If you derobe human character of all make up, you would discover beneath all intellectual sophistry a human being who is either a giver or a taker. Givers not only joyfully part with their money and property, and give of their being, they share their experiences as well. Takers are selfish, parasitic, unhelpful… and much more.
By stepping on a world stage through Instagram to announce he was prostate cancer challenged, Prof Pat Utomi rekindled interest and conversations on prostate cancer from which many Nigerian men must profit. While Prof Utomi may not have heard of urologist Prof. Kingsley Ekwueme who was reported on this page on August 24, 2023 to be in Nigeria from the United Kingdom with 150-minute surgical cure, their paths may meet. For there are no coincidences. On the other hand, I cannot consider to be a giver Prof. Ekweme’s patient who gave a voice testimonial in the video through which this historic laparascopic keyhole camera surgery became known to some persons. I will come to that later.
Meanwhile, I will like to acknowledge anothergiver on this subject. He is Mr Kolade Roberts, a retired civil servant in Lagos State. He shared the column with hundreds of his friends. That is giving of what one has received or taken from the richly laden table of the wonderful creation of our God. He shared the column, also, with Professor Kingsley Ekwueme who, meanwhile, had returned to the United Kingdom. Prof Ekwueme was suprised that a small public presentation he came to make in Nigeria had been recognised by a columnist he had never met, and did not know he existed, and blown beyond nationwide proportions to a global audience. Prof Ekwueme told Mr Roberts he was billed to return to Nigeria in September to carry out about 50 surgeries. Some of the patients are coming to Nigeria from abroad.
When I heard that, I was close to tears, because such reports stir my inner feelings. I saw Professor Ekwueme in his own little way kindling our hope of making Nigeria become a haven for medical tourism. We need not always be downcast that our doctors are going abroad. Here is one example that, under the right circumstances, they can become givers to the tax payers whose toil and money gave them their medical wings in Nigeria.
Mr Roberts and Professor Ekwueme are now talking pals. In another conversation, Mr Roberts asked Professor Ekwueme how much his miracle prostate cancer surgery could cost. The professor replied that, in Nigeria, money was not his concern. Were money his concern, he would ask his Nigerian patients to come to his clinic in the U.K. All he desired was to see joy on the faces and in the hearts of his fellow country men. That gave him, joy, and this was why he preferred to be coming to Nigeria to ensure that no Nigerian needlessly died of prostate cancer.
When I heard this, I wondered if there were governors in Nigeria like Lucky Igbinedion, former governor of Edo State. He was governor when Catholic Reverend Father Anslem Adodo was preparing his PAX Herbal Remedies in the open at the Ewu monastery. I was priviledged to witness this during a visit to him at the monastery by members of the National Council of physicians of natural medicine(NCPNM) of which I am a Fellow. Liquid formulations were cooked in the open. From far and wide, sick persons came for these medicines. Father Adodo made them so cheap that he could hardly pay the dues of local persons who sourced these herbs from the wild. Governor Igbinedion heard about this. He was intrigued that the government could not provide primary and secondary health care services in the area father Adodo catered for. So, he gave father Adodo a huge sum of money to build a factory and a laboratory for research and quality control and to employ quality staff. PAX herbal centre herbal products are sold nationwide today. There is even a pax herbal centre natural medicine hospital at the GRA, Ikeja, Lagos. I ask: Are there no governors in Nigeria, including that of the home state of Prof Ekwueme, who can provide facilities to help him care for the growing number of prostate cancer challenged persons in Nigeria, and, in addition, train urologists in this rate art? If there are, and they give of their offices and persons, they would be fufilling a natural law of a healthy balance in taking and giving. Their constituents made them governors, hoping for a better coin in return. If , as Professor Ekwueme says, 1,000 men out of 100,000 men in Lagos are diagnosed with prostate cancer, supporting this venture to save the lives of these men is definitely a good way to give something back to society.
From Professor Ekwueme, I return to his Nigerian patient who spoke in camera in the video presentation of laparoscopic keyhole camera surgery in Nigeria. He would not show his face or give his name or face the cameras to give increase believability in the Nigerian success story Prof Ekweme announced to the world, beginning from Lagos , Nigeria. Every adult male resident of Lagos should be worried about the story Prof. Ekwueme told which this beneficiary of a prostate cancer cure did not support well in my view.The story line is…
1) 1000 in every 100,000 men in Lagos are prostate cancer challenged.
2) Under the old cancer surgery methods, patients may spend weeks convalescing in the hospital . They suffer prostatic nerve damage and may never be able to have an erection afterwards, with unpleasant post-surgical sexual experiences.
