Submitted by anon

Rok/Juris

Someone just sent me this in an email.

I would like to share this interesting discovery from a classmate’s son who has just recovered from dengue fever. Apparently, his son was in the critical stage at the ICU when his blood platelet count drops to 15 after 15 liters of blood transfusion.

His father was so worried that he seeks another friend’s recommendation and his son was saved. He confessed to me that he gave his son raw juice of the papaya leaves. From a platelet count of 45 after 20 liters of blood transfusion, and after drinking the raw papaya leaf juice, his platelet count jumps instantly to 135. Even the doctors and nurses were surprised. After the second day he was discharged. So he asked me to pass this good news around.

Accordingly it is raw papaya leaves, 2pcs just cleaned and pound and squeeze with filter cloth. You will only get one tablespoon per leaf. So two tablespoon per serving once a day. Do not boil or cook or rinse with hot water, it will loose its strength. Only the leafy part and no stem or sap. It is very bitter and you have to swallow it like “Won Low Kat”. But it works.

*Papaya Juice – Cure for Dengue*

You may have heard this elsewhere but if not I am glad to inform you that papaya juice is a natural cure for dengue fever. As dengue fever is rampant now, I think it’s good to share this with all.

A friend of mine had dengue last year. It was a very serious situation for her as her platelet count had dropped to 28,000 after 3 days in hospital and water has started to fill up her lung. She had difficulty in breathing. She was only 32-year old. Doctor says there’s no cure for dengue. We just have to wait for her body immune system to build up resistance against dengue and fight its own battle. She already had 2 blood transfusion and all of us were praying very hard as her platelet continued to drop since the first day she was admitted.

Fortunately her mother-in-law heard that papaya juice would help to reduce the fever and got some papaya leaves, pounded them and squeeze the juice out for her.. The next day, her platelet count started to increase, her fever subsided. We continued to feed her with papaya juice and she recovered after 3 days!!!

Amazing but it’s true. It’s believed one’s body would be overheated when one is down with dengue and that also caused the patient to have fever, papaya juice has cooling effect. Thus, it helps to reduce the level of heat in one’s body, thus the fever will go away. I found that it’s also good when one is having sore throat or suffering from heat.

Please spread the news about this as lately there are many dengue cases. It’s great if such natural cure could help to ease the sufferings of dengue patients.

Furthermore it’s so easily available.
Blend them and squeeze the juice! It’s simple and miraculously effective!!

Wish I knew about this papaya about five years ago when dengue almost took my life. Talk ’bout pain. Lord a mercy. I have never experienced anything like it before. I could not even talk or eat. I was so weak. Is papaya the same as paw-paw or related?
Garlic is good for ‘gas’ too, I hear.

Posted on Barbados Free Press story about Black Woman Who Reads is Iain Deane…

“Jason
January 27, 2009 at 2:54 am
Wuhloss! Barbados Underground new story talkin about herbal medicines an such! This lying lawyer and BWWR story is posted on Keltruth for four days exposing BWWR as Iain Deane and they still talkin about “herbal medicine”

ha ha ha ha!!!!”

BU, I’m absolutely, livid this morning!!

I think you should do something on this diabetic who could n’t get an ambulance until the newspaper, reporters turned-up!! Absolutely, scandalous!! Is this the best that Bim is capable of!!

Does n’t matter that your rivals are already covering the story!!

funny thing, all day, every day the ambulances are heard all over the island responding to emergencies. I have not heard many if any complaints about poor service. The few incedences I have had with them, has been VERY professional. There must be a situation were they can’t respond immediately, though we don’t like it, we got to realise that this is possible. After all there are not a thousand ambulances and crew there just waiting for a call to respond, they might have been out on other calls already. What should they have done, stop that case and come to the other? What were we doing before the ambulance service started. As a young man, I have had to rush many a sick person from my village to the doctor or sometimes to hospital. i believe we have become too selfish to put someone in our vehicle now, in case the inside gets dirty

Technician
I agree, on has got to be very careful on who you put in your vehicle and the medical problem. Plus, I also agree that there are some broken ambulances, some just awaiting parts. However, there are many cases where a relative or friend can put someone in there vehicle and take them to the QEH but would wait for an hour for an ambulance, then complain.Plus sometimes while the ambulance is responding to a minor case, there is a very serious case that has to wait until one is available. I also know of more than one case of persons calling an ambulance just to get into B’town. As soon as the ambulance reach QEH the “patient” gets out and walk through the yard and into B’town. Some of us are our biggest victims/ enemies.

