Former acting Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Anthony Elujoba, who is a professor of Pharmacognosis at the Pharmacy Department of the university, tells FEMI MAKINDE that the National Assembly should pass the Traditional Medicine Council Bill to make its practice a top-notch
Have these plants that can treat these symptoms been compounded into herbal mixture, tablets, or capsules? I don’t agitate too much about things. I wait for God to do whatever he can do about it. The WAHO invitation came miraculously, so, I believe God can do it. I do go round to meet people, I am always in my laboratory working in my way to make the country great by what I do. If the government calls me, I am ready, they use me a lot and anytime they call me, I don’t object but I don’t go about pressing buttons.
Since there is no known cure for COVID-19 and you believe that there are herbal products that can manage the cases, will you be willing to try the herbal drugs on infected monkeys to show their efficacy? No. But fortunately, the Ooni is my father. Mine is to go to the laboratory and make known what I found out there.The WHO/Afro Office has done a lot. The office has given a lot to every developing country in Africa to certify traditional medicine and to institutionalise traditional medicine practice. Traditional medicine should be approved the same way orthodox medicine is approved. Some countries had perfected this.
The traditional medical team will need Oxygen while treatment is going on, that's the only way the government can allow you to treat patients infected with the virrus
Some of our medical doctors and pharmacy's will never support that.. Bcos they belive people will render then useless They forget we are Africa not America or Asian Let be proud of our heritage Ire oo
This should be taken serious!!
Errr, you want to use people as guinea pigs? Yes, herbal alternatives is a very welcome development but we must hold it to the same standards as laboratory drugs.
Let us seek God the Author of Wisdom then we can get a cure
And a lot of our people will prefer that to the other.
BS! Please sit down there. We only consider foreign solutions to our problems. How dare you? 😠
The government has failed to understand that Nigeria is blessed with abundant resources. We lack good governance. The cure of Corona virus is with us but it is being blatantly disregarded.
We need to look inward, we are not Europeans or Americans, so what works for them can’t work for us Bcos we different genetically, environmentally and culturally so why are we always copy and paste what Europeans or Americans does ?
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Necessary. While awaiting drugs from US, UK etc let's use our God giving gift
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