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Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen.

This is an honour for me to be able to discuss a subject that – as the chairman said – has caused a lot of controversy, probably not only in Britain and Africa but also in the United States.  I have been travelling to several parts of the world to explain the kind of work I am involved in, which I have been involved in since 1988 when I was working in this country as an ENT consultant surgeon: not on a permanent basis, because I was here from 1988 to 1992.

I was in a position to appreciate the problems that AIDS causes in 1988 because I had had years of experience in research and treatment of various other diseases.  And AIDS came as a special interest because it had no cure.  For period of eight years when in 1988 I found myself still working in Britain hoping some big  research organisation would come up with a solution, which it didn’t.  I decided to take part, no matter how little my contribution would be.  I said I would rather not stand by seeing fellow human beings devastated by this disease.

I had no financial backing, but depending on my salary in this country I put in what I little I could at that time.  I had first of all to know what this disease does to the body, as a basis form of information that had appeared in the papers that had been written up.   I knew that people like Robert Gallo and Luke Montaigner had found the virus and said it was the cause of AIDS, as we knew it up to now.  We were told all the time that it had no cure; once you have got it, it devastates your immune system, and you are then set on a course of destruction within a few years.  We had also in our environment a lot of people who had the disease and we saw what it could do.  We saw that especially in Africa it depressed the immune system: that one was open to the attack of diseases that originally he was immune to.

This of course created a fear.  Now unfortunately this fear was propagated to the point that anyone who got AIDS was made to despair because since there was no treatment it was like a person condemned to death and you just wait and stand by for that day when you will be hanged.  This is the situation even up to now.  Though we have had a few successes of other researchers coming up with forms of treatment, yet the same fear still follows those who have the disease.

My country of origin is Uganda, I started my work here; and I realised that there must be promoting factors that created this disease to be almost invariably fatal, and that all the treatments introduced made very little difference.  I looked first of all at what makes a person with AIDS die, and realised that opportunistic infections were the ones that actually execute the person.  But I also realised that those who had avoided certain other factors in their behaviour avoided this coming upon them much earlier.  So disease treatment and nutrition were very important.

I went back to Uganda: I had formulated an idea and sought one of the first patients I found in Kampala having been discharged from the hospital here in London, having been sent home to Uganda to die, so I thought.  I asked her brother for permission to treat the patient and he allowed me to do so.  Since the treatment was derived from traditional natural substances – which are from plants – as nature had arranged them, I had no fear of endangering my patients.  This is the basis of the treatment we now know as Mariandina.  We started on that and the treatment I gave to this young lady, who was bedridden, having throat infections, thrush, immediately improved.  Within a fortnight the girl who was bedridden started to walk again.

Now, literature has since revealed that those who have nutritional supplements – good nutrition – are better prepared  to survive these diseases.  I therefore took that course: I read the literature, found that this was true, we all know that vitamins and minerals, and certain enzymes are essential to the body.  Nobody can live without them.  We can believe what we have been told that allopathic medicine is beneficial, antibiotics and all these other drugs, alone cannot save the person unless one is properly nourished, so nutrition is of the utmost importance.

We therefore were on the right track.  Immunology Today, a journal has shown this over and over again.  Mariandina was formulated on that basis.  Mariandina is natural products made from vitamins, minerals and enzymes, various herbs together, and these form the replacement parts of the immune system that restore the normal immunity of an individual.  I have treated patients in Kampala to the tune of 17,000 people within a period of five years.  And this is no mean achievement: these patients were bedridden most of the time, some of them had candidiasis, they had lost  a lot of weight, which gives AIDS its characteristic name in Uganda – “slim”.  People lose weight; they get secondary infections, tuberculosis, recurrent malaria, and so on.  Some even get cancer, kaposi’s sarcoma.

Now, we have achieved with these Mariandina preparations, the recovery of the majority of those patients; 75% to 85% of our patients recover.  Mariandina A, B and J; and this is because in Mariandina, which is the product here, you can find the most important herbs, nutritional boosters and immune boosters of all types collected from all parts of the world.  I put them together: Mariandina A is the main one, it treats people with AIDS.  Within a week or two they feel different.  I have used it on people with gulf War Syndrome as well, which is also immune failure: and these people told me they have improved tremendously.

