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Health & Healing


























             A Specialist in Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Phytomedicine Re-
            search, Rev Father Anselm Gbenga Adodo, a Monk of the Benedictine Monastery,
            is the Founder and Director of Nigeria’s foremost herbal research Institute, the Pax
            Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, popularly called Paxherbals based in Ewu,
             Edo State Nigeria. His work and dedication are evidence that high quality, well-re-
                        searched soluions are available for and in Afrika.

          dying. We can prevent the condition   enough immunity to quell whatever
          through herbal tonified teas that   emerging diseases may come along,
          boost your immunity, detoxify you   such that even if you get Covid-19
          and can challenge mild viral load.   it will be just like another flu. The
          Teas are cheaper, they are easier to   truth is, those who have a dying
          access, we will have them readily   condition, those noncommunicable
          available from this week in Nairo-  diseases: diabetes, hypertension, ar-
          bi, in Nyeri and wherever else our   thritis, are most vulnerable and they
          people might need. I am saying it is   are the ones who are dying fastest.
          up to us to develop a cure. It is up   So, the healthier you live, the health-
          to us to very quickly develop a local   ier you eat, the more you run away
          strategy of surviving the Covid-19.   from the polluted urban setting to
          Otherwise, it will be ironical for us   rural areas, the higher your chance
          to expect those who developed the   of surviving Covid-19 and many of
          disease, who spread the disease to   those other emerging diseases that
          us, whose agenda is to exterminate   are before us.
          us; it is ironical to expect them to
          help us prevent dying from the same   At the very least, think about
          cause. Commonsense.                these things and research them.
                                             I know some people feel uncom-
          In addition to teas, what else can   fortable with this whole conversa-
          they get from the clinic?          tion and they would rather trust
          We are encouraging our people to   that the information that they are
          develop habits of eating organic   getting is a 100% accurate. But
          foods, we are telling our people a   there is a lot of  information out
          lot of the chemical foods they are   there that you can look at to find
          eating are compromising their im-  options and alternatives in this
          munity, they are compromising the   whole Covid-19 scenario that you
          functioning of their major organs:   may not have heard of  from your
          the liver, the heart, the kidneys and   mainstream media. It is no joke
          the brain etc. And that by eating   what we are facing, but together,
          chemical-free food, you nourish    as you have heard him say, we
          your body without poisoning it, and   can more than overcome, we can
          you enhance your body to develop   thrive.


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