Dear Gloria,
Thank you for for drawing our attention to the potential of African traditional medical practionners in the war against COVID-19. My compatriot, Valentin Agon has already put in place a product that has been tested last week on patients in Burkina Faso where he is also professionally active. The clinical trials are in process at a larger scale.
But I agree with you that there is a potential for African practionners to explore. But this could not be a sustainable projet without a sovereign support of our governments. The money involved is so huge that pharmaceutical firms won't be far from it...
Patrick
Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY
Assistant Professor,
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Abomey-Calavi
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,(2014-2016)
www.researchgate.net/Profile/Emery_Effiboley
Le dimanche 29 mars 2020 à 08:11:37 UTC+1, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> a écrit :
Africa's traditional medical practitioners are in search of a cure for the corona virus. Let us support them fully.
Practitioners in Mali, Benin and Ethiopia seem to be on the trail, and all eyes should be on them. We wish them success on behalf of humanity.
To that sizable group of skeptics and "doubting Thomases"- who are prone to present a litany of woes and indictments against traditional medicine, there is one question I want to ask:
Where do you think chloroquine came from? For generations, Native American traditional practitioners utilized the bark of the cinchona tree in the fight against malaria, and eventually saved thousands of lives around the globe in the process. The pharmaceutical corporations took note, at some point, creating synthetic versions of the plant, whose molecular structure they deciphered. Trials of chloroquine, for coping with the corona virus is proceeding as we speak.
So is there not another tree bark with parallel or even greater potential, in Africa's local therapeutic and pharmaceutical arsenal?
The search by the local traditional scientists must go on. They need governmental and public support and, thankfully, in some cases seem to be getting that.
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The Cinchona tree and its bark
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