So it is not a question of faith or imagination; these pills are real and they work.  They are made according to the most modern pharmaceutical conditions to satisfy the requirements of the medical establishment, so it is on deception.  Even kaposi’s sarcoma, which is a very dangerous condition, can be dealt with using Mariandina J, which is a purely herbal preparation.  You will see why if you understand the scientific basis of cancer genes, which I had to go into myself.  Whereas the A restores the metabolism in the body cells, to normal, - that is why the person recovers – this (Mariandina J) restores the metabolism of cells to get it away from that of a cancer fell which is based on fermentation.

Whereas normal body cells do their metabolism, the organisation of energy, using what we call glycolysis, the burning of sugar, using enzymes which restore the normal balance to carry on with that function; but when it goes wild, then it becomes dependent on fermentation for the production of energy: that is a cancer cell, that is what it does, scientifically, Mariandina J restores the balance that it requires.

[From here Prof. Ssali goes on explaining using the display board].

The normal cell has a nucleus, and little structures called mitochondria; the nucleus controls everything happening in the cell.  This (mitochondria) controls the energy supplies of the body.

This is the one on which the virus concentrates its activities on, causing the cell to accumulate waste products such as hydrogen peroxide – which you know is a strong bleach – is produced here in metabolism.  But in a person with AIDS, this is not got rid of.  There are some others, but I don’t want to sidetrack you: for example nitric acid.  These destroy the cell mitochondria and break the cell wall.  So that a person with AIDS is losing cells: even the nucleus itself breaks down.

The chromosomes in here (the nucleus) get disrupted: that is what causes cancer in people with AIDS.  Because of that activity the cell wall is destroyed, these mitochondria burst out and get distorted; energy production is reduced.  The person gets weaker, cannot fight disease because the necessary metabolism is not taking place.  This is what leads to what we call AIDS.  Since you cannot metabolise normally, your enzymes are destroyed, you become vulnerable to attack by disease because you no longer manufacture your antibodies properly which depend on metabolism; you cannot use glucose properly so you convert to fermentation: you get cancer cells which grow and take control.

The details are not for today but this is basically what we had looked into when doing our research.  Some people have said there is no scientific ground for this: we have had a discussion already on Spectrum (radio): someone said, “Professor Ssali, you have no scientific evidence.”  I wish that this were the scientific platform, because then I would have shown him that this is not based on speculation, this is scientific study I have made and arrived at this conclusion.  I supplied what material was required, missing in the AIDS condition, and patients started to recover.  This can be demonstrated within a few days.  I have had patients here getting Mariandina from me in this country, some friends, others are not friends.  They can testify to this, they have recovered, they have improved, and they can tell you.  There are thousands in Uganda, it is not speculation, it is real.

But disinformation has been going round because the campaign, the disease, has turned into a commercial issue.  There are so many interested parties who want AIDS to continue as it is.  If you say you have discovered something beneficial and you are restoring hope among individuals, then that is interfering with the market, which is AIDS.  People have refused me support in Uganda just because I discovered something which is so popular.  People even went to the streets and demonstrated in Kampala demanding the restoration of Mariandina.  This is photographed, it has been shown on TV, and this is not my own making up.  But those big financial organisations have approached even our national organisations and industries and have offered big money to ban Mariandina so that they can market their own products.  This is what is taking place in Uganda.

My drug is lying at Entebbe Airport, worth 14,000 pounds, refused entry into Uganda where the people needed it: just because they brought 250,000 dollars and offered it to that person in authority, who banned Mariandina; and it is still lying at the airport.  This is the fact: I have the evidence, I have all this information.  This is not because Mariandina did not work, but because it was a fly in the ointment in the market of this money magnate.

We are the people who have to fight this war.  You will find this  disinformation going round, “there is no cure”; they do not want you to have hope.  They want you to have despair because they want you to go down in the grave.  I have brought hope to this world somehow.  People don’t believe it now, but they will know the right way forward.  In allopathic medicine we have little hope.  When you take for instance some of these drugs which are marketed as a cure for AIDS, they are replacement parts, we call them nuceo-analogues: it means they give a spare part to the body which is not real.  It is not organic, and the body cannot use it.  The body mistakes it for the real thing and so it kills the DNA.

