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because the best way to assess pyrethrum was wild. I think I have Period. They are inseparable. In
any therapy and any healer is better plants than coffee, tea and our culture, the diet, interaction
through the patients. He agreed. pyrethrum. with people and spirituality are
He saw so many people that he inseparable. Then there’s the
gave the story 2-page coverage. MA: What would be your family dynamics. The Afrikan
He also organized for me to go to counsel to Afrikans or Kenyans family dynamic is therapeutic.
TV, because his parents were my concerning health and The harmony. These conflicts,
patients, his wife was my patient. wellness? depressed people, they murder
That’s how he came to know about Dr. Githae: They have to go back each other -see what is going on?
me. to traditional lives. You are what The violence is a sign of sickness.
I created a monograph, where you eat. They have to go back to Emotional and physical imbalance
I have all medicinal plants, chemical-free foods and holistic and you can’t handle them through
coded. They have a folio number. foods, not fatty foods. Fermented courts. I think the traditional mode
Then I have a whole section of porridge, for instance, is medicinal, of life and mode of interaction have
the monograph covering what it’s very high in vitamin K; it’s not to come up and you need model
diseases that plant covers in the same as ordinary porridge. centers where you have these
humans. Another section outlines Ugali (pap, nsima, sima) made of integrated traditional dynamics at
what diseases, the same plant blended floor, of course, such as play, where people can break away
treats in livestock, what are the cassava, sorghum, finger millet. for a weekend and taste it and
uses the same plant has in crop All those have different properties, live it actualize it, learn it and go
protection for instance, and can when they are put together… propagate it. How about that?
it be used for cabbages, carrots that’s the Afrikan way of doing
or to fight pests? Then we have things. That’s why even in our
a section for other multipurpose herbal medicine, we never use
uses for all plants. At the end I one plant. Even in the traditional
have coded known compounds in dishes, the food our people, my
the same plants. I’m doing 20,000 mother cooked had maize beans “
medicinal plants in the world. I peas, thoroko (cow pea leaves),
had Chinese, Spanish, Russian vegetables, pumpkin leaves, and Tea is herbal medicine.
literature translated and eventually then we have amaranth, bananas,
there will be an encyclopedia. That potatoes which were then mashed
will be my greatest contribution together. What isn’t in that food?
in this area before I retire, God And you know, when they talk
willing. I’m doing that because about vaccine for malaria, many For health questions, counsel and
with that you come out with the of our traditional vegetables can even how to reach Dr Githae, please
reach us at:
very best and then you come out prevent malaria. Many. Including wehearyou@msingiafrikamagazine.com
with alternative plants. Some of managu (Afrikan nightshade) can or call: +254738489470
the plants we are using are so prevent. Nourish you and prevent
sensitive they’re just about to malaria. It’s not like spinach; it’s not
be extinct. Yet they are weeds like kale, they have no chemicals.
we burn, weeds we bury which Our people have to go back to
are better medicines than the traditional diets; they have to have
threatened plants we are using. the food made the traditional way,
For each plant we score its broad because the conventional way
spectrum score; the ability of one they contaminate it with aluminum
plant to cure more than one disease and too much boiling. They
in humans, in livestock and its contaminate it with commercial
toxicity, availability, sustainability oil, which you don’t know how
etc. At the end there is a score, it’s made with bleaching agents.
one number that reflects the utility People using funny spices. Then
value of that plant globally. 20,000 lifestyles: people need to interact,
medicinal plants will be many people need to balance physical
volumes. and sedentary lives, otherwise you
Eventually, with this scoring now rot then diabetes and hypertension
with the monograph I will come out will kill you. Spirituality: health
with plants that can be established means being at par with the
in commercial plantations. Like, expectation of the Creator within
tea was wild, coffee was wild, and the ecosystem He put you in.