@ansall



Your querry should be answered by a herbalist
Thus you should ask:Any herbalists in the house?
Is herbal medicine the same as holistic medicine?
What of Homeopathy?

@annsal

I have been reading a lot lately on ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE and I am getting convinced that these things work (i don't mean our street wagangas or money minded herbalists.

There are real professionals in this field and they do really have alternative cures for diseases but you will never hear about them because:-

1) Orthodox (contemporary) medicine will never allow that to happen for it is cheap and will kill the pharmaceutical industry
2) The research institutions will never allow that to happen for they will loose funding (when there is a naturally occurring cure for a disease you don't continue funding a research project to look for the cure, do you)
3) The media will never report there existence to you because they will loose income from advertisements by orthodox above
4) If some media house stupidly reports a "revolutionary" natural cure for a disease, the orthodoxers will finance a research whose result will be to "scientifically" rubbish the natural cure.
5) Patent and trade mark laws do not allow you to patent a naturally occurring item in whatever form. So the orthodoxers are always in a fix. when they discover a natural cure they hide the information, buy the silence of the scientist, they go to the laboratory to manufacture altered variants of the natural substance which they patent and sell to us as cure.

If you dont believe the above I will pose a question to you:

Do you think that GOD has ACTUALLY not created a cure for these diseases which devour mankind and left that to the knowledge of man?

@ kingfisher thanks for the insight.the reason why am asking is coz my mum has been ailing for over 10 years- high blood pressure and diabetes. Two months ago we took her to an herbalist, who started her on a detox to flush away the toxins etc .while she was taking the detox she was OK, so when he started her on the high blood pressure drugs,things went very wrong , after one week the blood pressure and the sugar level went very high ,we had to take back to hosi where she was hospitalised for 3 days.My query is why do they lie? and if it really works why did it backfire on my mum ama like kemac put it ,it was a case of underdosage/ overdosage.How can someone tell a real herbalist from a fake one?

@annsal and who was the herbalist?

@annsal - A good herbalist is like a good mechanic. You have to rely on word of mouth from people you know! The problem is, unlike in the case of mechanics not many Kenyans use the services of herbalist [consistently] and therefore it's hard to come by testimonials for the same herbalist from two or more of your acquaintances.

To answer your other question, a majority of these so called herbalists are quacks. Anyone can claim to be a herbalist! The industry is not regulated so don't be surprised to see an advert like the one below:

Njung'e, Wendz and Leona herbal clinic
Tunatibu ugonjwa wa sukari, chumvi, wasisi, kukosa kazi, mapenzi, kutorokwa na bibi, bwana kurudi nyumbani mchana (He he he), fitina kazini etc. etc.

Never go to a herbal doctor just because you saw his advert/program on K.B.C. or heard him talk in some radio show. Do you personally know someone with your ailment he has successfully treated? If not washana naye!

I stick to convectional medicine but I believe herbal medicine actually works. The fear of being treated of one of the many quacks is what keeps me away!