DNA is the source of life, now if you inhibit certain enzymes like protease enzymes, and you inhibit them for years, you kill the person because those enzymes are working normally in the body: everybody needs them.  If somebody says, “I want to get rid of vermin, mice, in your house: I will destroy all the grain in this house and in this area.”  Then you won’t have the grain you stored.  So for eliminating the vermin you destroyed the grain, you will starve to death.  This is the way people using some of the allopathic drugs, the methods they have used.  I don’t believe that works.  If the DNA is built using false spare parts … you see the gene is given something that is not real, an analogue, something similar, whereas the real thing would have come from a fruit, from an apple or a green vegetable.  But if you take the drug your body will think it has got the right thing, and will start using it; but will not survive for long, for it breaks the DNA chain.  This is how some of the drugs work.

So I have used the natural products: natural products give you the real thing; that is how we have survived.  I think the fall of man, when we brought this about is when we invented fire and came out of the forest and thought we had entered an age of civilisation, of discovery.  I think that would have been the worst mistake.  If you look around, the monkeys in the forest are not dying of AIDS.  They have the same SV40 virus; they are not suffering.  Even in laboratories they have failed to infect monkeys.  The reason they don’t die is because they eat naturally; they eat fruit, greens.  If you eat fruits and greens, ingredients as nature put them together, you survive longer than if you depend on drugs made by man.  This is the principle on which Mariandina works.

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If you want more information about Professor Ssali’s research work, to order Mariandina, or to assist his research effort write to: The Mariandina AIDS Research Foundation, c/o 24 Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 2BW. Telephone: 0208 864 8972 or (evenings) 0956 845719.  E-mail to: ssali@globaalnet.co.uk.  You can also visit the website by directing your browser to http://www.mariandina.or.ug

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS
CONFERENCE

ON AIDS TREATMENT

BY

PROFESSOR CHARLES SSALI.

THE PRESS CONFERENCE
WAS HELD IN LONDON

ON

THE 18TH MARCH 1998.

PRESS RELEASE

By Professor C.L. Ssali

Most research today serves the industrialised world, it is not beneficial to the third world where 90% of the AIDS problem is located.

The cost of AZT and Protease inhibitors is far beyond the reach of Africans, Asians and South Americans.  They are mainly within the reach of Americans and Europeans, who only carry less than 10% of the disease.

The objective of Mariandina research was to correct this anomaly.  The results of this research are published in the journal:  Transfigural Mathematics volume 2, number 2 1996.

History of this research:

In 1988 I studied the available literature on AIDS and the probably cause.

1). Immune suppression was reported to be the root cause.

2). Montague and Robert Gallo claimed to have isolated the virus HIV.

3). I studied Herpes Simplex which I knew to be related, Herpes also occurs where immunity is low.  I realised repair of immunity could not be achieved using chemicals.

4). Anti-oxidants were found to be essential to the recovery of the immune system.

5). Plants, herbs, vitamins and minerals were found to play an important role in the recovery of the immune system.

6). Nature’s combinations of minerals and anti-oxidants are unmatched by man’s knowledge of what is best for the proper nourishment of the body, and the requirements of the immune system.

7). Damage to the immunity is commonly due to the following:

· Nutrition deficiency

· Pollution of environmental factors such as air and water by the use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers, fossil fuels, and radiation pollution etc.

· Misuse of drugs, for example antibiotics, contraceptives, smoking, alcohol, artificial colours and sweeteners of foods and drinks.

· The genetic manipulation of food products, with the sterilisation by chemicals and radiations of foods.

· Genetic engineering of bacteria and the viruses.

· Vaccinations using artificially manipulated viruses and bacteria and antigens which introduce new genes into the immune system.

These factors result in the damage of our body cells and immunity.  They result in the diseases known as auto-immune diseases such as Jacobs Disease, Mad Cows disease, MS, Lupus erythmatosis, Rheumatic diseases, Gulf War syndrome (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Dengue fever, Ebola, Cancer and Hepatitis.

