How Bitter Leaf, Kola, Moringa Other Herbs Magically Cures HIV - New Research By Medical Profs. Reveals, Validates

Guardian Newspaper - Nigerian researchers have found that water-based extract of bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) could be used as adjuvant in the management of people living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

A recent study on the immunological effect of Vernonia amygdalina leaf extract and immunace® (nutritional supplement) on HIV-infected patients taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) found that it could serve as a nutritional supplement in an HIV-infected or immuno-compromised condition such as cancer or diabetes patients.

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The study published in Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine concluded: “The aqueous extract of Vernonia amygdalina (bitter leaf) and immunace or both have the immunological effect on HIV-infected patients. Therefore, we suggest that the V. amygdalina extract or immunace or both could be used as adjuvant in the management of HIV/AIDS clients.”

The study was conducted by researchers from the Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State; Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; and Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

The result of the study showed that the mean absolute CD4 count (a marker of the immune system) was increased in the client who took the extract or supplement. And the clients who took both the extract and supplement had a greater increase in the CD4 count. The increased CD4 was significant as compared with the control group. The skin rashes were also improved in the entire groups.

Also, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have endorsed some herbs and spices that have shown promise in treating the opportunistic infections associated with the viral infections without side effects.

They have verified the efficacy of garlic (Allium sativum), ginger (Zingiber officinarum), cloves (Syzigium aromaticum), thyme, cayenne, basil, Aloe vera, Neem tree (Dogonyaro/Azadiratcha indica), lemon (Citrus limon), lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) in the treatment of opportunistic infections associated with the HIV/AIDS.

A Neem-based product has received United States (U.S.) patent, “US 20070275085 A1”, as compositions and methods for the cure of HIV/AIDS.

Also, Nigerian researchers led by a professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Development Group (BDG), and former Chairman of the Independent Election Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, have validated local foods such as bitter kola, coconut oil, bitter leaf, Moringa oleifera, Sour sop, the mushroom Garnoderma lucidum, among others as immune boosters and for the treatment of HIV.

Also, another group of researchers have in clinical trials demonstrated how poly herbal preparations made predominantly with bitter leaf provide cure for chronic form of hepatitis B and C co-infection, cancer, type 2 diabetes, tuberculosis and HIV. The researchers from Halamin Herbal centre, 10 George Innih Crescent, Apo District, Abuja and Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Jos found that poly herbal preparations with bitter leaf as the active ingredient strengthen the immune system through many cytokines and chemokines regulations.

Other constituents of poly herbal preparations include: Sesamum indicatum (sesame), bitter leaf, Aloe barbadensis (popularly known as aloe vera), Saccharum officinarum (sugar cane), Allium sativum (garlic) and Amaranthus caudatus (green amaranth, inine in Ibo, tete abalaye in Yoruba).

The poly herbal preparations include: SAAAB and HAABS dietary supplement for hepatitis B and C, and HIV; SAABFAT 7 for cancer and HIV; TABSAABS for tuberculosis and HIV; and DAABS-2 for type two diabetes.

The researchers led by a leading researcher in plant extracts and natural medicine and pharmacist, Dr. Ben Amodu, have shown that there is a cure for the chronic form of hepatitis B and C. Amodu and his team of researchers have in recent clinical trials shown that the poly herbal preparations could be used to treat prostrate cancer and ‘bad’ cholesterol.

Result of laboratory tests by Image Scan Diagnostic Centre Maitama District, Abuja, showed that a patient with abnormal Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA per milliliter (ng/mL) of blood of 6.9; was reduced to reduced to PSA of 0.41ng/ml of two months of regular use of the poly herbal preparation as well as reduced the total cholesterol level from 250 mg/dl to 156 mg/dl.

A 2016 paper by João S. Teodoro et al, on “Mitochondria as a Target for Safety and Toxicity Evaluation of Nutraceuticals”, noted that the multiple pharmacological activities of kolaviron from Garcinia kola (bitter kola) could be due to its ability to prevent and/or repair mitochondria damage.

Another study published on journal Phytomedicine has validated the treatment of oral thrush in HIV/AIDS patients with lemon juice (Citrus limon) and lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) and gentian violet.

The researchers noted: “Though the patient population was small, the use of lemon juice and lemon grass for the treatment of oral candidiasis in an HIV population was validated by the randomised controlled trial.”

