Ewedu can cure Ebola-LUTH Consultant

Professor Adebukola Adefule Oshitelu has declared that ‘Genus Corchorus’ locally known as Ewedu has the potency to cure the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD and to also prevent uninfected persons from the virus by boosting the immune system.

Professor Oshitelu, a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, while speaking at the 2014 African Traditional Medicine organised by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, claimed that Ewedu cures Ebola by improving the immune system of an infected person, likewise providing prevention against the deadly virus for uninfected persons.

Oshintelu said this in Ikeja, Lagos state at a programme organized for Traditional Medicine Practitioners and Conventional Medicine Practitioners in response to an urgent need for cooperation between the two health bodies to enhance a better and reliable healthcare delivery system in Nigeria.

“The qualities inside Ewedu is so much that it will kill Ebola by preventing the virus from replicating and destroying more organs in the body. This would immediately stop the symptoms such as high fever, stooling, vomiting and ultimately leading to the cure”. She further advised people to consume Ewedu on a regular basis but with strict adherence to the usage and preparation.

“The way it will be prepared will be different from the normal way they cook it. It should be washed and rinsed with liquid vinegar, afterwards blend and cook with drinkable water. No salt, potash or seasoning should be added, take 25cl of the concoction a week and it would boost a person’s immunity so that they become impregnable to the virus.” Oshitelu firmly added.

Meanwhile, in a strict effort to fight illegal herbs advertisements in Nigeria, Paul Orhii, Director General, NAFDAC, ably represented at the programme by Stella Denloye, Director, Laboratory Service, NAFDAC, said in a statement that it has banned illegal advertisement of herbal products and bogus claims of cure for diseases.

“Unpatriotic Nigerians who continue to engage in illegal advert of their products and those making false claims not evaluated by NAFDAC should desist from acts misleading the unsuspecting public. I want to warn and inform them that NAFDAC would deal decisively with anyone found to contravene,” Orhii said emphatically.

He noted that there was the need to institutionalize traditional medicine in the health systems worldwide including Nigeria.

He further said that the stigmatizing of the traditional health care by modern/conventional medicine needed to stop. So much that in some countries, it is even illegal to practice it.

“Regulation is the key to ensuring that only good quality, safe and effective traditional/ herbal medicines are available to consumers especially if traditional medicine and complementary medicine is to be integrated into the nation’s healthcare system,” Orhii summed.

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