Gambian President's cure for AIDS: green paste & bananas (Islamic medicine)
The Daily Mail ^ | 2/21/07
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Jammeh has so far refused to disclose details of his herbal concoction, saying only that the treatment uses seven plants - "three of which are not from Gambia." The treatment begins with the president applying the green paste, stored inside a deli-style plastic container. Next is a gray-colored solution, which he splashes on the patient's skin. It is stored inside an old Evian bottle, as is the yellowish, tea-like brew which patients are asked to drink. The therapy is administered numerous times over the course of several weeks.
After treating the original nine, Jammeh emerged from his black-tinted treatment chamber, carrying a tall wooden staff, a string of Islamic prayer beads and a leather-bound Quran.
In front of him, 30 new patients waited on lawn chairs, drawn like the first batch from the roughly 20,000 people currently living with HIV in Gambia.
He told them that during treatment, they must cease drinking alcohol, tea and coffee. They also cannot eat kola nuts or have sex.
Jammeh held up a leather-bound copy of the Quran, pointing it at each of the patients in turn: "In the name of Allah, in three to 30 days you will all be cured," he said.
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