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“Medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua are being considered as possible treatments against COVID-19 and their efficacy and side effects must be examined,” the organization said in a statement signed this Sunday at its headquarters in the capital of the Republic of the Congo. .
The World Health Organization (WHO) did not reject the use of artemisia, a medicinal plant that Madagascar is using and exporting as a prevention and cure treatment for COVID-19, but today called for clinical trials to prove its efficacy earlier. .
“Medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua are being considered as possible treatments against COVID-19 and their efficacy and side effects must be examined,” the organization said in a statement signed this Sunday at its African headquarters in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, and forwarded to the media today.
The UN body specifies, after the controversy caused by the massive use that the African island is making of this natural product, which is also used without scientific basis as a treatment for malaria, which supports traditional medicine as long as it has a scientific basis. .
“Africans deserve the use of medicines tested to the same standards as people in the rest of the world,” says the WHO in its statement, specifying that “even if the therapies derive from traditional and natural practices, establish their Efficacy and safety through rigorous clinical trials is crucial. “
WHO is working with research centers to select natural medicinal products that can be investigated as a natural treatment for COVID-19.
On April 22, Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina announced the creation of Covid-Organics, an artemisia-based herbal drink – developed by the Malagasy Institute for Applied Research – to prevent and cure COVID-19.
According to Rajoelina, preliminary tests showed that the drink was effective in just seven days, but twenty-four hours later the Madagascar National Academy of Medicine (Anamem) stated that it was early to know its effect.
“It is a medicine for which scientific evidence has not yet been established and which runs the risk of damaging the health of the population, and in particular that of children,” Anamem reported, rejecting Rajoelina’s recommendation of give it to the children.
Despite this, the Malagasy president has sent this “herbal tea” as a gift to several African countries such as Guinea Bissau, who received the alleged antidote this Saturday on an Airbus from Antananarivo with the commitment, according to government sources, to distribute his cargo between the other 14 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, has also assured that he has sent a plane to Madagascar to get doses of this supposed natural “antidote”.
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