I think I would like to look at this issue of Bitter Kola vs Ebola from a different perspective. Granted, Conventional Medicine is about the most reliable method of healing in todays world, as its methods undergo clinical trials to ensure its agents and procedures are safe in the human system, and also reproducible in different environments. That is why the treatment for malaria, pneumonia, asthma etc is virtually the same in China as in Ghana, Nigeria, United Kingdom or even Australia, with very few modifications. These are cases where the disease entity has not only be established and relatively conquered, but improvements are still ongoing to combat them better. But Western Medicine as we all like to call it, is not the be all and end all. While I may have issues with traditional methodologies of treatment that only survive through oral narrations from generation to generation, and thereby lacking the reproducibility and reliability that clinical trials can confer, we should know that our fore-fathers were not totally daft, as even while some of their agents actually killed the people they intended to cure, there was some efficacy in some of their potions. The fact that literature is still ongoing with respect to bitter kola and ebola suggest there might be more to the duo than meets the eye. I write this for two reasons: 1. There is no cure for Ebola as we speak. Neither is there a vaccine for it. 90% of its victims are more than likely to die from its effects. The only treatment is more symptomatic than anything. Its more like making someone whom you are sure will die only more comfortable while facing death. In the face of death, any option can be deemed worth it, especially when there are very few. 2. Bitter Kola is a natural agent. It is not a concentrate where you are likely to be overdosed. Its like telling me someone took an over-dose of oranges or apples. The worst that can happen is, the bitter kola will not work. You have lost NOTHING by trying. If and when the right level of attention is given to bitter kola (and the veracity of claims ascertained), and if the pharmaceutical companies start making concentrated agents from the extracts, then we can start talking about safety issues. But for now, I guess it will be worth a try should push come to shove. Who knows, it could be what the 10% that survive the disease share in common.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:40:18 +0000
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