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Umoja hosts call for return to traditional medicine

- suggest modern medicine is not working for the people of the Virgin Islands
February 22nd, 2013 | Tags:
Host of the Umoja radio show, Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka (right) and co-host Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru both agreed that the Virgin Islands needs to return to traditional medicine. Photo:VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Hosts of the Umoja radio show have called for a return to the culture of traditional medicine in the Virgin Islands while asserting that modern medicine is essentially failing the people of the Territory.

The hosts made these claims last evening, February 21, 2013 on the Umoja show, which was aired on a local radio station.

Co-Host of the Umoja Show, Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru, expressed that persons have been steadily moving away from Virgin Islands culture, a culture that previously worked well for the people of the islands.

“We look at it as primitive, it’s not modern… we see modern culture as American culture, if we want to be modern we have to be American,” Sowande stated.

He felt that even persons from America and European countries that practice this kind of ‘modern’ culture, a capitalist type of individualistic culture, also developed. “Even they are saying that it is not working,” he added, “and they are going for what they are calling sustainable development, they’re trying to be greener, they’re trying to use alternative medicine.”

According to Sowande, most of the people from these places are leaving hospitals behind and going into ‘Chinese medicine shops’. These persons, he suggested, are now practicing the use of herbs and natural acupuncture, reflexology, homeopathy and other similar things.

He felt that even with the development of National Health Insurance in the Territory, “we are not even considering those things, even places that we are copying, they’re moving towards these things that they call sustainable development.”

The co-host re-iterated, “this is how we were already living, this is what we are moving away from.” Sowande described the practice of moving away from these things as “nothing short of madness”.

He pointed out that there were particularly high obesity rates in both the United States and the Virgin Islands.

Meanwhile, host of the programme, Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka stated, “half of the population [of the Virgin Islands] has a chronic disease.”

“When you look down the line, you have to come to the conclusion my people, that it’s not working,” Sowande stated.

15 Responses to “Umoja hosts call for return to traditional medicine”

  • x factor (22/02/2013, 09:50) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    BUT COMWELL GOVERNMENT IS IN SO WHY HE AINT GO TALK TO DEM
  • vex (22/02/2013, 10:10) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I AM BEGGING YOU GOD COME NOW FOR WE IN THE BVI BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
  • Natty (22/02/2013, 10:48) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Well, folks I agree with Edju En Ka
    • van & out (22/02/2013, 11:12) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Ti is going to get worse! We Reach, We finally Reach, NEW HEALTH PLAN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OUT!!
  • Hmmmm (22/02/2013, 11:08) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    The government wont't do nothing cause doctors in the house and it is a money making thing. Pharmaceutical companies are just killing the unlearned masses. They know these DRUGS which they class as medication is doing nothing for the people but the HERB and the greens that will help the people they refuse to promote. Every HERB (plant) is for the HEALING of some type of dis-ease.
    • Biggs (22/02/2013, 12:27) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      What do you want the Government to do? When you have the flu do you call Mark, Doc, Picko and them to ask their opinion or you do what you think is best to remedy the situation? We are adults and can make our own decisions. Instead of buying cough medicine made of artificial poison, drink some bush tea, honey and lime for common flu/colds like they did in the old days. Instead of using hydroxy cut and other bullshit for weightloss and healthy lifestyles, drink natural herb teas that promote digestion, cleansing and regular bowel movement. The Government doesn't have to do that, you can do it yourself!! The problem is that we think we are American and rather the 'easy' way of things. Pop a pill, microwave a packet, that's how we live now.l Our parents and grand parents lived healthy lives because of these healing herbs. What's wrong with us?
  • lawdy (22/02/2013, 11:23) Like (1) Dislike (5) Reply
    Since when edgar-un-clued and so-whatee be qualified to talk about medicine?
    • tretretrete (22/02/2013, 13:12) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      So long as you are free from the matrix and the programming of your mind etc. and you are aware of who you really are, then any one is qualified to speak about any subject matter. You people are so brainwashed that it is not funny any more!!
  • Hmmmm (22/02/2013, 13:15) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    To Biggs: I don't know if you was responding in regard to my comment about the government won't do anything .... but this was in response to X FACTOR comment when they stated that: BUT COMWELL GOVERNMENT IS IN SO WHY HE AINT GO TALK TO DEM. As you can see from my comment, I am strictly for NATURE.
  • . (22/02/2013, 13:48) Like (0) Dislike (6) Reply
    Who in their right mindgonna take on these two cuntry boyz????
  • Free Soul (22/02/2013, 15:08) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    We in the VI used natural remedies and have strayed from such. If people realize the history of the FDA and the battle between holistic medicine and traditional medicine they would realize what is really wrong with 'the system'. Pharmaceutical firms cannot patent anything that is natural hence making up some similar concoction that is not natural and getting a patent for it. Psychotropic drugs alone is a $300 billion a year industry. Pharma companies are now doing direct consumer marketing. Patient comes in for a visit and is now telling the doctor they want the purple pill they saw on TV because they have those symptoms. Furthermore, why is every drug that is patented has a warning clause regarding side effects. It's a crazy world/matrix we live in; everything for the dollar so much so we are losing our souls!!!
  • John clown (22/02/2013, 17:49) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    More froth for this windbag
  • ACCESS (22/02/2013, 19:50) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I think this is a wonderful idea Mr. Smith I see no reason why people should not use traditional medicine, and why the BVIHSA with nothing to hide should not oppose it?????. To those who do oppose it I ask, "what do you have to hide"! and why?

  • Sick (23/02/2013, 21:18) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    All who complaining about this topic but yet contributing nothing meanful to it should hush


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