HEALTH FOCUS

AN END TO THE NIGHTMARE HIV/AIDS

Dr Fru Richard

GAEINAMED-CAM


The issue of HIV/AIDS is very intricate, considering the fact that HIV/AIDS has been ravaging many people especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, in spite of the fact that since 1982 as Statistician proclaimed four million condoms have been shipped to Sub-Saharan Africa as preventive measures.

The Holy Bible does recommend healing with the use of herbs as seen in Ezekiel 47:12-14 and Revelation 22:1-2. With reference to Jeremiah 8: 21-22 we can question why HIV/AIDS remains a nightmare?

The mystery as to the remedy of HIV/AIDS has caused many Medical Practitioners to be alert due to the menace HIV/AIDS is creating. A renowned Tradi-Medical Practitioner in Cameroon, Dr. Richard Fru, Founder and CEO of Garden of Eden Institute of Natural Medicine CAMEROON, has come up with herbal medications for HIV/AIDS. GAEINAMED-CAM in November 2005 and December 2007 won an award of Excellence as the best and most popular traditional clinic for research in Cameroon.

Dr. Fru holds that, the condition of HIV/AIDS is as a result of the destruction of one’s immune system. Through profound research, he discovered that apart from HIV, other conditions like stress, poor nutritional intake, too much consumption of chemical drugs and protracted illnesses like typhoid, can affect the immune system thereby leading to AIDS. As a matter of fact, there are situations where some people have been diagnosed of AIDS in conventional hospitals meanwhile they never had HIV.

According to Dr. Fru, God has endowed a lot of mystical powers in plants, which transcends scientific explanations; as a result, there is no ailment without cure or remedy. God has bestowed wisdom and knowledge to some people to be able to understand the different plants and their uses.

The herbal medications of Dr Fru are meant to boost the immune system, thereby rendering the virus inactive. Moreover, it should be noted that one’s immune system is made strong and effective from the consumption of natural foods.

The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Communication, instead of investigating the authenticity of these claims have placed an embargo that, any Traditional Healer who publicly declares can treat HIV/AIDS would be imprisoned for five years and a fine of ten million franc CFA awaits any defaulter.

To ascertain the efficacy, safety and quality of Natural Therapy, the READER’S DIGEST titled FOODS THAT HARM, FOODS THAT HEAL, an A-Z GUIDE TO SAFE AND HEALTHY LIVING, states on page 186 with the caption – HERBS FOR HEALTH that, “herbs in the diet and herbal remedies are making a comeback as people rediscover the value of natural ingredients and natural cures and question the side effects of pharmaceutical drug …Nevertheless, there is much wisdom in the general approach of herbal medicine and there are usually with fewer or no side effects…. Certain forms of Eczema appear to respond to herbal remedies where orthodox medicine has little to offer.
The medicinal value of herbs, known to earlier civilization through a combination of keen observation, trial and error, is being rediscovered and confirmed by modern scientific tests. But while research continues to investigate the uses of new plants, many Doctors and Scientists still do not acknowledge the healing powers of herbs, preferring instead to rely on “tried and tested” pharmaceutical drugs.

A press release dated February 21, 2003 and titled ‘FirstAfrican Traditional Medicine Day to be commemorated on 31 August 2003’ states that, the decision to observe an African Traditional Medicine Day follows an adoption in 2000 of a resolution on promoting the role of traditional medicine in health systems. A strategy for the African Region, by the region’s Health Ministers, requesting the institution of the day on the WHO calendar for observance in member states.
The image and profile of traditional medicine received a boost in Africa in 2001, that research into traditional medicine should be made a priority. They followed up this declaration with another in Lusaka in July 2001, designating the period 2001 – 2010 as the decade of African Traditional Medicine.

Traditional Medicine is one of the priority program of AFRO which in 2000 developed the above mentioned regional strategy document. The development and adoption of the African Regional Strategy was complemented by the launching in 2002 of the first Global Strategy on Traditional Medicine by WHO.

Dr Fru is a young advocate of African Traditional Medicine / Natural Therapies. He has attended conferences in and out of Cameroon, especially on HIV/AIDS. The most recent being the Global Summit on HIV/AIDS - Traditional Medicine and Indigenous knowledge held in Accra, Ghana on March 14-18, 2006. His discourse was titled “The Importance of Traditional Medicine in Our Society and Its Role in the Fight against HIV/AIDS”.

He participates in several radio and TV talks shows and publishes articles in local Newspapers. Most important, he has consulted and treated many HIV/AIDS patients.

By Enie Ndoh Cecile