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that they were learning witchcraft. fever. We don’t fragment our make any drugs, they administer
I told her to report to the police medicine to address a symptom; drugs made by others and they
then send them home. Then I we use what we call ‘cocktail administer them the way they
changed my mind and instead therapy’ where a conglomeration are told to do, with very little
stopped what I was doing and of compounds is administered understanding of what it is, except
travelled back. I sent them home. together: some to address the what they are told. With us, we
Apparently the doctor had said he invading microorganism, others to prospect for the therapeutic
would get them somewhere else to stimulate the sluggish body, others material, whatever they are,
go and learn and when they went to repair the damaged tissue and wherever they are available and
it wasn’t there. So they came back others to boost the immunity. If the we procure the material. We
to me because I had booked them three of us are bitten by the same even do the mapping. If you need
for national examination council mosquito, maybe one will get it, plants that manage Malaria, what
and they pleaded with me to let two don’t get sick depending on are they? Where are they? What
them sit for the examinations. (We our immunity. So sickness is an ecological zone are they found
used to give them our diploma and indication of sluggish immunity, in? What part of the plant do you
we used to make sure they would because our body is made to cope use? How do you harvest it? How
sit for the national equivalent a with whatever challenges are in do you treat it immediately after
national examination because of the ecosystem, wherever we live. harvesting? How do you transport
the stigma.) I told them to go to the It is when we are weak because it (because some of them are
police first, record a statement of we don’t eat well, because very perishable)?There’s a lot we
what had transpired. That’s when emotionally we are not stable, that need to do and we do much more,
the whole story came out. it gives in to infection. So we use nearly seven times more than
I realized you know going on with that holistic approach. a conventional doctor does and
the school there would risk my We have a medicine that has in spite of that we are still ‘witch
own life and that of my family, so biocidal capacity to kill germs, we people’, ‘illiterate’, ‘primitive’ and
I suspended the program and I have medicine that has nutritive ‘backward’. This is the terminology
continued the network of clinics complementarity to addresses they keep on using. It’s a very
until 2007. The tribal clashes of deficiencies that go with sickness involving undertaking. That’s why,
2007 destroyed all my centers (vitamins, minerals) or will end traditionally, it took a lifetime and
except Nyeri and Nairobi out of 16 up being complications of certain traditionally it went with families,
centers. We never even picked a disease because of sluggish because, people who had that
file. Even when things normalized, metabolism, sluggish absorption talent had to be exposed very early
having been a victim in ‘92, ‘97 and digestion. Then we have a to master the whole spectrum of
and 2007 and with my age now, I third component. Any sick body knowledge involved.
didn’t want to travel too much. I ask is sluggish, sleepy, can’t walk; we
people to come where I’m safest, have a compound in our medicine GMO... “
others we send medicine to. that stimulates bodily function.
Traditional Medicine Works Better They are catalytic compounds. is sabotage.
The medicine works better than They stimulate heartbeat, the
others for very very good scientific breathing in and out, the digestion,
Safeguarding Afrikan Wisdom
reasons, because they are so that the sluggishness is
Afrika and Asia are the only two
holistic. In conventional medicine, corrected by normalization of
continents that were colonized
they design their drugs to address normal bodily functioning. And
symptoms, signs of sickness. the last one, we have immuno- and didn’t die out. We failed to die
If there is a headache, what regulators. That sluggish immunity, out because of our wisdom and
our way of life and our spirituality,
suppresses that pain -period. In if it’s not addressed, even if we cure
because of our capacity to coexist
holistic healing, the Afrikan way, the disease you are suffering from,
with reality - because colonialism
we deal with the whole organism, then you are vulnerable to others
because we know - even when because the defense system of became a reality. Enemies ‘more
you have Malaria, you have the your body is compromised. We powerful than you’ have confronted
you, are out to exterminate you.
germs within you, they affect the remove the germs, correct the
We used our traditional dynamic to
liver, they affect metabolism, nutritional deficiency, stimulate the
survive it and ultimately neutralize
they affect digestion and you body and enhance the immunity
are sluggish. And for us to treat so that once you recover you don’t it to an extent we are still here
Malaria, we address the germs, get the same or other diseases and that we can speak our own
languages, we can articulate a lot
and also provide compounds because the defense system has
of our culture, these are powers
that will help repair the damaged been enhanced.
we shouldn’t let go. Traditional
cells, the damaged liver and the Conventional clinicians don’t
medicine is one of them. Traditional
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