8). Auto-immune diseases are due to the fact that the body’s immune cells are wrongly programmed by the introduction of the foreign genes that alter its memory cells and make them fail to recognise self cells.  The body cells themselves are also re-labelled to make them look strange and un-recognisable by the defence cells as self.  There follows destruction of body cells from friendly fire.

 This is a result of the production of anti-bodies against the new antigens created by the addition of new genes, and proteins that attach themselves to body cells and chromosomes.  This is commonly due to radiation, genetic engineering, vaccinations and toxic chemicals introduced onto the body as “drugs”.

How do we correct this?

· History is the source of information to correct what we have done wrong.  Scurvy was treated by correcting the diet of sailors on long sea voyages.  Man was designed to eat from plants as the main source of food because in plants you find the best nutrients of anti-oxidants and minerals.

· The Bible tells us not to make hybrid seeds.  It we go back to the fall of man in Genesis, we learn that by disobeying God’s command not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledge that he said would result in death, we made a fatal mistake.  By that act alone we acquired knowledge of good and evil.  If this is correctly  translated, it reveals that we acquired good knowledge and evil knowledge.  The evil knowledge is what brought about death in various ways when we discovered the art of making fires, and we called it civilisation.  It is this civilisation dating back to the time when man began to cook his food thus destroying the nutrients in food that would have kept the immune system intact to fight off disease.

· The purification of grain leads to the elimination of essential vitamins and minerals.  The radiation of food for the purpose of sterilisation is detrimental.  The discovery of nuclear physics and the splitting of the atom have created weapons of mass destruction that threaten the existence of the human race.

· This the evil knowledge that the almighty God did not want us to acquire.  We are polluting our environmental by burning fossil fuels in automobiles and we manipulate our own genes to create new genetically altered human beings.  The consequences of which we cannot foresee.

· Doctor Richard Lacey a biologist in this country warned us a long time ago that Mad Cows disease is going to be a new disease in humans in the future.  On the 17th March 1998, he appeared on Sky television and reiterated this warning.

· Doctor Garth Wilson of California discovered the presence of a new organism called Micro Plasma Fermentans among the Gulf War veterans causing a disease similar to AIDS, which affected his daughter, his wife, himself, his dog and cat.  The cat and dog died.  This suggests that the disease is highly contagious.

Mariandina research has established that:

1). Immune suppression diseases respond very well to the correction of the nutritional status of the individual affected by the use of leafy vegetables and other foods of vegetable origin.  This is because they form the main source of anti-oxidants minerals and other micro nutrients needed by the body.

2). We thereby repair the damage done to our cell systems, immune function defences.  In this way we repair the cell structures like mitochondria, the nucleus, cell walls, and body enzymes.

3). The causes of cancer though not fully known depend on the upset of the immune system, and deranged metabolism.

Results of the Mariandina  research:

Therefore we formulated Mariandina A, B, and J, capsules.  They contain a special formula that imitates nature’s formulation of what is in vegetable foods.  The anti-oxidants included are among the most powerful found in nature.  They act as free radical scavengers that prevent damage to enzymes and mitochondria.  They also create unfavourable conditions for the multiplication of harmful organisms.  This also corrects the tendency to genetic mutation of our own genes which may result in cancer.

The damage to the body cells by free radicals could be compared to iron rust.  The common hydrogen peroxide, and nitric acid, are by products of normal metabolism in the cell.  They convert glucose into energy.  However the lack of anti-oxidants leads to their accumulation, and subsequent damage to the cell structures.  Originally we had a gene that enabled us to make an enzyme called gulano galactose oxidase which converts glucose into vitamin C as it does in lower animals saving them the need to eat greens and fruit regularly for survival of the immune system.  This is what protect flies, mosquitoes, and mice which can carry and transfer diseases to man with fatal results.  The guinea pig lost it too, and thus acquires ailments such as those afflicting man.

In some other cases the failure to metabolise glucose leads to some body cells using fermentation as an energy source.  This results in cancer.

