Health
We’ve Made Several Breakthroughs In Alternative Medicine, Prof Amodu Reveals
One of Nigeria’s foremost phytomedicine researchers, Professor Benjamin Amodu says several breakthroughs have been recorded in the field of alternative medicine.
He made this bold claim while speaking with AljazirahNigeria Newspapers, in his laboratory in Abuja.
He asserted that with his about four decades of conducting several researches in this field, plus his many publications, he is aware of these breakthroughs.
“Having spent 38 years in this field of phytomedice research, and with about 39 publications in very high impact medical journals, we have recorded several breakthroughs in the field of alternative medicine,” he asserted.
The professor of phytomedicine from the Triune Biblical University, USA, then revealed areas where he has made innovations through his Halamin Herbals.
“For instance, we now resolve glaucoma and cataract without surgery. In the area of enlarged heart which takes a complicated open heart surgery to resolve clinically, we have resolved several cases without even seeing the patients, because when family members contact us and present the cases to us, we immediately give them our medication we have had cases where patients were to be sent to India for open heart surgery, but they commenced our medication while still awaiting their due dates, and the situation got resolved without any surgery because our drugs go into the arteries and arterioles to clean them up so that the heart is repaired and is returned to its normal size.
“Another one is diabetic ulcers on the leg which are resolved by amputation, but which we treat and the wounds heal, thereby eliminating the need for the patients to lose their limbs. We did one at the Garki General Hospital in Abuja here, where within six days, mam’s legs that was to be amputated got healed and the doctor were shocked. We talk about liver cancer with the Alpha-fetoprotein, AFP, going high. In the United Kingdom, UK, they say once it goes high, it never goes down, but when we give patients our medication, we see it being resolved. In the UK and other places, it could not normalise because they have cut part of the liver, thus making it impossible to be resolved.
“Then in issues of kidney where doctors where doctors say the kidney is totally bad, so patients should immediately begin dialysis and go for urgent transplant, we have been able to revive the kidneys, plus significant breakthroughs in various cancers. “For instance, a prostate cancer patient with 2,000 PSA has been resolved and brought down to 1.2 which means it has been cured. We have also been able to resolve breast cancers without surgery.”
Speaking further, he said: “Another area we have made significant breakthrough is hormonal imbalance which many health practitioners do not understand. You will find some women that their menses disappear, or they can even bleed for 30 days. We resolve all those things without the need for surgery; or is it goiter where you have a woman with an enlarged goiter who was booked for surgery, but which case we resolved without the need for her to go under the knife.
“Then issues of the lumbar, the spinal cord, L1, L2 which doctors insist patients must go through surgery, but we resolve such cases of spondylosis where the vertebrae and discs in the lower back, otherwise known as the lumbar spine, gradually deteriorate due to age and wear and tear, but which we resolve without any form of surgery and patients get completely healed with the pain,
stiffness and other symptoms vanishing for good.”
“So you can now see that we have been able to resolve several issues that modern medicine says it’s not possible, but which we have made possible without any complicated procedures,” he concluded.
Amodu has over the years continued to reveal the advantages of alternative medicine.
Health
Stakeholders Applaud A360 Impact On Adolescent Health
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s health and development sector say the institutionalisation and scale-up of the Adolescent 360 (A360) Amplify project have greatly improved adolescent sexual and reproductive health outcomes in participating states.
They made this known at a dissemination meeting on the project on Thursday in Abuja.
It was implemented by the Society for Family Health (SFH) and partners, and later adopted into government systems following documented successes.
Launched in 2020, the A360 project was designed to provide adolescent girls with access to sexual and reproductive health information, youth-friendly services and economic empowerment opportunities.
The programme was implemented in Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna and Nasarawa States using a human-centred design approach that engaged governments, communities and young people to improve uptake of family planning and maternal health services.
Dr Aisha Sadiq, Permanent Secretary, Kaduna State Ministry of Health, said institutionalising A360 had delivered measurable improvements in adolescent health indicators and community wellbeing.
She said Kaduna currently provides A360 youth-friendly services in 623 Primary Health Care (PHC) centres.
The Matasan Mata Arewa (MMA) initiative, she added, had reached 75 communities and empowered more than 15,000 girls with entrepreneurship skills and seed capital.
According to her, more than 60,000 girls have accessed contraceptives through the programme, with a reduction in discontinuation rates as more young women sustain use and transition to maternal and child health services.
“These changes have shown a marked reduction in maternal mortality among those communities. It has also reduced negative neonatal outcomes,” she said.
Sadiq recounted an elderly woman’s remarks from a programme community, calling them a strong reflection of the project’s success.
“These girls have spent their whole lives believing they will remain tolerable liabilities to the husbands they marry, but now they are realising the value of becoming appreciated assets,” she quoted.
Sadiq added that Kaduna’s 16 per cent health budget allocation and the integration of A360 activities into the state’s 2025 Annual Operational Plan demonstrated sustained political commitment.
Also speaking, Dr Omokhudu Idogho, Managing Director, SFH, said the four implementing states had successfully embedded A360 approaches into government systems, community structures and routine health practices.
He was represented by Dr Kenechukwu Erichalo, Deputy Managing Director, Project Delivery.
Idogho said the project had reached more than one million adolescent girls with family planning services and engaged over 500,000 others with comprehensive sexuality education messaging.
“We recorded more than 50,000 antenatal care visits, ensuring that girls received skilled care that saved lives, and supported over half a million girls to learn income-generating skills,” he said.
He said A360 pioneered the MMA and Niger Girls models, demonstrating that culturally sensitive, human-centred programmes can succeed even in conservative communities.
“Our most significant achievement is institutionalisation. Today, all 1,750 A360-supported facilities are fully government-led,” he added.
Mrs Roselyn Odeh, A360 Project Lead, said the initiative was developed in response to poor adolescent health indices in the country.
She said the programme ensured respectful, youth-friendly services at PHCs and supported school reintegration and entrepreneurship for girls.
She said the decision to scale the programme in northern states was based on data.
“When you look at maternal mortality among young people, you know the section of the country it is coming from. Data drove our decisions in alignment with government priorities,” she said.
Odeh identified challenges including weak PHC infrastructure, funding gaps, commodity shortages and the need to engage husbands in conservative communities.
“But creatively, we worked with governments to mobilise domestic funding through health revolving funds and the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund,” she said.
Mr Sagir Musa, Commissioner for Youth, Jigawa State, assured of continued commitment from implementing states to sustain and expand the project’s gains.
“This project may be nearing closure, but for us, it has just begun. We have gone beyond its life cycle to embed its approaches in the things we do,” he said.
The dissemination meeting brought together policymakers, community leaders, development partners and beneficiaries to review lessons learned and outline future priorities for scaling adolescent health interventions nationwide.
(NAN)
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