Soliloquys

Anyone who lives within Southern Africa has probably heard of the African Wormwood plant – Umhlonyane. 
Touted by Madagascar as the cure for COVID-19, it is  a plant that has been used by herbalists to treat respiratory issues for decades. 

For those of us who are constantly exposed to COVID-19, we have a vested interest in finding out whether or not the plant is beneficial at all.
It seems as though it does relieve symptoms, but as to being a cure….that remains to be seen as no studies have been published in that regard.

Unfortunately Madagascar has not been spared from the pandemic raging across the world. Despite using Artemisia afra as a tonic/vaccine, cases of COVID-19 have steadily increased.
 
here at home, in Eswatini, the number of cases has risen and we will soon reach that forecast 3000 cases before month end – if we keep on testing.
 
A word of caution has to be attached to this post: liberal use of umhlonyane seems to lead to renal injury.
One can search Twitter to find stories of people drinking too much of it and having kidney problems thereafter. The lowest recommended dose I found was a teaspoon of the dried herb in tea, weekly.
To my dismay I was reading tweets of people drinking up to two cups of the tea per day! Please remember that NO drug or herb should be consumed in excess.
​#umhlonyane #Artemis #COVID19 #Eswatini