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It sounds unbelievable, but the way the world works, it's only in the 5% area where people tend to just say, it's too good to be true and why hasn't anyone made it known yet.
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A huge THANK YOU for this news and this article to the Anamed network and especially to Dr. pharm. Hans Martin Hirt, anamedhmh@yahoo.de , www.anamed.net and www.anamed-edition.com
- Congratulations on the Nobel Prize: Our “Natural Medicine in the Tropics Campaign”, “anamed” for short, has helped ensure that thousands of people in the tropics did not get malaria or were cured of malaria. Our African employee in this field of research received the WHO's “Price of Excellence” and, at the suggestion of the regional council, our German employee even received the Federal Cross of Merit for this global work.
Scientists from all over the world continue to confirm or challenge our work today. All this work has now reached a new peak, because Artemisia annua did not “grow on our crap”: We owe her rediscovery to Ms. Tu Youyou, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine today. Congratulations to her...and all anamed employees in malaria-prone countries for your so important and much-derided work!!!
2. Backstory: China and the WHO
At the height of the Vietnam War, the conflicting parties realized that malaria was killing many more soldiers than the other side's bullets. In 1967, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong desperately turned to their (actually disregarded) professors to “immediately find a fast-acting drug without resistance and side effects against malaria.”
In 1968, Prof Youyou discovered the plant Artemisia annua, and by chewing these leaves the soldiers protected themselves from malaria and the Vietnam War was decided in favor of Asia. In the pharmacopoeia of China in the new edition from 1985, the herb Artemisia annua is now recommended in a dose of 5-9 grams as a tea against fever and malaria. However, the WHO…..understandably……is turning a blind eye to this therapy.
In the meantime, China became capitalist, and since you can't get rich with tea, in 1972 one (!) of the 10 malaria-active ingredients was isolated from this tea (artemisinin) and patented as a malaria cure.
It took 32 (!!!) years for the WHO to urgently recommend artemisinin therapy for malaria treatment in 2004; But as early as 2006, resistance to this monotherapy appeared, the WHO withdrew its recommendation and from now on only recommends the two-part combination of artemisinin plus an antibiotic.
The fact that she initially only recommends the product from the Swiss company (Novartis, for Coartem) worldwide provokes angry protests and demonstrations worldwide, for example from “Medicines Without Borders”. The renewed development of resistance even to this two-way combination as “humanity’s last weapon” is now causing global concern.
3. About the history: anamed and Baden-Württemberg
The action group “anamed” was founded by my African colleagues and me on January 25.1.1986, 1991 in the Zairean village of Matamba-Solo and was made known all over the world after I returned to Germany as a development worker in XNUMX. The great interest in “helping people to help themselves”, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, has enabled us to collaborate worldwide with countless aid organizations and universities.
It was only in 1996 that we became acquainted with the new malaria drug “Artesunate” (water-soluble artemisinin) in Uganda. My immediate aim was to get access to this plant in order to be able to promote a (freely available) tea in exchange for tablets (only available to the upper class, at that time the treatment cost 20 dollars with a worker's daily earnings of around 1 USD!). I asked for scientific support from WHO:
However, it was said there that the use of medicinal plants, the medicinal content of which varies greatly from plant to plant, was completely irresponsible against deadly tropical diseases.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be true that the wild form of Artemisia annua had very different compositions. I was therefore very grateful to have access to a special breed of Artemisia annua (not genetically modified), from which plants with consistently high artemisinin content could be grown.
We now began distributing this seed worldwide and asked all contact groups to share their results with us. The plant proved to be effective in malaria prophylaxis AND therapy, a milestone in tropical history, which seemed absolutely unbelievable to some classical physicians!
In order to make the discussions more objective, the University of Tübingen invited people to a press conference on July 22.7.99, 2; There were 3 television channels, 11 radio stations and XNUMX media representatives present.
Because of the heated discussion about the potential of A-3, the then Health Minister of Ba-Wü, Dr. Friedhelm Repnik, myself and 2 other anamed employees as speakers at a conference on the topic: “Medicinal plants-medicine opportunity for health care in developing countries”. It took place on February 11.2.2000, 100 at the DIFÄM in Tübingen and was attended by over XNUMX people, primarily from the medical field.
4. Reasons for our work:
Let's remember: A reduction in the incidence of malaria in Africa by just 20% means an economic gain that corresponds to the entire development aid for Africa (20 billion USD per year)!
Or: If we can prove that Artemisia tea brings 80% healing, then this almost free medicine would mean a profit of 4 times the global development aid for Africa!
ARTE television says enthusiastically about this plant “Malaria, a victory in sight” and the Süddeutsche Zeitung calls it “the plant that could save Africa.”
We say quite simply: Yes, victory is in sight - not in the sense of eradicating the enemy, but in the sense of a controllable situation:
Humanity will not eradicate malaria and malaria should no longer threaten to eradicate humanity!
Our vision is that malaria is treatable and remains treatable and that this therapy remains accessible to even the poorest for thousands of years!
We have issued precise guidelines for this: use of artemisia leaves as a powder for ingestion, as a tea for drinking, and as an aqueous extract as an enema for unconsciousness. And where these herbal medications alone are really inadequate, we provide instructions on how these medications can be combined with old, patent-free and therefore cheap so-called “chemical” antimalarials (amodiaquine, etc.): E.g. for AIDS sufferers or children under 5 years of age .
This means that an African state can effectively build a front against the extremely threatening increase in malaria without any increase in costs and without begging Mr. Bill Gates. The University of Tübingen (Appendix 06) has shown that effective blood levels can be achieved: volunteers drank tea prepared from 9 g of dried Artemisia annua leaves. Blood levels reached 240 nanograms of artemisinin per ml; this is 26 times more than is needed to prevent Plasmodium falciparum from reproducing in vitro. It is therefore understandable why our plant A-3 is suitable for both malaria treatment and prophylaxis; and why, thanks to the combination of 10 active ingredients in this plant, there have been no reports of resistance developing to date.
5. Results and consequences of our work:
The Ba-Wü State Foundation supported our project on February 7.2.2006, XNUMX with the name: “Medicinal plants against malaria, in Adi/Congo and Musoma/Tanzania”.
Prof. Fleischer, head of tropical medicine at Missio, had himself photographed with our medicinal plant to celebrate his retirement: (Main post 30.9.04/10.11.2010/2004: “In the countryside: Prof Klaus Fleischer with Artemisia annua, the medicinal plant against malaria.” Our anamed employee Ms Hannelore Klabes received the Federal Cross of Merit for her work in Burundi on November XNUMX, XNUMX! State Secretary for Education and Cultural Affairs Georg Wacker explained this at the award ceremony with: "As a multiplier, Klabes has been involved in the introduction and distribution of the medicinal plant against malaria Artemisia annua since XNUMX."
Thanks to our partners, we have now equipped 1800 medicinal plant gardens and fields with A-3 plants. In the feedback we received reports that this plant is effective against malaria and also works against a variety of other diseases. This is partly understandable, as the industry itself has patented artemisinin against several other diseases (AIDS, cancer, Lyme disease, etc.). A large field of research lies ahead of us all, there is enough work for thousands of anamed employees!!!
Your Hans-Martin Hirt wishes you God's blessing
Dr. pharm. Hans-Martin Hirt, Schafweide 77, 71364 Winnenden,
Tel 07195-910225, anamedhmh@yahoo.de,
Managing director of the association anamed international eV www.anamed.net
and head of anamed edition, www.anamed-edition.com
