A seminar in 2003, facilitated by Dr Hans-Martin Hirt, a German pharmacist from the German organisation ANAMED (Action for Natural Medicine), inspired HUYAMU to begin to cultivate, produce and use natural medicines. The medicines have proven very successful in healing and mitigating the symptoms of many diseases.

Examples for natural medicine:

• Neem leaves fight fungal infection.
• Euphorbia Hirta treats Amoebiasis and gives relief for Asthma.
• Artemisia Annua leaves heal Malaria.
• Garlic helps in Diabetes and high blood pressure and strengthens the immune system.
• Chili ointment helps rheumatism.

But natural medicines (like Artemisia Annua and Moringa) also show remarkable results in PLWH/A (People living with HIV/AIDS). They improve the general condition of the patients – including increase in appetite, weight gain, and healing of opportunistic infections.

Some of our ANAMED products:

• Artemisia Annua: Malaria, immunity booster
• Artemisia Annua Charcoal: cough, Mkaratusi: cough, bronchitis
• Moringa: nutrition, Diabetes, high blood pressure, immunity booster
• Moringa seeds: Diabetes, high blood pressure
• Aloe-Neem-soap: fungus, skin problems
• Toothpowder Mkaratusi: dental hygiene, tooth problems
• Aloe-Vera-honey: peptic ulcers
• Black stone: snake and scorpion bites
• Amygdalina: Malaria

Ointments:

• Chili: rheumatism, joint pain
• Neem: fungus
• Artemisia: fungus, other skin problems
• Guava: Haemorrhoids, eczema

Besides natural medicine, nutrition and food security is another area of HUYAMU: Soya (using soya beans and Amaranth) is produced in order to improve nutrition, and strengthening health and immunity. Through the teaching about and use of ‘sackbeets’, people are enabled to grow vegetables with very little water and on very small room.