RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "Ewedu" can prevent and cure Ebola - LUTH consultant

Thanks for this information, Kola. This is very useful information from Prof Isitelu
by Azoma Chikwe.

Ewedu may be one of the immune boosters we are looking for. There are numerous
local plants with great efficacy for boosting the immune system.
Indeed let us find more of them. Traditional practitioners and the western trained
must work together in identification and analysis.

Western pharmaceutical companies usually identify the molecular structure of
plants they identify as potent, from informants around the world. They then follow
this up with laboratory testing to create synthetic versions for mass production,
sales and exports at exorbitant costs.

Institutions like Pax Herbals of Edo State - www.PaxHerbals.net<http://www.paxherbals.net/> - suggest a bright future.
Professor Okogun, Professor of Natural Product Chemistry, works with a team of
microbiologists and traditional and western trained botanists and chemists at Pax Herbals.
I hope that they would have a look at ewedu - if they have not already done so.

Dr. Anselm Adodo, the Director of Pax Herbals Clinic and Research Labs informed me that
the instituion also cultivates local herbs. I hope ewedu is included.

I am sending this information over to a Liberia list but one major issue arises.
What are the local names for ewedu in Liberia?



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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "Ewedu" can prevent and cure Ebola - LUTH consultant

"Ewedu" can prevent and cure Ebola - LUTH consultant
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By AZOMA CHIKWE<http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?author=2>

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A consultant at the Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Professor Adebukola Ositelu, has said Ewedu which is known in English as the Long-Fruited vegetable, is capable of preventing and curing the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by boosting the immune system.
Ositelu stated this at the annual African Traditional Medicine Day organised by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday, at Ikeja, Lagos.
According to her, the vegetable had a high potency to boost the immune system such that it's usage would prevent an individual from being infected with Ebola, or get rid of the virus in the case of an infected person.
She, however, noted that chances of being cured by an intake of Ewedu when a victim has gotten to the stage of vomiting was low, but could still be administered.
Ositelu, who is a professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Lagos, Akoka (UNILAG), said to administer the 'treatment', the Ewedu should be rinsed thoroughly with liquid vinegar "blend and cook with drinkable water, without adding salt or kaun (pottash) or any other ingredients; then take a 25cl or half a tumbler measure once a week, first thing in the morning before any meal" for prevention, adding that those already infected should take it every morning for seven to five days.

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