Covid-19 virus
Nigeria’s National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given approved for a herbal remedy for the treatment of the symptoms associated with the COVID-19 disease. This was announced by the Director of the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, Ewu, Edo State, Rev. Fr. Anslem Adodo, whose laboratory produced the herbal medicine.
Rev. Fr. Adodo’s revelation, the subject of an internal memo that has gone viral on social media, Adodo noted: “After a series of screening, spanning eight weeks, NAFDAC has today approved our Paxherbal COVID-19 herbal drug, Paxherbal Cugzin, for public use.
“It is the first to be so approved and presently the only one. The drug is specifically for treating the symptoms associated with the coronavirus.”
According to him, NAFDAC had earlier tacitly given a go-ahead for the drug to be tested, even though the agency did not make the approval official, hence the initial packs of the herbal remedy bore the disclaimer, “these claims have not yet been verified by NAFDAC.”
However, with the green light given, Paxherbal Cugzin currently has the NAFDAC assigned recognition number: A7-4358L.
Pax Herbal Cugzin, which had earlier been produced under the brand name, ‘CVD PLUS,’ before it was rebranded to ‘Paxherbal Cugzin,’ is in capsules and packaged in a container of eighty 290mg capsules, each containing Garcinia Kola, Curcuma Longa and Zingiber officinale.
On April 29, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories released a press statement on its official Facebook page “About Cure For COVID-19,” though the claim was really about the “treatment” of COVID-19.
