Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nobel Prizes in Medicine 2015 [The Prize and Indigenous Medicine]

Obi Nwakanma:

I don't know what your Grandmother's "Ogwu iba" cured, but my Grandfather was a medicine man, and his "ogun iba" cured fever ("ogun" - medicine; "iba" - fever, in Yoruba.)

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com> wrote:

Even my own grandmother knew "Ogwu Iba"- and should have won the Nobel prize for medicine:-) Not to talk about the great Dibia, Nwogu Avagharaisi - he whose "ogwu" was without compare. He cured from elephantiasis of the scrotum, to the madness that had already entered the  market. He did not need the Nobel prize. The Nobel prize needed him him oi! oi! oi!

Obi Nwakanma

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> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nobel Prizes in Medicine 2015 [The Prize and Indigenous Medicine]

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> The power of Indigenous Medicine is finally recognized by the Nobel folks.
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> Better late than never. The message from this is that you must never allow
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> Responses to 'Tu for her work on a therapy against malaria, Artemisinin from Chinese plant Quinghosu has saved ...millions. She is the first to win from a work on Chinese medicine.'- AnoDavinci Ebirim<https://www.facebook.com/anozie?fref=ufi>
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> '... working in China, Tu was searching through herbal remedies in the hope of finding new leads for malaria treatments. She found that an extract from the plant Artemisia annua was sometimes effective, but the results were inconsistent. After more research, she hit on the active compound in the plant, a chemical that became known as artemisinin, a new class of antimalarials that kill malaria parasites at an early stage of development.'
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> Precious Goggins<https://www.facebook.com/precious.goggins?fref=ufi> And dogoyaro [ a herbal medicine famous in Nigeria] just dey there unexplored. Dr una dey?
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> AnoDavinci Ebirim<https://www.facebook.com/anozie?fref=ufi> Apparently Dogonyaro contains quinine... It has been in use for a long time... It's efficacy isn't in doubt, but artemisinin saved medicine from impending doom. Just when almost all drugs were failing, it came up as saviour
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> The New Scientist <http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/05/william-c-campbell-satoshi-omura-and-youyou-tu-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine#img-1> ran a lengthy profile of Tu<https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228382-000-the-modest-woman-who-beat-malaria-for-china/> - the 12th woman to win the medicine prize - shortly after she won the Lasker prize in 2011. Tu was part of a secret drug discovery project set up by Mao Zedong in 1967 known only as Project 523. She was sent to Hainan province to see the impact of malaria for herself, meaning she had to leave her daughter behind at a local nursery. When she came back she says her daughter did not recognise her. <http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/05/william-c-campbell-satoshi-omura-and-youyou-tu-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine#img-1>
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> "The work was the top priority, so I was certainly willing to sacrifice my personal life," she said. "I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly."
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> The medicine award was the first Nobel prize to be announced. The winners of the physics, chemistry and peace prizes are set to be announced later this week. The economics prize will be announced next Monday. No date has been set yet for the literature prize, but it is expected to be announced on Thursday.
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> Meanwhile, working in China, Tu was searching through herbal remedies in the hope of finding new leads for malaria treatments. She found that an extract from the plant Artemisia annua was sometimes effective, but the results were inconsistent. After more research, she hit on the active compound in the plant, a chemical that became known as artemisinin, a new class of antimalarials that kill malaria parasites at an early stage of development.
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> The New Scientist ran a lengthy profile of Tu<https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228382-000-the-modest-woman-who-beat-malaria-for-china/> - the 12th woman to win the medicine prize - shortly after she won the Lasker prize in 2011. Tu was part of a secret drug discovery project set up by Mao Zedong in 1967 known only as Project 523. She was sent to Hainan province to see the impact of malaria for herself, meaning she had to leave her daughter behind at a local nursery. When she came back she says her daughter did not recognise her.

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> "The work was the top priority, so I was certainly willing to sacrifice my personal life," she said. "I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly."
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> The medicine award was the first Nobel prize to be announced. The winners of the physics, chemistry and peace prizes are set to be announced later this week. The economics prize will be announced next Monday. No date has been set yet for the literature prize, but it is expected to be announced on Thursday.
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> Associated Press contributed to this report
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