If all the irregularities in nutrition and pollution to the body are corrected within our internal environment as occurs when Mariandina is utilised, the body’s immunity is repaired and good health is restored.

We have treated 17,000 patients between 1992 and 1998, with improvement the quality of life to 70-80%.

I am not claiming to eliminate HIV from the body completely because I don’t think that is possible with any medication.  What I am saying is that people who have used my medication when in advanced full blown AIDS have improved in the majority of cases to the extent that they have returned to their original occupations.  The symptoms and signs that had previously reduced them to a bedridden state have disappeared.  These remissions in some cases have gone on for years despite their having discontinued treatment with Mariandina.  Those that had severe Herpes Simplex 1 and 2, are rid of it by using Mariandina J.

The cost of Mariandina  treatment is only a fraction of the conventional aggressive treatments currently on the market.  The other advantage is the lack of toxic side-effects even when used for long periods of time.  This is in sharp contrast to Protease Inhibitors that are targeted at HIV elimination.

Charles Ssali.
 

MARIANDINA AIDS SYNDROME TREATMENT:
A PRESS CONFERENCE BY
PROFESSOR CHARLES SSALI,
LONDON
18TH MARCH 1998

SYNOPSIS:

On Thursday 18th March, Professor Charles Ssali held a press conference at the Harrow Quality Hotel, North London to present his findings on the effectiveness of Mariandina treatment and to explain the varied reactions to it in Uganda in particular, but also internationally.

Reporters from several publications attended.  After his presentation, Professor Ssali answered questions covering issues such as the availability of his treatment, its effectiveness as an immune booster, and the intrigue that has led to the banning of Mariandina in Uganda.

Mariandina treatment is a range of medications based on Prof. Ssali’s findings that auto-immune syndromes, most notably AIDS, respond favourably to a combination of antioxidants and traditional African herbal compounds.  It is especially significant that a recent small-scale trial on gulf-War Syndrome patients in the USA has led to a great improvement in their health, where other treatments had shown no significant results.

He stressed that he does not claim the treatment “cures AIDS”, saying that unofficial testimonials from many of his patients may have made such a claim, but that he as a medical doctor realises that so far as a definitive cure for AIDS has not been found.  He cites many patients who feel such a great improvement in their well-being that they feel effectively cured, while pointing out that once a particular virus has multiplied in the body it can only be held in check, but not absolutely eliminated.  By way of example he mentioned the herpes simplex (cold sores or genital herpes) and herpes zoster (shingles) which appear only when the immune system is suppressed; these are some of the viral problems that are cleared by Mariandina.

Prof. Ssali said that large-scale pharmaceuticals industry interests had combined with prejudice against African researchers to culminate in a health ministry ban on his importing Mariandina to Uganda; the complicity of Uganda government officials has made it difficult to challenge the ban successfully.

The ban in effect prevents Prof. Ssali from carrying out treatment on Ugandan patients.  He showed pictures of patients demonstrating in Kampala for a lifting of the ban; he points out that the ban is still in place in spite of such popular support and the fact that the treatment has only minor side-effects and is affordable.  By contrast, the effectiveness of protease inhibitors and AZT is not proven, their side effects are serious and they are prohibitively expensive for the majority of African patients.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY PROF. CHARLES SSALI
LONDON 18 MARCH 1998

Stephen Ssali: I would like to welcome you to Prof. Ssali’s presentation on his work.  He is going to be talking to you about the science of his treatment and how he has done the research for ten years and come up with an amazing treatment for AIDS.  He was educated in Makerere and at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

He has had a lot of opposition in Uganda, due to causes he does not know working against him.  Today he would like to talk about the science behind his treatment, and he will be illustrating graphically how we go about the treatment.

Do feel free to ask any questions during or after the presentation.  After an hour we will be breaking for coffee, and you can put questions to the Professor then.  If you feel you need to have a further interview with him, he can be reached.

Now I invite Prof. Ssali to present his work.  Thank you.

Prof. Ssali: Thank you Stephen.