3) The historic surgical process takes about two and a half hours.Nerves are spared and the patient may leave the hospital next day and resume his sexual relationships, still a perfect man. Prof Ekwueme’s patient is entitled to his privacy , no doubt. I am only thinking of how many other men he may have been able to spare the horror of old fashioned prostate surgery and of how many lives he may have even helped to save if he was more of a giver.
The patient only said: “I feel very good because I have not seen this type of surgery before. No open surgery, no losing of blood. After surgery, I ate dinner that evening. I am walking around, you can see me walking around. Health care in Nigeria is something I cannot explain. I have money to do it abroad, but I prefer doing it in Nigeria because what am I going there to do? Our people say what is in Sokoto dey for sokoto, but they don’t know. This is the surgery, I have done it. Very successful. Keyhole surgery”.
For persons who do not understand the saying Sokoto (m:m:m) is 960.75 kilometers by road from Lagos. Sokoto(d:d:d) is the native trouser. This means you do not need to travel 960.7 kilometers in search of what is in your trouser pocket in Lagos.
“It is better to give than to receive”, the Christian scriptures teach us. Many people who express this statement or such others like Givers Never Lack may not realise The Law of Giving And Taking, one of the basic laws of nature which governs our world and our lives, constitute the language which the Almighty Creator speaks to us every moment of our existence here on earth and in the here after. I will mention only about five of the effects of The Law of Giving and Taking on our bodies to encourage us to become giving not just takers.
1) We all breathe. No one can inhale but fail to exhale and hope to live. Inhalation of air is taking from the environment while exhalation is giving back to that environment.
2) Who can drink water but fail to perspire or to urinate and hope to be healthy or to live? Even plants transpire, giving off through the leaves water brought to them from the soil by their roots.
3)We eat. Who doesn’t experience constipation when the quantum of expulsions does not match the consumption?
4) Glaucoma patients have more fluid than they should in the back chamber of the eye(s) which is not draining out fast enough from the front chamber. The back up in the back chamber creates pressure on the optic nerve and damages it, a cause of blindness. This is a case of receiving and not giving out. When we receive blessings, we must joyfully become a source of blessings to other persons.
5) The eye is not the only organ which may breach The Law of Giving and Taking. Various organs break this law. Medicine describes the infarction as Venous Congestion. In the circulation of the blood from the heart round the body and back to the heart, a journey which must also obey The Law of Motion and The Law of The Cycle, in which everything in motion ends up where it started off , arteries distribute blood, nutrients and oxygen to the organs while veins bring back to the heart the used blood. Sometimes, it happens that not all the blood an artery brings to an organ is released for a return journey to the heart through the veins. Overtime, unnecessary accumulations exist in defaulting organs. We all know what happens when a drainage flows sluggishly. The dregs in the water soon settle here and there. This, too, occurs in organs which do not release as much blood as they receive in the condition described as venous congestion. This is a possible cause of Uterine Fibroids which may regrow even after surgery if the underlying problem is not resolved. In prostate cancer, too, venous congestion may be at play.
Other Infractions
There may be a thousand and one causes of prostate cancer, in addition to second chakra blockage mentioned in the 24 August 2023 edition. Within the limits of time and space , some other possibilities , but not all , which have been making the rounds in scientific studies, will be mentioned below…
Helpful Remedies
For the prevention, management and possible cures of all conditions, there are several remedies. For example, every chakra has a particular colour vibration in which it vibrates. The second chakra vibrates in yellow colour. Thus, it is often advised that persons who need help for this chakra can wear yellow underbriefs. They may also eat fruits, vegetables and herbs which have yellow signature tunes. Similarly, they may drink water solarised in yellow bottles or in clear bottles wrapped in yellow filter papers and solarised. Solarisation is keeping water as described in the sun from sunrise to sunset. The yellow bottle or yellow paper filter permits extraction into the water of only the yellow ethers of sunlight. These ethers then enrich and awaken its homogenous vibrations in the organ, a development akin to jump-starting an inactive car battery with an active one. These remedies are important because some cancers regrow after successful surgeries, where their root causes are not eliminated
Zinc
Zinc shortfalls in the prostate gland is the problem of many persons. The prostate gland has the largest requirement of zinc for many reasons. Zinc is needed in other parts of the body as well. In the prostate gland, it checks the overstimulation of cells by 5- Alpha Reductase, an enzyme . When there is a zinc shortfall for whatever reason(s) including ejaculation losses which are not replaced, 5 Alpha Reductase may stimulate prostate gland enlargement or cancer.
