Only one or two farmers could be seen coming back from their farms. Along this route is a rather simple bridge built with wood. That might just be the obstacle to those who may be making the trip in their own car. Although the width of the bridge is relatively safe, it could be scary since there is no safety rail by the sides, and the river below is quite active. After that one would then burst on the main untarred road, passing through villages like Marhai, Mama and Kulere.

    The Wamba landscape is wonderful, especially in this rainy season that the surrounding is lush with green plants. This is accentuated by the rolling hilly landscape. From more than 10 kilometres, one could see the Farin Ruwa Fall like a white gash on a dark background. There is this tendency to be deluded by the sight of the fall from such a distance to believe that it is just behind the next tree. But one had to ride through bumps, slippery surfaces, waterlogged road. And this is actually the tragedy of such a beautiful gift of nature.

    The Farin Ruwa Waterfall environment is an alluring area. The vegetation is more of forest than savanna, the common vegetation in the north. Added to that is that the land is fertile as could be seen in lush crops on the farms.

    There are so many things to draw one to the place. The rocky landscape is ethereal. On the area where the fall gushes out, on this particular day, there is snowy top as if a steam is coming out of the rocks.

     

  • Exit of a natural medicine pioneer

    The news of the death of Oluyemisi Akinadewo caught practitioners et al unaware. OYEYEMI GBENGA-MUSTAPHA and WALE ADEPOJU report what they say about the pioneer Director-General, Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA).

     

    The first Director-General of the Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), Oluyemi Akinadewo, is dead. He died of cardiac arrest at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). He was on oxygen mask for three days before he breathed his last. He was 68.

    The late Akinadewo was a man of many parts; first, he was an orthodox medicine practitioner; and then a traditional medicine practitioner – a passion he nurtured till he passed away on May 7.

    In his lifetime, he held several key positions within and outside the country. Some of them are Coordinator, National Expert Committee (NEC) on Traditional Medicine; Director, Ministry of Science and Technology, Director-General, Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA); Visiting International Chairman, Hong Kong Traditional Medicine Board; International Vice President, Nigeria Agency for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS and Cancer and President, Nigeria China Academy of Natural Medicine.

    He wrote many books. Some of them are: “Sketch on Natural Medicine”, “Medicinal Plants and their Therapeutic Uses in the South west Zone of Nigeria (Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states).

     

    Expressions of practitioners, loved ones, and others on him Excerpts:

     

    Arch-Bishop (Prof) Magnus Atilade, a Chiropractor

    Death is the great denominator. The late Prof Akinadewo was a very devoted and faithful enthusiast. He was an active and ardent administrator. He tried his best to promote traditional medicine. I nominated him as the Director-General of Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA). At that time the Federal Ministry of Health was distancing itself from herbalists because its leading lights were orthodox doctors.The college was not the original idea of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology. It was in the proposal of the then Nigerian Council of Physician of Natural Medicine led by me, Dr (Bishop) Magnus Atilade as President; Dr Samuel Fafure as deputy and the late Dr Marcus Dawodu as Secretary. We wanted an institution in which we could impart knowledge to young Nigerians, carry out researches and produce Nigerian healing herbal formulas; develop them into proprietary products, which would be sold in Nigeria and overseas. As a re-assurance that government funds would not be spent irreverently, we, the Council members, proposed that Federal Ministry of Science and Technology appoint from the civil service a director-general as executive head of the college. The proposal was accepted and the late Akinadewo was chosen. His Foundation should not go down the drain. I appeal that his struggles would not be in vain. Practitioners in Traditional Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) should come together and push the Bill into Law at the Senate by ensuring the President append his signature.

     

    CEO, Health Forever Living Products, Otunba Okubena Olajuwon

    I met Prof Akinadewo several years ago when he was the pioneer Director-General of Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA). Through this agency, enlightened public awareness was created for the first time through a Federal Government agency. Even though during his tenure, the African Union (AU) was encouraging and mandating all African states, including Nigeria to institutionalise African Traditional Medicine within the decade of 2001 to 2010, Nigeria did not get its acts together and she is one of the few delinquent countries that failed to implement the AU mandate because as at 2013, the law governing Traditional Medicine has not been enacted. After his retirement from NNMDA, the tempo of popularising natural medicine seemed to have gone down, but surprisingly, he resurfaced in his private capacity to join the clarion call for institutionalising traditional medicine in the last three years of his sojourn on earth. He made his mark and contributed his quota to the development of natural medicine in Nigeria. As a tribute to his memory, I hope the appropriate authorities would accelerate efforts to enact the appropriate law that would give official recognition to Traditional Medicine in Nigeria and institutionalise it in the country so that TM would take its appropriate place in the healthcare delivery system. There is no doubt that all stakeholders would miss his invaluable contribution to the development of the TM project.

     

    His second wife, Mrs Ololade Akinadewo

    We will miss him, especially his commitment to God. I am not happy because he hasn’t lived long to eat the fruit of his labour. The family received the news of his death terribly. It was terrible when the children heard about their dad’s death. They were all weeping and crying. I have never seen my younger son cried the way he did in his life. He cried for almost a day. He cried for almost three hours non-stop. He kept sobbing. We all missed him anyway. We are all still crying. What I can do is to encourage people that are working with him to keep up his legacy.