Scout you are clearly a stong DLP supporter.

Do you recall that last year that GP outlined how the publich health services in Barbados need to be run on a regional basis, with ambulances working within zones, moving from nearest polyclinic to site of pick up and back to nearest polyclinic?

Do you recall that last year that GP suggested that there should be at leasdt three such ambulances per zone. Some of these could be bought by donations from businesses in the respective zones.

Do you have to be a card holding member of the DLP or a DLP politician to make viable suggestions in Barbados that are acceptable to a DLP Government?

anon
Yes, there should be ambulances at strategic locations throughout the island. This nothing to do with the availability of an ambulance at all times. There would be times when someone just has to wait, that is unfortunate and that does not make me a supporter of any political party to say that. Funny thing, I have been accused of being a member of both parties, what is true though is that while I have a bias towards a particular party, I’m very open in my suggestions as I speak with a clear consience.

Scout
You may not know this, but a lot of so called research is bull shit. At mosst Universities teachers have to do “research” and publish papers to keep thier jobs………and so……….they do……and the results are often BARE BULL.

I just love to hear Americans and Brits bashing our health care system……wow !!

Tech, obviously, I can’t speak for the Americans but, I bash it because I care about it, which seems to be more than you do, symptoms of the Barbadian-syndrome pal + genepool!!

Bonny peepa
Is that all you could find to comment on? Wha bout wha GP had to say bout deploying the ambulances and improving the health care system? You aint nuttin to say bout dat!

another view,
You did drinkin? You can’ tell me wah ta comment ’bout. Doan be a idiot sa early in de new year.
All dese GTbanna ’bout hay got my head hot and you comin’ ta perplex me now too. Look, doan vex ma spirit do.

Paw-paw and papaya are exactly the same. six ‘o one and half dozen of the other

Anybody can confirm or refute that Golden Seal is the same as Tumeric?

@ROK…….Golden Seal and Tumeric are not the same even though the former is aka indian spice.

Dear BFP Friend:

They ain’t got no boats going to Australia?

My mother taught me to use warmed cassava leaves to break a fever.

In the 1968? ‘flu epidemic my little sister had a raging fever and was delirious and as we say “talking idle” . It was late at night and we lived in the country, we had no telephone either.
My mother used the cassava leaf treatment and in the morning the child was as good as new. No delirum, no fever, no “talking idle”. Forty years later she is still as good as new.

DO NOT eat cassava leaves, they are poisonous.

But warm some leaves lightly on the stoveor in a mocro-wave and place on the head of the person with the fever, tie the head lightly with a scarf. You can also put some of the warmed leaves in the pillow case and under the sheets. Ensure of course that there is no fire on the leaves.

Scout, did n’t mean to embarass you my bro, it’s just that I don’t see complacency as being in the interests of anybody, in Bim!!

Scout I know my cassava. Both kinds can be eaten. However the leaves of both kinds are poisonous.

In order to eat “poison” cassava the juice must be washed and squeezed out, the cassava dried, and then it can be eaten.

The sweet, non-poisonous cassava can be grated, prepared with sugar and spices and made into pone without first drying the cassava or removing the juice.

J former cassava farmer (among other callings))

GP:

Thanks for that reinforcement of the qualities of our coconut water.

(or is this spam, and you really run a stall on the highway) LOL.

Once any fruit or vegatable is harvested exposure to sunlight is bad.

Best thing, watch the vendor cut the nut and drink it right away.

Just this weekend my little Johnnie was comenting thatthe bananas looked and tasted so fresh. I pointed out that the bananas grew only feet away from the kitchen table, and were harvested when yellow on the bunch.