Venous Congestion
The arteries bring blood to the organs and the veins take used blood back to the heart. Sometimes, veins and capillaries in the prostate gland are blocked, cause inadequate evacuation and congestion. Germs proliferate in congestions. So do toxins, wastes, other free radicals and oxygen deficiency. Such cases may cause reversal of tissue from oxidative (oxygen using) life to the fermentative (non oxygen dependent) life of tumours and cancers. Improved blood circulation and oxygenation through food and ozone injections may help. Congested colon may leak poisons, germs and free radicals into the prostate gland. Sometimes, the gland is invaded by flat worms which the digestive system should have killed. Their survival of the digestive process suggests that a challenged person may have digestive enzymes shortfalls. Supplementation of these in the diet may help. Raw pawpaw leaves provides all these proteolytic enzymes. So do black pawpaw seeds which are said to have anti cancer potentials. When I eat the leaves of pawpaw or these seeds, I smell them in my urine about an hour or two later, they have helped to kill germs not only in the intestine and blood , but in the urinary system and in the prostate gland as well.
Orange peel
The green peel has anti-histamine factors which recommend it for asthma and other respiratory system problems. It is also a blood sugar balancer.Elevated blood sugar feeds cancer growth and fungal growth. By depriving cancer of sugar, its power may be cut. Besides, scientists are studying orange peel for anti cancer activities. Some doctors co authored a book titled: Cancer is a fungus. It shows the relationship between fungal proliferation in an organ and the onset of cancer in it.
Hormones
Sometimes, the male hormone, testosterone, is blamed and doctors remove the testes to stop the testosterone fuel. I have seen several cases in which the cancer bowed before this measure but later aggressively flared .Sometimes, the tissues of many persons are too acidic and all the alkaline minerals may have become exhausted in a fruitless effort to stem this tide. An organ which cannot stand acidosis will cave in, no doubt. In this case, cooked food should be de emphasised. Alkalizing fruits such as Graviola (sour sop), kiwi, pawpaw, avocado pear,beetroot , noni, olives, garden egg should dominate the raw diet. They not only provide the body with potassium , which cancer cannot stand , but are less streanous to digest as well. This frees some energy for immune function.
Anti Micrbials
Just as we humans populate choice places on planet earth, germs of all sorts like to inhabit different parts of our bodies. Nature offers us help against them in several antimicrobial herbs we can eat, one morsel per one raw leaf, with every meal. Besides your meal, have another bowl filled with raw leaves. Masticate them with every morsel until they form a gruel.
Proprietaries
One proprietary formula which may be indirectly useful but scarce in Nigeria is the Canadian made matol. It parades some potassium rich herbs. Let’s remember that Dr Max Gerson used potassium rich juices to cure some cancers. Matol helps to stimulate production of Natural Killers (NK) cells which help to devour cancer cells.There are other formulas such as Amazon prostate support, prostate health, prosta plus, easy flow tea etc. Of course, there is Maria Treben’s swedish bitters formula from a man killed in a horse racing accident at the age of 103. This non alcoholic blend which is free of preservatives can be used in about 42 different ways,many of which synergically improve health by cleaning the system.
Essential Fats
We cannot exhaust nature’s treasure trove. We have not even examined Bill Anderson’s suggestions in his book Cancer Free mentioned in the first part of this series. Oils eases rigidity. When a key does not turn in the lock, or to prevent the Piston and rings in a mechanical engine from wearing or knocking, or when certain parts of the engine of a motor car are getting stiff, we apply the specific oils to ease out the rigidity. A cancerous organ is a rigid organ. Nature provides essential fatty acids in all organs to free them of rigidity. Thus, there is nothing in existence which does not have its own lubricating oil, leaves, the bark of trees, roots, herbs, animals all have their own oils. In humans, we know of omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9, all essential fatty acids. In particular, omega-3 is well known for its anti inflammatory functions. Inflammation is the beginning of many problems in the tissue which may result in a cancer. Thus, it is suggested that, for the prevention, management and cure of prostate cancer, large doses of omega-3 fatty acids be included in the diet.
Givers, takers
Does a relationship exist between an imbalance in giving and taking which predisposes a taker to the onset of diseases such as cancer? From anthropology and sociology, we can distinguish from physical body types a Yoruba man from an Ethiopean man, an Ibo man from a Zairian, a Nigerian/Hausa Fulani man from a Rwandan. Body types may be a character testimonial just as shapes suggest professional acumen, since the human spirit, the ego which some persons call spirit-man, form the human body is housing and tool on earth. So, since the human spirit is the one who TAKES and GIVES, does the nature of the human spirit connote which behaviours his organs will express?
