Books and posters may be bought and collected from the Marianum Press in Kisubi (between Kampala and Entebbe). Contact Mr Richard Katimba, Tel: 041 321341 / 321697    
Email: marianumpress(at)yahoo.com

Monik Adriaens - a tribute

It is with deep sorrow that we learnt of the premature death of Monik Adriaens on March 3rd following a vaccination against yellow fever.

Monik was a tireless worker on behalf of the people of southwest Uganda, and the environment. With vision and great determination she was the driving force behind the establishment of Tooro Botanical Gardens in Fort Portal. Her book ”Family Medicinal Plant Gardens in the Rwenzori Region” and her report concerning the dangers of using DDT as a spray to kill mosquitoes arose out of her passionate devotion to the welfare of farming families in the Kabarole and Kasese Districts. She supported them in becoming much more skilled and self-reliant through organic farming methods and the cultivation and use of local medicinal plants.

I personally appreciated her warmth, her commitment and her competent organisation in March last year when I had the honour to run a seminar together with her in Kasese for 30 of the many people from the district with whom she was working.

Monik will be greatly missed. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to her husband Rudy, her family and all those for whom Monik was a tower of strength.

Keith Lindsey

anamed has been active in Uganda for almost ten years. As a result, many people, projects and health centres are:

• growing a large number and variety of medicinal plants in their medicinal gardens, including Artemisia annua which is used primarily to treat malaria and to strengthen the immune system of AIDS patients.
• making teas, ointments, oils, tinctures and black stones.
• enjoying improved nutrition through drinking water, herbal teas and fruit juices and knowing what are the most nutritional foods to grow and eat.
• treating malaria, diarrhoea, asthma, haemorrhoids, skin problems and many other complaints. In addition the lives of HIV/AIDS patients are being dramatically improved with the use of artemisia tea and either moringa leaf powder or grain amaranth.
• involving and teaching the local community about all aspects of Natural Medicine.

There are also an increasing number of health centres and hospitals that use anamed’s medicinal preparations. Traditional healers too are working openly and using the anamed’s preparations. As a result of developing trust in anamed seminars, there are ever more situations in which health centres and healers are working together.

Today there is a network of anamed practitioners across Uganda, from Kei in the extreme north-west, through to Rakai in the extreme south-west, and from Luweeru in the south to Kotido and Gulu in the north.

The following are Coordinators of “anamed District Networks” Luweeru group: Christiane Depner 0772 181 064 depners(at)gmx.de Mount Elgon Group: Vincent Munyosi 0782 312 0 00 vmunyos(at)yahoo.com   Soroti, Serere, Kumi Mary Elungat 0774 920 461 maryelungat(at)yahoo.com Kotido / North-east Uganda Joel Owilli 0782 529 316 apalosirimoe72(at)yahoo.com   West Nile Christopher Nyakuni 0774 889 571 christophernyakuni(at)yahoo.com (only occasional email access) Masaka Rehema Namyalo 0702 493 186 r_namyalo (at) yahoo.com Soroti Gideon Obaikol 0772 825 983 ghillvtc (at) yahoo.co.uk

Thus we are very happy to say that many thousands of people in Uganda are benefiting from Natural Medicine as taught by anamed.

Natural Medicine Resources

1.   anamed publications are available from Marianum Press, Kisubi. Contact Richard Katimba,
Tel: 041 321341 / 321697    
Email: marianumpress(at)yahoo.com

2.  Monik Adriaens has written the excellent book “Family Medicinal Plant Gardens in the Rwenzori Region”. Available from Marianum Press. Price: about 20,000 Uganda Shillings.

anamed publications include:

“Natural Medicine in the Tropics I” by Hirt and M’Pia. The “anamed Bible” that gives details ofover 60 medicinal plants and many treatments.

“Natural Medicine in the Tropics: II Treatments” by Hirt and Lindsey, our seminar handbook.

“Natural Medicine in the Tropics: III AIDS and Natural Medicine” by ”Hirt, Lindsey and Balagizi”

Full colour poster “Medicinal Plants in the Tropics”

Would you like to learn more about Natural Medicine in your district?

For most people their work with Natural Medicine began after attending an anamed training seminar. anamed international has held week-long seminars in Week-long seminars have been held in Arua, Kasese, Kei, Kisubi, Masaka, Mbale, Soroti and Usuk. However many Ugandans are now regularly involved in training activities themselves, and the word is spreading rapidly.

If you would like to be in touch with people in your district who are already practising Natural Medicine, then please contact one of the people in the list below. You may even like to ask for help in organising a training seminar for your organisation. This could be for an afternoon, a full day or even a week.

The following are experienced seminar leaders:
Rehema Namyalo	0772 493 186	r_namyalo(at)yahoo.com
Nyakuni Christopher	0774 889 571	christophernyakuni(at)yahoo.com (with only occasional email access)
Mundua Samuel	0782 834 603

 

For more information about anamed seminars, see “What are anamed seminars”

If you would like to arrange an anamed seminar, please contact one of the experienced seminar leaders listed above, or write to Keith Lindsey in Germany, anamed(at)t-online.de

Read reports of seminars held in Uganda, in 2004, 2006 (pdf file) and 2007 (pdf file)

If you would like to arrange an anamed seminar, see “seminar possibilities”