Indeed, researchers have validated anti-HIV properties of Garnoderma lucidum. The study published in the journal Phytochemistry is titled “Anti-HIV-1 and Anti-HIV-1-Protease Substances from Ganoderma lucidum.” The Japanese researchers wrote: “Ganoderiol F and ganodermanontriol were found to be active as anti-HIV-1 agents with an inhibitory concentration of 7.8 mg ml1 for both, and ganoderic acid B, ganoderiol B, ganoderic acid C1, 3b-5a-dihydroxy-6b-methoxy- ergosta-7,22-diene, ganoderic acid a, ganoderic acid H and ganoderiol A were moderately active inhibitors against HIV-1 PR with a 50 per cent inhibitory concentration.” Also, scientists have in another study published in African Journal of Biotechnology found that extracts of Moringa oleifera showed inhibitory activity against early steps in the infectivity of HIV-1 lentiviral particles in a viral vector-based screening.

The researchers noted: “Moringa oleifera (Moringaceae) is one of the many medicinal plants employed by herbalist to treat or manage people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in African Traditional Medicine (ATM) and there are many claims to the fact that it improves quality of life and reverses the course of the HIV/AIDS disease progression.

“In this study, M. oleifera leaf extracts showed potent and selective inhibition of early steps in HIV-1 infectivity and could serve as source of anti retroviral lead molecules.

The outcome of this investigation could partly explain the benefits and improvement in quality of life claimed by PLWHA in the use of this medicinal plant as supplement.”

Iwu told journalists in Lagos last week that his team at BDG has formulated these local food items into scientifically validated medicines, dietary supplements. BDG is comprised of Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP), Bioresources Institute of Nigeria (BION), Intercedd Health Products (IHP), Intercedd Laboratories (IL), BioTrade Global Agency and Nature’s Emporium.

Iwu said these foods or rather plant extracts have been formulated foods that can be used as medicines or rather dietary supplements for persons living with HIV/AIDS include among others: Moringa Tea, Moringa Leaf Tea, Moringa Whole Seed, which have been shown by research to cure over 300 diseases; Vernonia Ocimum Tea from bitter leaf and scent leaf (Ocimum gratissimum) also used for the control of blood sugar and weight management; Garcinia-IHP from bitter kola (Garcinia kola) also used as antimicrobial and detoxifier; IHP Virgin Coconut Oil from coconut as stress buster and immune booster; Erovit-IHP, which combines the anti-ageing properties of the mushroom, Cordyceps, the high-potency antioxidant effects of Punica granatum fruits and the life enhancing Korean ginseng; Immunovit-IHP from Reishi mushroom, Punica granatum and Korean ginseng to boost immunity against diseases; and Ganoderma Coffee and Ganoderma Green Tea.

Has Halamin Herbal Centre found a cure for HIV/AIDS in its bitter leaf-based poly herbal preparations? Amodu said: “As it is, it will not be proper to project the message that we have cure for HIV/AIDS. We don’t want to send any info to the outside world for anybody to think that we want to jump the gun. What we have can be subjected to further study, and we are uniting with NAFDAC to do that. So at this point, I don’t want to lay claim that I have cure for that. But, what the whole world recognized today is functional cure, and we can beat our chest that we have that cure. Functional cure as described by New York Times. What is functional cure? It is a state whereby an HIV/AIDS client has an increase immune system, decrease or no opportunistic infections and has loss no man-hour (can do his work without help from another). This is exactly that our herbal supplements do; our supplements are at par with the conventional Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART)…”

Prof. Maurice Iwu And 40 Thieves, By Goke Butika

Impunity seems to have assumed a cultural dimension in Nigeria, because the big thieves are either honoured for plundering the nation's resources, or they are spanked with kid gloves. I am mouth-agaped that the infamous Professor Maurice Iwu of worst election history was still the consultant for election compromise strategies hired by Mrs. Diezani Allison Madueke, the Petroleum Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Iwu was reported to have worked with Diezani's son and the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Okwonkwo, the compromised banker was given 115 million US dollars to be converted to 23 billion naira to be shared among the Resident Electoral Commission (RECs) of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) unknown to the then integrity personified Attahiru Jega and election monitors. The plot was that if the election was compromised, the election monitors would write favourable reports to back it up for the sake of credibility.

As it stands, the wind has blown, and the rumps of the foul has been unveiled. Fidelity bank has owned up to its conspiracy, some INEC officials have started singing at the net of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), and some of them have started returning monies to the government, but the Chief Consultant Maurice Iwu is on the run, he is too timid to face the law.

