"Let your Food be your medicine and your medicine be your Food" - Hippocrates (Father of modern Medicine)
Medicinal: over 8,000 herbal plants could potentially be used for food, medicine and cosmetic
Nigeria Medicinal Plants Development Company has developed food supplements using medicinal plants that could help millions of Nigerians treat malaria and anaemia.
The products include two tea
brands, each made from leaves of antimalarial plant artemisa and moringa
(drumstick).
A third tea Artemisa Plus is a
blend of both plants. The fourth product Morigvite is a powdered food
supplement from moringa, said the company’s managing director Zainab Sharif.
More “herbal products will come
out from this range of medicinal plants,” she predicted.
Moringa alone, commonly known
as zogale, is
thought to have at least 13 by-products from powder and tea to oils.
“Adding value”
Medicinal: over 8,000 herbal plants could potentially be used for food, medicine and cosmetic
Nigeria Medicinal Plants Development Company has developed food supplements using medicinal plants that could help millions of Nigerians treat malaria and anaemia.
The products include two tea brands, each made from leaves of antimalarial plant artemisa and moringa (drumstick).
A third tea Artemisa Plus is a blend of both plants. The fourth product Morigvite is a powdered food supplement from moringa, said the company’s managing director Zainab Sharif.
More “herbal products will come out from this range of medicinal plants,” she predicted.
Moringa alone, commonly known as zogale, is thought to have at least 13 by-products from powder and tea to oils.
“Adding value”
Since it was introduced from Nigeria, artemisa plant has adapted and produced in Nigeria, better in the North with more sunshine.
Trials are in a second phase, but cultivating the plant has been limited to less than 50 hectares of land in the absence of technology to extract artemisinin from the plant—the active ingredient needed for antimalarial by pharmaceutical companies.
Nigeria is looking to acquire a $5 million, 10-tonne-capacity patented extraction technology from Vietnam after similar negotiations with China—where the plant is indigenous—floundered.
The company had hoped for a partnership in exchange for the patent, but China “indicated they were not interested in coming to partner with us,” said Sharif, noting that Nigeria’s large market for antimalarials may have been a reason.
The technology will ensure artemisa is processed into artemisin—raw material for antimalarial used by over 400 pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria.
The products include two tea brands, each made from leaves of antimalarial plant artemisa and moringa (drumstick).
A third tea Artemisa Plus is a blend of both plants. The fourth product Morigvite is a powdered food supplement from moringa, said the company’s managing director Zainab Sharif.
More “herbal products will come out from this range of medicinal plants,” she predicted.
Moringa alone, commonly known as zogale, is thought to have at least 13 by-products from powder and tea to oils.
“Adding value”
Since it was introduced from Nigeria, artemisa plant has adapted and produced in Nigeria, better in the North with more sunshine.
Trials are in a second phase, but cultivating the plant has been limited to less than 50 hectares of land in the absence of technology to extract artemisinin from the plant—the active ingredient needed for antimalarial by pharmaceutical companies.
Nigeria is looking to acquire a $5 million, 10-tonne-capacity patented extraction technology from Vietnam after similar negotiations with China—where the plant is indigenous—floundered.
The company had hoped for a partnership in exchange for the patent, but China “indicated they were not interested in coming to partner with us,” said Sharif, noting that Nigeria’s large market for antimalarials may have been a reason.
The technology will ensure artemisa is processed into artemisin—raw material for antimalarial used by over 400 pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria.
“What we needed to do is to look at the work already done,” Sharif remarked.
The products to be launched next week are meant to allow Nigerians access to the benefits of artemisa, used for treating malaria.
The company also assured that cultivating the plants would create jobs for growers of artemisa and moringa, following the examples of Vietnam, which requires 2,000 farmers to produce every 200 tonne of artemisa plant
Kano:
Contact. Alhaji Balarabe Umar
Phone:08034200413, 08055738320, 08097669666,
Lagos:
Contact: Mr. Falade Samuel
Phone: 08066673488, 08027280624, 08091311285
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Phone: 08034641004
Abuja:
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Kaduna:
Contact: Mr. Henry
Phone: 07034565532
Akure:
Contact: Mr. Samuel
Phone: 08033737820
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