Remedy to a dengue-rous predicament

CEBU, Philippines - The potential of the “tawa-tawa” weed as alternative cure to the dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever is no laughing stock.

Virtual posting of unsolicited testimonies on the success of “tawa-tawa” concoction in increasing blood platelet count, in fact, gives us a lot to smile about. Proof that no matter how advanced production of synthetic drugs is, plants are irreversibly a powerhouse source of healing.

Computer programming graduate and alternative healing enthusiast Eli Erwin Casimero ([email protected]), in his book “Dengue Cure” wrote a dengue cure protocol (aka dengue treatment plan) and posted parts online to help others who are in such predicament.

According to Casimero, in January of this year, his brother asked for his help after noticing symptoms of dengue fever with a corresponding low blood platelet count. “It was something like 98, if my memory serves me right. I dutifully gave him a copy of my book so he won’t be guessing what to do. I told him to read up and that I would pop on over to his house early evening, as I still had meetings [to attend to] that day.”

He said that with the help of his driver, they scrounged around for “tawa-tawa” (Euphorbia hirta) or asthma weed/snake weed. In Luzon, some call it “buto-butones”; while here in the Visayas it is also called “gatas-gatas” and “mangagaw”.

“I was able to gather a few in our home village, but not enough. Then we went to meetings, and then got a few again. Then to the wet market, got a few again, and finally I had a bunch, enough for one dose of the dengue cure herb,” he added.

By the time he got to his brother’s house in the early evening, he learned that his brother had gathered a lot too from this big field in UP. “Funny, later on, or two days later, we found a lot of tawa-tawa just outside of the village walls, a whole long field. That’s what you get when you always drive, you don’t pay enough attention to your surroundings,” he recalled with a good laugh.

“My brother got well, of course. In fact, he almost overdosed on that tawa-tawa stuff. He thought, kasi, he should drink it for days and days. I told him two or three days is enough.”

“I didn’t take chances with my brother,” he further said. “I also taught him how to prepare juice from raw camote tops.”

Casimero, a herbal healing hobbyist, disclosed that “healing people and learning about true effective healing is turning out to be a passion. Initially this hobby healing is just for myself and my family. But since I’m a professional web developer, it dawned on me that I might as well make Web sites about what I know and hopefully help more people.”

He said that he is talking about “all the incurable diseases as branded by the common medical establishment.”

“Their ineptness to address common diseases is grossly unacceptable. Why the highest causes of death around the world are diseases which are easily curable to knowledgeable people.”

He also disclosed that his “hobby healing built up over the years due to the ineptness of the current medical monopoly.”

“Western medicine batted a zero-percent success rate in all the problems I previously encountered: overweight, severe cystic acne, sandfly bites, infertility, eczema, unexplainable viral infections, elevated resting heart rates, asthma, various skin eruptions, mitral valve prolapse, etc.”

“You could say I got into hobby healing out of necessity. Thanks to the Internet, fellow true healers can now communicate and we collectively upgrade our skills, tools and knowledge. I’m just a father who wants the very best for my children. And the best for my children’s health is truth - wherever that may lead,” Casimero further stressed. “No one has to die from dengue. Knowing how to cure dengue is half the battle.”

Moreover, it was learned that his aunt Portia Mabaling is the known herbalist at the National Housing Authority in Quezon City. “There are lots of tawa-tawa weeds growing around the NHA compound. Many NHA employees who have had trouble with dengue fever in their family have gone to Auntie Portia for help with the dengue cure,” he went on.

His Auntie Portia’s ‘recipe’ for dengue fever cure using tawa-tawa is as follows: (Take note this has nothing to do with teabags or capsules. Only freshly concocted tawa-tawa):

•Take five to six whole tawa-tawa weeds.

•Cut off the roots. Throw them all away, as these are not included in the tea.

•Wash and clean weeds thoroughly.

•Fill your boiling pot with clean water.

•Bring the weeds to a one-minute slow rolling boil.

•Pour the tawa-tawa concoction and let cool.

•Let the patient drink only the tawa-tawa concoction within a 24-hour period.

•Sip one to 1.5 glasses of the concoction every hour.