No wonder Diezani invited my senior, Dele Momodu, a celebrated columnist cum politician to her London home for "make-belief" cancer narrative to draw sympathy for the female rogue, and to bamboozle the countrymen into believing her innocence. It was Momodu's syndicated narrative on Saraki that made  yours sincerely to yank the man off the radar of integrity.

Everyone has a price. Iwu has been declared wanted now. And I am confident he would be implored by friends to get in touch with Momodu for another pathetic narrative that would couch his story in persecution, because Buhari lost election under his leadership of INEC. Nevertheless, something is selling good now with the new sheriff in town.

Iwu is a masquerade handler who is in for a great of trouble this time. This masquerade handler is perpetually in trouble, for he set out two thousand naira worth of masquerade, and lost his cap worth of three thousand naira; while searching for it, the tax collectors arrested him and charged him for tax default to be settled for eight thousand naira. From this scenario Yoruba comes up with a proverb-"odaran moran, alaagba Ile Gbonmi, o se egun nain, o so fila egbedogbon nu, oniwe Ile tun mu".

The monumental corruption buried alive in the grave of poverty and wants in Nigeria has refused to give up ghost. "miraculously", the cases of heartbreaking stealing we thought would not see the light of the day are now staring us in our battered faces, and we are helpless that people do not know whether to fight or to resign to fate.

This is an interesting time in the life of Nigeria, and honestly, I don't envy the jobs of the President or governors, because the sprawling anger against the ruling class is not definable. Those who want President Muhammadu Buhari to run faster, not minding the "broken bottle" of treasury, "broken glasses" of national institutions, "nails" of beneficiaries of the old older, the scourge of rotten judiciary, the unscrupulousness of the "legislators", the unchanging attitude of those who crave for change and other vices, are angry with the President, because they have faith in him, and they want him to pace faster. Meanwhile, those who are affected by the anti-corruption battle are equally angry with the President at the way and manner their "scam shops" are being forced to close daily. And this is the dialectics of unity of opposites.

An interesting dimension is the way names of the children of "vultures" in government featured in their parents' sleaze. These corrupt few sent their children abroad to School on the government bill, bought eye-popping houses for them from government bill, they even allowed them access our collective purse to steal and monitor other thieves, because they wanted to be everywhere at the same time stealing. Whereas, they were asking the children of the poor to come and write job exam at stadia, where death was offered in return. That was the story of the yesterday's men.

Maybe, we do not know that N23 billion dollars could be used to pay Osun workers full salaries of ten months; perhaps, we do not know that the same amount could fix not less than 300 kilometres of roads in the nation; maybe we do not know that the same amount could give us some power turbines for generation of 5000 megawatts; maybe we do not know that 23 hospitals could be fixed with state of art equipment that would save thousand of endangered lives; maybe we do not know that the same amount could produce 500 employers of labour who could create additional thousands of jobs for the youth; maybe we do not know that not less that 50 universities could be fixed with the money. But, it is too late to cry now that the head is off, because our electoral officers and election monitors had already gone shopping with it.

Look, some people are still asking about the change promised by President Muhammadu Buhari, because they have not been given direct food, but how come people are not seeing the change in the way things are going bad for those who pushed the country to the edge? Maurice Iwu and Diezani must be brought to face justice. Of course, corrupt lawyers and SANs must have been dusting their filthy gowns and wigs to defend them on the mantra of rule of law, and their sponsored protesters must be preparing for dress rehearsal. All the same, we must salute the President who has created enabling environment for the anti-graft agencies to unveil this structure of corruption.

Butika is an intercontinental journalist.

Diezani's N23.29bn Bribery Scandal: INEC's Ex-Chairman Iwu Fingered, Allegedly On The Run

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu has been allegedly involved in the controversial N23.26 billion bribe for 2015 election result, the Ripples Nigeria says.

According to Ripples Nigeria,  the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have launched a manhunt for the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu over complicity in the alleged N23.29b poll bribery scandal, Ripples Nigeria gathered.

A source at the EFCC, who confirmed this Thursday night, said Iwu reportedly facilitated the sharing of the slush funds, in which he also benefitted.

Ripples Nigeria gathered that the EFCC has been on his trail in the last two weeks but was said to be evading arrest.

A highly placed source said: “We have watch-listed the former INEC chief in the last two weeks but he has been evading arrest.

“Our operatives are still looking for him. So, we have launched a manhunt and put other security agencies on the alert.

“He is wanted in connection with the N23.29 poll bribery scam perpetrated by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.”