A Nigerian researcher and medical herbalist, Prof Nelson Fasina, has developed some local remedies against coronavirus.
He announced the remedies, “Agbo decoction remedy” in a statement titled “Local remedies for COVID-19: 15 rules of the game.”
The remedies are backed up with dietary and physical hygiene rules which must be observed while taking any of the three recommended remedies.
The three-pronged agbo decoction remedies are as follows:
i. Lemon grass with lemon and pineapple peel should be cooked with water in pot and drunk hot at least three times daily;
ii. Grind or powder garlic with ginger and turmeric (Ata Ile) separately. Measure half level spoon each in hot pap and drink as hot; and
iii. Add menthol or Eru Arike to boiling hot water and cover your head with towel with the heat. Inhale the heat into your mouth and let it go into your chest. Open your eyes on the steam. Do this every day. It kills corona virus.
The dietary rules which must also be observed simultaneously are:
- Avoid sugar, fat and cold water or drinks;
- Eat balanced diet, eat healthy
- Drink Alkaline water: Slice lemon, cucumber, apple, pineapple in water. Let it sublimate for hours. Drink as needed. This increases your general immune system against the Disease.
The physical hygiene rules are:
- Wash you hands with soap under running clean water and use alcohol based hand sanitiser as appropriate;
- Use face masks, hand gloves when outside;
- Before you re- enter your house, pull off your clothes outside and soak them in soapy water, then go for very hot water bath with lather soap from head to toe;
- Avoid physical contacts like handshake, keep social distance, avoid crowded places, and keep off people who sneeze or cough, or have been positive to Covid-19;
- Avoid Barber’s shop, clippers, shaving kits, cleaning towel, etc
- If you’re healthy and you’re not a health worker and you have no Covid-19 symptoms, pleases, avoid going to hospitals;
- Buy 1000 mg Vitamin C Immune Booster and use 1 cap daily if you’re 16 years and above;
- Do some physical exercises so you can sweat and exercise your body and lungs to boost your immunity;
- Do not spread false rumour;
- IF you notice any of Covid-19 symptoms, pleases, call your country’s hotline for Covid-19 emergency care.
