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Many Nigerians have jocularly said that the Popular Madagascan organic herbal remedy known as 'COVID Organics' may soon feature on the menu list in restaurants in coming days. This speaks more of its acceptability, particularly by a wide range of people who have clamoured for a home-grown cure for the COVID-19 infection.

It is coming at a time when the country's tally of confirmed cases has exceeded 6,000. The surge does not appear to be stopping anytime soon. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and experts have also opined that it has come to stay.

However, there have been questions on what Africans and the rest of the world are doing to get a vaccine, a drug to properly treat the novel virus. This birthed solidarity trials to hasten the process.

Nothing had sufficed until Madagascar unveiled a herbal remedy recently.

The cure

Africa is home for Nigerians, hence the decision to embrace the Malagasy COVID Organics (CVO), an organic herbal beverage believed to be capable of preventing or curing the virus. The testimony of Madagascar, whether genuine or counterfeit, also contributed to the fuss that came with the launch of the anti-killer-disease cure.

The country, as at the time of the launch, had not recorded any single death with an impressive recovery rate. The president of Madagascar had urged citizens to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus by drinking the organic herbal beverage.

"Let's drink this herbal tea to protect ourselves, to protect our family and our neighbours [...] and there will be no more deaths," Andry Rajoelina said in a speech last Sunday, according to a local daily, L'express de Madagascar.

The East African country also sent out this herbal cure to Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries and orders have since been dispatched to several other countries, including Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Tanzania.

Although President Muhammadu Buhari had promised to validate the potency of the herbal cure, some have expressed high hopes that it is the cure the whole world is waiting for.

Nonetheless, when Matshidiso Moeti at the WHO Regional Office for Africa was asked during a press conference whether the WHO had any data or evidence of its efficacy, she said: “No, we do not.”

The composition

The unproven COVID-Organics drink developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research is reportedly made from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) and herbs.

Artemisia annua extracts, according to experts, show very little toxicity and artemisinin-based drugs are widely used to treat malaria even in newborns. Nevertheless, scientists around the world are putting the herbal remedy to test.

Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Potsdam, are partnering with a U.S. company, ArtemiLife, to test an extract from the plant Artemisia annua to determine its effectiveness in speeding up recovery from the virus.

“We are working with two independent laboratories to ensure the highest possible quality and exclude any bias in the results,” Peter Seeberger, lead researcher, told VOA in an email response.

Also, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a herbal drink promoted by the president of Madagascar as a cure for COVID-19 should be tested to see if it is effective.

Fears

Since the active agent in the herbal cure is the cornerstone of so-called artemisinin-based combination therapies, Kevin Marsh of the University of Oxford, who spent decades studying malaria in Kenya, feared that it might cause the malaria parasite to develop resistance.

According to him, the use of artemisinin alone can result in a reduction in the effectiveness of artemisinin for malaria treatment. "We totally depend on artemisinin for malaria in every country of the world, so we are very worried about resistance,” Marsh says—especially in Africa, where 90% of the world’s malaria deaths occur."

To prevent resistance taking hold, most artemisinin-based malaria treatments include a second antimalarial drug, so that if the parasite develops resistance to artemisinin, the other drug will still kill it.

The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly discourages countries from using artemisinin to treat malaria on its own as a “monotherapy,” because it could hasten the development of drug resistance.

SOURCE : https://politicsnigeria.com/analysis-is-the-madagascar-herbal-drink-a-cure-for-malaria-or-coronavirus/

Even though its active ingredient Artemisinin is a known reputable cure for Malaria it is a also a potent and capable anti virus and anticoagulant which is why it is able to stop COVID just like Chloroquine but unlike Chloroquine it is a low toxicity drug with little or no known side effect...Dont allow the Globalist Satanists mislead you that there is no cure to COVID because of their sinister plots ...Infact I just finished having a cup of Artmesia Annual tea before seeing this

Who else feels there is too much pressure to demarket this herbal drink from Madagascar?

Abeg no get side effect so no harm in trying and hyper trying.

No overdose.

As long as it's effective, make we try am. But make our elite dem drink am first

The herbal mixture will soon be linked to cure wvery form of sickness you can think of.

Wait till we get the Naija version of it.

It is well.

Let appreciate our own for once.

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Well, even if they are sharing it for free, I ain't interested..

Summary please

So far the Madagascan authorities have been using it to treat it's patient and have recorded zero deaths not until few days back. It has been proven (tho not scientifically) to work on COVID-19 so you don't expect the WHO to easily certify it pharmaceutically okay. There's a lot going on in WHO today that even Trump lost the little regards he had for them. Whether it is for Malaria or COVID-19 doesn't matter, we just need it readily available in it's pure form without adulteration.

good...so much pressure to spoil d name of this madagascar herbal drink ever since it was sent to Nigeria...if the medicine isnt working they should jus tell us instead of all this propaganda...i jus get the feeling that some African countries would bow to the pressure of W.H.O and won't even bother to try or test this medical aid...my country said they are still waiting for science and mayb the W.H.O is the headquarters of the xo called science....lets wait and see shaa...
in other news...who else noticed that the sticks in a match box av reduced from the normal 200 sticks to jus 120 sticks...abi the missing 80sticks de on quarantine or it was reduced to practice minimal social distancing??

K

as for me, I don't believe in this Madagascar herbal cure. If it is as effective as these people claim they shouldn't have any coronavirus patient left and their recovered patient should be more... only 119 out of 326 confirmed cases

Lol... I don't even knw what to say about this virus anymore, but i don't know why there are too many fuss surrounding the Madagascar herbal drink, even BBC castigated it, there is something WHO ain't telling us...

I have laptop for sale HP ,

Nigerian government and excuses!!!
See stupid question!! It is not for malaria, it is for Warapa (Epilepsy) ... Nonsense and ingredients

If you say it is a cure. Subject it to scientific tests.

jumper524:
Who else feels there is too much pressure to demarket this herbal drink from Madagascar?

Abeg no get side effect so no harm in trying and hyper trying.

No overdose.

I don't think so. Science is not about sentimentality but empirical evidence. You can't push a cure to the world based on "no harm in trying". This only make mockery of Africa and fighting for it based on emotional grounds is even more reason why the world won't take seriously in future. This could be the cure but let's advocate for due process.

Dont criticise African products just because you all have colonial mentality.

Where that Madagascar agbo make I drink?

They should give it a clinical trial to ascertain its efficacy first before demonizing the herbal mixture just because its coming from a small nation called Madagascar

jumper524:
Who else feels there is too much pressure to demarket this herbal drink from Madagascar?

Abeg no get side effect so no harm in trying and hyper trying.

No overdose.

Ditto.

As long as chloroquine works, any malaria medicine or concoction will work for covid19.

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Stop sharing this pics because you should know that only the patient that are in critical condition in places where the infected are many were put in the ward while they request those with less severe symptoms to stay in isolation at home for treatment. I pray our situations won't get to the extent that there won't be spaces to admit people.
I heard lagos is looking for more spaces to put patients now, they may start telling those with lesser symptoms to stay at home for treatments.....

Malaria drugs are been use to manage corona virus

Whatever it is. Let it be tried first before complaining. Most African herbs are very good for anything like malaria or fever which corona is part of the family.

Give them d money dem requested make we try the cure first

Since we were told that malaria treatments are effective for Corona virus, therefore the Madagascar's herb is effective for Corona virus.