Welcome ladies and gentlemen.  I am from Uganda and my work in the last ten years has been concerning research in the treatment of AIDS.  I have drawn out what you see as a guide for you to look into whenever you feel like asking a question.  You can always stop me and I will be prepared to answer any questions you might want to ask.

The purpose of my starting my research on AIDS was when I realised in 1988 that the international community all over the world had not come up with anything that could help humanity to escape this pandemic devastating the world;  I had attended several international conferences and I had not found any relief.  I believed that no AIDS sufferers had found any relief.  There was an atmosphere of despair, especially in the third world.

You know that Uganda is considered to be the epicentre of the AIDS explosion.  That is where I was born, and that is where I was educated in Makerere University, qualified as a bachelor of medicine and surgery from Makerere University.  I later went to do postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and also in the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

After my studies I went back to Uganda and worked as a consultant in Mulago Hospital, ear nose and throat surgery, otorhinolaryngology.  Later I taught in the university and did research during that time.  That gave me the background experience of research that I have used in my work on the AIDS pandemic.  I researched into diseases like croup; at the time croup, which is laryngo-tracheobronchitis, had no effective treatment.  People used to make tracheotomies, holes in the neck, for children to breathe.  I thought since I was the ENT surgeon and was called on to do these tracheotomies, I decided to look into the possibility of doing without these.  At that time we had the traditions from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, teaching us how to go about such problems.  I thought I could look into that, and after about four years of research I came out with a new treatment that does not require tracheotomy.  Now, you might know that now in Great Ormond Street they no longer use tracheotomy on these children.  This is because I published the research and it was incorporated in the book The Child in the African Environment.

Then I did other research on scleroma, which is a condition like a tumour.  By way of background, scleroma is a bacteria infection which blocks the nose and chokes the person.  They used to call it a cancer, hence the name “scleroma”, but it is not a cancer, my research established that there is a bacterium which lives in the cell vacuole, m. scleromatis.  This is the bacterium that causes the cancer-like tumour scleroma.  It used to kill a lot of people in Africa, and Russia and Germany and other countries, because they considered it a tumour and so used to excise them.  My research established that this was an infection.  I published this in the journal of otorhinolaryngolo in 1973 and even now they use that kind of treatment for the condition along with antibiotics, and the patient returns to normal.

So much for background.  I wanted to find a treatment that would help third world countries because the available treatments then were very expensive, as you can read from the handouts.  The AZT that was available at that time – and even now is so expensive – cost in the region of $1,500.  That is a big sum of money for an African patient who is debilitated and out of work.  Thus I was looking for a kind of treatment that was cheap enough and yet effective, to help people in third-world countries where the AIDS problem is even more pronounced.

I did the research from 1988 when I first observed that herpes, the blisters that form on the lips, only happens to people who have a lowered immunity.  They have a fever, malaria or pneumonia, and they get herpes blisters.  That is the first observation I made.  I realised that this comes when the immune system is somewhat reduced, in the way that HIV behaves.  I started looking into the treatment of herpes and after about six months I found a way of reducing herpes, not only herpes simplex that causes blisters on the lips, but also genital herpes.

Those of you who have been involved in work with this treatment know that it does not go away easily.  Herpes simplex is a world-wide problem, especially in this era of AIDS: it causes very painful sores on the genital and perineal  region and they don’t heal, they just go on getting larger.  My work was to find a solution to that.  Some people have said that I did not publish anything, but it is not true.  If you look at the Journal of Transfigural Mathematics, it will demonstrate how there are people who have been telling so many lies about me, that they forced me to try and disprove their accusations.  I have here pictures which indicate that I have actually treated people.

After realising that herpes is related somehow to the infection of HIV it seemed likely that they came about in a similar way.  I started my work on HIV.  HIV is a tenacious infection;  as you have realised, since 1980 when it broke out, it does not go away by purely orthodox methods of treatment.  It requires such a lot of investigation and have caught up so many scientists.  Just because of that people have come to the conclusion that there is no way to remove the virus from the body.

I would like to make it clear that I am making no claims to curing HIV.  If patients claim that, it is not my words.  Because they have improved because of my treatment, that is what they say not my pronouncement.  What I am saying is that my research has come up with a medication that can clear away the symptoms and signs brought about by immune suppression.

