A traditional medicine practitioner has recommended okan, known botanically as Cylicodiscus gabunensis or African greenheart and sorghum bicolor for the management of anaemia and other diseases, such as cancer and HIV.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Health Forever Product Limited, Olajuwon Okubena, said conventional medicine across the world has not found an effective solution to anemia.
He said this is despite the fact that the problem of blood appears to be central to many aspects of healthcare.
Okubena said blood is very critical to the treatment of cancer and HIV.
“The conventional system of chemotherapy for cancer and anti-retroviral drugs for HIV destroys the blood cells to the extent that blood transfusion becomes inevitable for the survival of the patient”.
He said most popular drugs used in the United States by doctors to boost hematocrit (blood volume) of patients have a lot of side effects, such as seizure, hypertension. This, he said, was despite the fact that they could only achieve less than five per cent increase in blood level over a period of more than four weeks.
Besides, it is also expensive and the method of administration through intravenous system makes it unaffordable for the ordinary people.
He said African Traditional Medicine (ATM) is rich in plants that have been in use in medicine for anemia without problems.
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