29/04/2020
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AFRICAN GRASS THAT ‘CURES’ COVID-19 ATTRACTS AMERICAN FUNDING, GERMAN AND DANISH RESEARCHERS
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The drink, said to be made from a common African grass (known in English as Artemisia, Yoruba - Ewe Egbin, Zulu - Umhlonyane, Ibibio - Mkpatat, Hausa - Tazargade) is being distributed for free in some schools that are reopening and in poor neighborhoods.
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COVID-19 herbal remedy made in Madagascar, an African island on the Indian ocean, is fast receiving global attention as the United States government is paying “additional $2.5 million” to expand its fight against the pandemic that has infected more than one million Americans to date.
According to USA ambassador in Madagascar, Michael Pelletier “the contribution of $2,500,000 is additional funding granted to Madagascar as part of the fight against the coronavirus”.
“The exclusive allocation of this sum is for the popularization of the national territory of the solutions found” Michael Pelletier said.
As secondary schools reopened yesterday after being closed for a month due to the coronavirus, students in Madagascar were given a small bottle of the herbal extract to drink as a protection against COVID-19. Many grimacing at its bitter taste, the students swallowed the drink and entered schools to resume classes, where they were now seated one to a desk instead of two, for safer distance.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina promoted the drink, Covid Organics, on national television saying it will “change the course of history.”
Madagascar with a population of 26 million, currently has 128 recorded cases of Covid-19 and no deaths. The herbal drink has not yet received the approval of World Health Organisation, WHO, but Madagascar president is enthusiastically promoting it. “What we want to do today is to popularize this drink to protect our population,” said Rajoelina on television as he gulped a bottle of medicine on the spot, with his ministers following suit.
The drink, said to be made from a common African grass (known in English as Artemisia, Yoruba - Ewe Egbin, Zulu - Umhlonyane, Ibibio - Mkpatat, Hausa - Tazargade) is being distributed for free in some schools that are reopening and in poor neighborhoods. Elsewhere it is being sold for about N1,000 for a liter bottle.
The drink was developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research, a private organization that for more than 30 years has researched the uses of Madagascar’s traditional medicines. Some African countries, led by Senegal, are already in contact with Madagascar for shipment. Hitherto, artemisia ( or Mkpatat in Ibibio) was used in some malaria drug successfully in Madagascar.
Already, three teams of Western researchers including Germans, Danish and Americans, have combined their efforts to carry out analysis on the preventive and curative scope of the use of artemisia or Mkpatat for the treatment of coronavirus.
Only time will tell whether this African remedy will be the ultimate solution to this ravaging global pandemic.
By ANIETIE USEN (with Agency Reports)