Any disease is a challenge if there is no cure for it. Diseases that once were a menace to the world such as Small Pox, Yaws and plagues are not heard of today. Solutions were found to neutralize them. But that doesn’t mean that we no longer have diseases menacing the world. One such a menace is the African Swine Fever that recently wiped out a large population of pigs in China. And now the Corona virus that has put the whole world on edge. But there is something interesting about how the word operates. The pig population in china was not nearly wiped out because there was no medicine to cure the disease. This unfortunate incident happened because there is no oneness in the world today. People often refer the world today as ‘the global village’ but that may not in some respect be true. Medicine Africana Consortium of Uganda has had for many years a herbal viral medicine that has successfully treated many pigs effected by the African Swine fever. The medicine does not only treat the dis...
There is a conflict between doctors and herbalists in Uganda and the whole of east Africa. But when you look at it properly, it is a pointless preoccupation. Are both not equally engaged in the fight against diseases and human suffering? When an herbalist is afflicted by a disease best treated by a doctor, he runs to the doctor. Equally when a doctor is afflicted by a disease he feels can best be treated by an herbalist, he runs to the herbalist. The source of this pointless conflict is routed in our past. The colonialists, in order to rule over us, made it a point to undermine our culture. Our knowledge of medicine was one of the cultural arrears most affected by this ill will. In Teso region of Uganda, school children were taught in school a song that talks of one ‘Aducho’ (a female herbalist) being ‘Ibangana’ (stupid). When we gained independence, we did almost nothing to reverse this. Our doctors are not taught about African medicine in our medical schools. When you do not know so...
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