A private medical officer in Kawambwa in Luapula Province has encouraged people to start using pure honey if they are to be free from some diseases.
Dr. Rodgers Kaluba of Kenya’s Medicinal Plants University said in Kawambwa today that many people prefer to use
sugar but that honey is the best.
Dr. Kaluba, who is in Kawambwa to attend to patients with different ailments, was giving a health talk to some people that approached him for treatment.
He said pure honey can cure over 100 diseases when mixed with cinnamon hence the need for people to use in preference for sugar.
“Bees collect nectar from different species of trees that make honey to be a strong herbal medicine and people should use it even for curing BP,” Dr. Kaluba emphasised.
Dr. Kaluba also implored people living with HIV/AIDS to avoid eating meat, chicken and other foods with fat.
He revealed that the virus multiplies faster with fat, hence the need for the HIV patients to avoid eating such foods
However, Dr. Kaluba has advised that HIV patients should always eat vegetables such as emaranthus known as ‘ibondwe’ that are fertiliser free.
He said fruit, such as mangoes and guavas are also important for HIV patients.
Other foodstuffs that he recommended are cereals that include soya beans, sorghum, pumpkin seeds and millet.
Meanwhile, Dr Kaluba has explained that HIV is categorised in seven areas.
Dr Kaluba says HIV 1 and 2 are found in human beings while HIV 3 is found in cattle, and HIV 4 in blue monkeys with dogs, pigs, lions and leopards hosting HIV 5.
He said HIV 6 is found in rats and rabbits while HVI 7 is found in elephants.
According to Dr Kaluba, HIV 2 can be cured within three months while HIV 1 is incurable.
But Dr. Kaluba noted that a person with HIV 1, when given his herbal medicine, life can be prolonged just as ARVs do.
Dr. Kaluba in his ten day treatment of patients in Kawambwa has seen a five year old boy who has never walked since he was born start walking.
The boy of Lusambo village in Chief Munkanta’s area in Kawambwa started walking after Dr. Kaluba massaged him for three days using herbal medicine.