HIV causes AIDS, and AIDS means immune suppression; when you have immune suppression you have infections of every type; infections that originally you were resistant to, opportunistic infections from bacteria that are not normally infectious, that you find everywhere but that are harmless to a person with a good immune system.  That is what we call opportunistic infection: they take the opportunity offered by your low immunity to attack you.  This is what is called AIDS.

If you follow this schedule [showing chart], you will see that in 1988 I went to my wife’s kitchen – I am not a chemist and do not have access to a lab – and used natural known antioxidants to compound a medication, knowing that where we have gone wrong is in thinking that only chemicals can help treat disease.  But nature has the widest variety of therapeutic components that we can use.  If you read the Bible you will find reported that when God sent man out of the garden because he had eaten of the forbidden fruit he told him to go and grow crops and eat the plants, because plants were meant to be the source of healing.

We have somehow mistranslated the Bible.  When the Bible says we ate of the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, that is not what annoyed God; that is like knowing that a book is good and reading it; if you say the book is bad you avoid it.  This research is based on the principle; we gain by the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil.  You know that this book is good and this book is evil.  No one will be annoyed if your child does not read a book of Mafia, but reads a good one.  If you read this book of evil knowledge then what you get out of it is evil.  If this was a Mafia book you learn from it how to do evil.  And that is what we did.  We got the evil knowledge and applied it.

We misused nature: we discovered the fire and used it to cook our food, and destroyed the nutrients, and similar things.  Now we have also manipulated nutrients, changing them by genetic engineering.  What I did was to compose something that would be useful, from nature.

[Showing photo of female AIDS patient].  She is Ugandan, and had come from Uganda to London to study English.  When she was found to have HIV she was sent to hospital for treatment, but when she was undergoing treatment they discovered that it was advanced AIDS: she had low white blood cell count, she had severely infected skin, she had dementia, she was sent back to Uganda for treatment.  When she got there she was unconscious, and her relatives were preparing to take her back to their ancestral area, to die there, when I met her brother.  I asked him if he could allow me to use my treatment on this young lady, and he agreed.

I gave her treatment which I had composed by mixing various antioxidants and minerals, and I advised them to give the patient fluids, for she was dehydrated.  Within two weeks this girl had improved, and had started to engage in rational conversation.  Another month passed and the girl was able to walk about and do some house work.  That was the beginning, after six months, she met me in Kampala having walked on her own five miles from home.

This was the start of the research treatment that I am now presenting to you.  I treated other people in a “double blind study”: I wanted to study a group of ten patients who would get the real treatment and ten patients who would have a placebo.  (Of course the placebo would be a blank tablet, but they were entitled to take any other treatment that was available at the time).  The doctor administering the treatment was not aware of what the bottles contained; they were just labelled as you see here, A, B, C, D etc.  The patients were matched, similar in their complaints.

So each of the twenty got a treatment for a period extending over eight months, in so far as they survived.  [Pointing out an OHP table of comparative survival and recovery rates for the two groups in the trial] Of those who got Mariandina, the composition that you see there, they survived from one to seven years.  Two could not be traced; whether they survived, I do not know; but I knew two died, and six are alive up to now, from 1988.  Of those who got the placebo, the survival was only four to eight months.  One was lost to follow-up, but this was the survival figure; the longest survival was eight months.  That shows the big difference in survival between those using Mariandina and those not using it.

You have to realise that I am not financed by any organisation: I am self-financed, researching on my own.  I cannot do a large-scale double blind tests: some people have criticised me for this, but this is the condition I have to work in.  Most of the double blind tests you hear about are financed by organisations that make available millions of dollars.  For my part I have done what is possible with the capacity I have.

Before showing you what I used in Mariandina I want to show you some of the principles of AIDS treatment.  There is a vicious circle in AIDS: it is produced by a factor not known certainly but probably related to a virus: it is blamed as the cause of all the problems to do with AIDS.  But that is not our main problem.  Whatever the factor it causes disease, the depression of immunity.