     

    Chairman, National Expert Committee, Prof Adebukunola Adefula-Ositelu

    Prof Akinadewo was a man of many parts and one of many brains that Nigeria can be proud of. He was the pivot, the wheel that was steering the committee to go on. He was important and highly respected. He was always going to Abuja and all the ministries to seek support as if going to the next door. My first contact with him was four years ago when Titi Oduye introduced him to me. He had a complaint about his eyes and when I examined him I found out he has primary open angle glaucoma. He became interested in garcina Kola nut extract (Yoruba, orogbo) research work that I had done. He was present when I delivered my inaugural lecture. He also brought members of the committee with him and they were all very impressed with the garcina kola clinical work. We had two meetings. The second was at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, which stakeholders in the health sector such as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRID), different national committees, Mr Femi Kusa, and many others graced. There, it was decided we need to move forward concerning the natural products that we have in Nigeria. It was agreed that practitioners should come forward with their formulas which would be subjected to clinical trials; do toxicology, among others. Three weeks ago we had a meeting at his office on Ikorodu Road. We asked people to come and register their products for clinical trials. They too will be involved. We made the move because there were factions. We were trying to bring them together to have one voice. His death should not bring the committee to an end. I think we still need to get over the shock of his death. Naturally, it was another shock for me this year having lost my husband earlier in the year. We can get over this. Once he is burie,. I think we can come together again and start off somewhere. I don’t think we should allow his dream to die. Many of the committee members are well-known and well to do. We will decide on what next to do.

     

    Tam Okujagu, Director General/Chief Executive

    Prof Oluyemi Akinadewo served several years in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and became the pioneer Director- General, Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) on its establishment in 1997. He was a great advocate of natural medicine promotion, research and development, and worked to nurture and pursued the goals, objectives and mandate of the Agency.

     

    His Personal Assistant, Mr Kolawole Solola

    The late Akinadewo’s career started at Onikan Health Centre, Lagos, as a medical doctor. He was a General Practitioner (GP). He studied at Howard University, United States. The deceased was instrumental to the Beijing 2000 Conference in China. He led the Nigerian delegates with the then Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Pauline Talley who was also the former Deputy Governor of Plateau State. He was among the facilitators and even drafted the communiqué at the end of the conference. That further enhanced the bi-lateral trade agreement between Nigeria and China. This has blossomed since then. Apart from being a medical doctor, he was also a devout Christian and a deeply spiritual person. He founded the Lord Mountain of Salvation House of Prayer (Oke Igbala Olu).

     

    Former Cleric, Lord Mountain of Salvation House of Prayer (Oke Igbala Olu), Special Apostle Noah Odukeye.

    Late Akinadewo was born into a Christian family; his parents were of Aladura Church. His father, Baba Aladura, Adekahunsi Akinadewo started the white garment church in Ondo town. He emulated his father. He started a white garment church in Washington DC, US in the 70s called “International House of Prayer”. He founded another called Oke Igbala (Mountain of Salvation) in Maryland also in the US. He was once a prophet with Ayo ni o. He founded the International Conference of Holy Ghost Church Nigeria and Overseas.

     

    The Shepherd in-charge of the church, Special Apostle Olu Fawehinmi

    I will describe the late Akinadewo as a spiritual guru and a dogged fighter who can confront anybody and any situation. He was a pioneer member of traditional medicine in Nigeria. He believed only in God. He had been seeing vision and making predictions since age six. He was a man of his conscience. Professor, as we often call him believed in fasting and prayer. He set up a medical centre for Ayo ni o. He didn’t see anybody as superior but God. I’ve been with him since the 80s and I remember vividly that he was driving on a fateful day and he asked me to get my pen and notebook and he gave me 26 predictions and by 7:00pm that day, one of them came to past.

    I also remember a scenario one Sunday morning when he enjoined the congregation to pray for Retired General Olusegun Obasanjo, who then was incarcerated that he still has many things to do for the country. Obasanjo was released a couple of weeks later and consequently became the civilian president. He was my mentor. If anybody had passed through him, they would have met God. We were in the church the last Sunday before his death and he called me and one Mrs Kadiri and said in Yoruba Ijo o di owo e o, (the church is in your hand).

     

    Press Secretary, National Expert Committee (NEC) and a traditional medicine practitioner, Dr Lambo Adebisi.

    I had known the late professor for over 10 years ago. I met him at a period when traditional medicine was trying to get official recognition. It was Chief Olajuwon Okubena that brought the idea that practitioners should come together to promote traditional medicine. An idea that the late Prof Akinadewo supported and gave his all. He built bridges and brought warring factions together. I got to know him better after he retired as Director-General of Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA). He did not depart from developing the practice. The deceased promoted traditional medicine and encouraged others to do same. He was a goal getter and a good listener. He did not relent in promoting the practice. He was always going to Abuja, Kaduna and other states, to ensure collaboration, especially with government agencies and parasatals such as Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Science and Technology. The late Prof Akinadewo was interested in knowing how much people understand him. He always wanted to impact knowledge. He was a good Christian who feared God. He always alluded to the Bible when teaching or talking to people.

     

  • Let’s get natural

    Let’s get natural

    HAVE you ever wondered about the secrets behind the astonishing glow of our fore-fathers’/mothers’ skins? Black soap, also known as African Black Soap (Anago Soap, Alata Simena, or Ose Dudu), has long been used to heal skin problems. It is good for thinning fine lines, evening out dark spots, eczema, razor bumps and eliminating blemishes. It is also used to lightly exfoliate and give you healthier looking skin.

    The soap can also be used on your body or hair or for oily skin, dry skin, skin rashes, scalp irritations, body odours and is good for sensitive skin. The black soap has got different skin beautifying properties like vitamins A, E and iron. You could basically mix your soap to what you want it to do for you, add some amount of shea butter for UV protection, coconut oil and honey for the baby-like glow.

    Camwood or African sandalwood are also naturally derived from tree barks, grounded and mixed with black soap or used alone as exfoliants and or added to some of the skincare products out there. The benefits of naturally derived skincare products outweigh that of the chemically derived ones; they have skin healing properties that can help get rid of most skin problems a lot of people face and they also help keep the skin balanced and stay in its possible youthful state.