The Nigerian natural health industry is gradually coming of age has capsules made of bitter-leaf from the country are now sold as food supplements in the UK. A source from London, who spoke with Nigeria Natural Health Online www.kimekwu.blogspot.com, reviewed that the bitter-leaf supplements are now in high demand in that country because of its preventive and curative qualities.
As far back as 2013, Nigerian researchers had gone a step further to a universally accepted cure for hepatitis B and C, cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis with the development of bitter leaf-based dietary supplements that have shown great promise in clinical studies. The researchers from Halamin Herbal centre, in Abuja and Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH)Jos found that poly herbal preparations with bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) as the active ingredient strengthen the immune system through many cytokines and chemokines regulations.
The poly herbal preparations include: SAAAB and HAABS dietary supplement for hepatitis B and C; SAABFAT 7 for cancer; TABSAABS for tuberculosis; and DAABS-2 for type two diabetes.
The researchers led by a leading researcher in plant extracts and natural medicine and pharmacist, Dr. Ben Amodu, have shown that there is a cure for the chronic form of hepatitis B and C.
Amodu is also a member of the committee inaugurated recently by the Director General of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii, to champion the development of herbal medicine through scientific validation of all the cure claims.
* Bitter-leaf speeds up metabolism and therefore is great for weight loss.
* Bitter leaf juice relieves fever and feverish conditions.
* It also helps to reduce high sugar level in the blood, and great for diabetic patients.
* Bitter leaf is said to soothe and also cure pile.
* Taking a cup of bitter leaf juice a day, is a great way to detoxify the body of harmful toxins.
* Bitter leaf nourishes the skin.
* Bitter leaf also cures mild stomach ailments
* Bitter leaf is said to increase breast milk production in nursing mothers.