Friday, May 24, 2013

Welcome to TANZANIAN PHARMACOPOEIA


Owing to the current  increase in disease incidences in our society and to the skyrocketing prices of imported medicines and the unwelcome fact that some of the expensive medicines do not do what they are supposed to do (especially to the extent we want them to), we have decided to set out and establish an official recognition of our very own traditional medicament which can never fail anyone as they are a product of nature. The prices should especially be a matter of particular user friendliness as they are negotiable to the point of comedy. As for the mode of preparation or sourcing of ingredients this is where we hope to conquer the pharmaceutical giants the world over, we being tropically located are surrounded by very productive ecosystems, terrestrial and aquatic, this being the case, except for those in cities and towns, wherever you turn your eyes you see green and that’s the color on which your heart should rest.
Most wild animals survive by eating plants and they never fall sick, at least not as much as domestic ones, the reason being they mix so many varieties of plant materials they are in perpetual prophylaxis and this ladies and gentlemen is the premise on which we decide to base our very new and laudable “PHARMACOPOEIA TANZANIAE” in a vigorous act of shaking ourselves free from commercial colonialism.
The first medicine we choose to acknowledge as a proven potent universal panacea is called ‘ULATULE’ in coastal areas, its available and used widely all over the country in various other names but the mentioned name is used along the Indian ocean coastal strip from Rufiji to Tanga. In an impressive departure from the inefficient practices of other pharmaceutical approving bodies around the world ours encourages universality of function. A  drug, or rather ‘the drug’ as the indefinite article ‘the’ is most relevant in our case,(like when one discusses the sun), should be capable of treating mostly all diseases and prevent them from happening altogether, also ‘disease’ is defined in a wider manner, much wider than the narrow sense with which western companies choose to do in order to sell too many types of concoctions to extort money from ailing people. Diseases should range from fevers, abdominal upsets, lost pregnancies, limb fractures, runaway lovers, underperforming businesses etc. Actually whatever complains brought up by a ‘patient’ should be within the treatable spectrum as the method with which the ingredients are sourced leaves no room for an ailment to fall out of the said spectrum.
Effort should be made as much as possible to gather the barks of as many varieties of plants as possible as well as roots, scratch away the grains from as many types of rocks as possible (clue: wild animals are known to lick rocks),also on account that when a snake is taking herbs for treating another and you see it by chance, it runs after you aggressively implying the potency of a herb derives also from secrecy in procuring it, we recommend, its usual practice but here we are setting up a legal framework, that all herbs should henceforth be sourced in total secrecy, preferably at night and if possible without clothing so as to avoid the overly inquisitive people from  forensically extracting information from the clothes of the herbs man/woman.
Having set out the preliminaries, the advantages of our medical field cannot be over emphasized, a mixture of all the above ingredients can be accommodated in a single bag and all one needs to dispense medicines from that point on is a spoon. The amount dispensed is solely a function of the amount of money received, dosage is liberal. Again too many conditionalities are a hindrance to herbal practice so if a user of drugs should feel like taking alcohol there is no need why they should not. Such conditions are provided to patients by western trained practitioners so as to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidate their patients, we are a free people.

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