Some readers want me to write about the clamour for restructuring the country or the letter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re – election next year. But without being immodest, while others can write about these and other political, economic, social or religious issues, no one can pen articles on herbal medicine and be believed as I have achieved in the last two years and five months (September 2015 to date).
Consequently, I consider it better for me to finish my series on herbal medicine through which many a reader had their prostate cancer or enlargement cured by Mrs. Oluwasola Folarin last year. I published the names and telephone numbers of some of them in November when I reported their testimonies for anyone interested to cross – check, as some readers did and found my story to be true.
I also did the same in 2015 with some of the scores of readers who were healed of stomach ulcer, arthritis, pile, asthma, typhoid or erectile dysfunction by Dr. Odeyemi. And the diabetics whose blood sugar level he was able to effectively control by drastically reducing the number of times they urinated in a day and the discomfort they experienced. And whom he gave the hope of living to an old age of eighty years and beyond, if they do not have or later developed any other killer ailment.
So far, only a woman in Ikare, Ondo State and a man in Minna, Niger State who took Pa Giwa’s medicine for diabetes had reported back to me. They said their blood sugar level is still high and that they have contacted the old man who said he would send them another bottle of medicine. But the man in Minna said since he began taking Pa Giwa’s medicine the number of times he used to wake up in the night to urinate had reduced from three to four times to once. But his blood sugar level might still be high because unlike before he said he has started eating rice, yam and eba. I told him to stop eating these carbohydrate foods or reduce the quantity he takes and make sure he has his dinner about 6pm and not after 7pm and to exercise or do brisk walking for 30 minutes to one hour every day.
A year or so before I did the series on Dr. Odeyemi’s herbal medicine (September 2015 – February 2016), the Daily Sun had published an article on his alternative medicine practice and drugs. But less than twenty people reached out to him, and only about half of them patronized him. A year after my series, he placed a half – page advert on Page 34 of the Saturday Sun of March 18, 2017 with the title of Herbal remedies for wellness, our specialty. But only about fifteen people contacted him.
But to God be the glory that six hundred and seven readers asked me for Dr. Odeyemi’s phone number when I did my series on his herbal medicine. I made the list of these people and their telephone numbers available to him and the Managing Director/Editor – in – Chief of Sun Publishing Limited, Mr. Eric Osagie and the Editor of the Daily Sun, Mr. Onuoha Ukeh. So, the figure of 607 is not a cooked up one.
In fact, last year about ten people I gave Dr. Odeyemi’s phone number in 2015 or 16 and who could not remember it, got in touch with me as they needed him for the treatment of either the stomach ulcer or diabetes of their relatives or friends. Those who did so in the last two – and – a – half months were the owners of telephone numbers 080 – 3301 – 2720, 080 – 2941 – 7574 and 080 – 3764 – 5171.
A total of seven hundred and seventy – one readers contacted me for the phone number of Mrs. Folarin when I did the series on her herbal treatment of prostate cancer and enlargement from July 26 – November 22, last year. While two hundred and eighty – five readers asked me for Pa Giwa’s number in the first three articles published about him on January 3, 10 and 17. This column, like the others in the Daily Sun, did not come out last Wednesday. Although I did not send the figures of those who contacted me for the numbers of Pa Giwa and Mrs. Folarin to Messrs Osagie and Ukeh, I have them in the exercise books where I recorded them.
Some reasons are responsible for why numerous people reached out to me compared to those who responded to the publications by other people on Dr. Odeyemi before or after my series on his alternative medicine practice. The first is that as far back as 2012, three years before my articles on his herbal drugs, I had let readers know that I was diagnosed as having diabetes in 1992. And that I was cured in 2002 with the herbal medicine prepared for me by Alhaji Mustapha, a nonagenarian alternative doctor in Ado – Ekiti, who died in 2005.
I say my diabetes has been cured because since 2002 I had not taken daonil or glucophage or any other medicine for the disease, be it orthodox or herbal. And my fasting blood sugar level reading had remained between 76 and 95mg/dl. The normal level for non – diabetics is 76 – 110mg/dl for blood sugar test carried out during fasting period and 76 – 150mg/dl taken two hours after eating, called random blood sugar test. In other words, my fasting blood sugar level since 2002 has been between 34 and 15mg/dl below the 110mg/dl upper limit for non – diabetic people.
To be continued next week
Colonel Clark, here is my CV (11)
Apart from my dad being the Chairman of the Akure Local Government in the late 1950s through 1961 as I disclosed a fortnight ago, the first job I did in my life was serving as a clerk at the Lagos City Council (LCC) after my secondary school education. I worked there from February – September 1965 before I went to the University of Ibadan for a three – year degree course in History.
So, by the time I became the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Akure Local Government in August 1995, thirty years after my experience working at the grass roots level, I already knew that for me to succeed I had to reach out to the traditional rulers, community and political leaders as well as the masses. To ask them what they wanted me to do and their suggestions on accomplishing the task, and for me to give them confidence that I will run the affairs of the council transparently and shun corruption.
To be continued next week