One notes that sufferers have diseases that they did not suffer from before.  If you trace backwards how they got them, unless you find the cause of something, you cannot treat it.  We found that AIDS syndrome was preceded by the presence of excess pollutants which are known to promote the production of free radicals.  This is what happens in the body when a person has been smoking or eating poorly.  These free radicals promote damage to the immune system causing cellular and humoral immunosuppression.  This state of affairs allows the free growth of bacteria, fungi, and viruses to produce to the state we have now described as AIDS.

To reverse this process one must ensure that pollutants like drugs, chemicals, antiseptics, artificial colours and sweeteners, habitual prophylactic use of antibiotics, contraceptives and smoking are removed.  This is the first thing that anybody being treated must cut out.  And that is if you are Mariandina, you must try to eliminate these as far as possible.  It will still work if you have some of these they do curtail its effect.  It is much better to remove these by which the situation has been brought about.

There are many vitamins, and I only want to take a few as an example.  People generally use these vitamins, but there are very many others; if you examine the components of a leaf you will find hundreds of different ones.  These components are essential for life and they work in synergy with each other.  It may be vitamin A or (??) but if we purify down to a tablet just these few we think are useful are leaving out those other vitamins, all of which have a vital function in the body.  These are just a few examples.  [Pointing to charts of vitamins C, B, A, etc. and their various roles in the body].  Each sum particular requirement of a person with reduced immunity, reduced cellular ageing as a result of oxidation and so on.

Hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid are examples of by-products of metabolism within cells.  The mitochondria are the intra-cellular bodies where glucose is metabolised to give energy; in them you have enzymes, and free radicals are produced there as a result of this metabolism.  If you do not have those nutrients we talked about called antioxidants, these will accumulate and break up the mitochondria and even cause damage to DNA.  What happens in people with AIDS is that because of the action of the virus they accumulate a lot of free radicals, which break up the mitochondria that stop metabolising.  This occurs especially in the gut, so that the patient loses appetite and thus not taking in enough of those vitamins they get worse, weaken, until the time comes when they cannot move.

Most of the patients brought were in a dying state.  People like the [showing photos]: we had very many such patients: it is called wasting syndrome.  In the United Kingdom you find that people may not thin down, but in Uganda and other African countries the people become very thin as a result of this condition; they may not have many other problems, but they are thin.

[Showing photos) This is Mariandina Clinic where we do this work.  Patients who are too sick can be put up here; they usually stay for five to ten days.  During that period, although they came in a condition which prevented them from walking, they walk out several days later.  This was shown to CNN cameramen: they filmed patients as they were brought in and after some days filming a civil war they came back and found that the patients they had filmed had recovered.

[Showing photos]  This is another patient who was brought in an almost dead condition.  You can see that this lady was very dehydrated, unconscious, crusting in the mouth, but this is two months later, she is now back on the road, going back to work.  You may say that is an off-chance, but we have thousands of such cases.  I would like to invite people who have any interest to come and see for themselves, for it is difficult to be convinced unless you see for yourself.

I was telephoned today: they told me that there is a French crew in Uganda at my clinic wanting to see these pictures and the patients.  I told them to show the team around so that they will feel convinced by being on the spot that this is not fiction but information based on fact.  Another example is this patient with kaposi’s sarcoma.

They recovered because of these two preparations.  This one [Mariandina B] is an immune booster, composed purely of herbs known over the years by traditional healers in Africa.  We search the world for these herbs: many are found in the rain forests, others in the grasslands; some of them you know, others listed on the bottle.  Mariandina B is purely herbal: this [Mariandina A] has antioxidants and minerals.  This is Mariandina J, herbal; we progressed to this one in 1996 because we found that herpes and kaposi’s sarcoma were still killing our people.  The problem of dealing with herpes 1 and 2 is what led us to go back to the drawing board to find out which natural compounds could be used to beat these.

Kaposi’s sarcoma has existed and been known for many years;  whether it is caused by a virus is not the problem; it could be caused by radiation or other causes, but we think that the cases these days are mostly viral.  So viral kaposi’s is the one we targeted, not the other type that goes on for a long time in the legs.  What happened when we added the herbal composition of Mariandina J?  It produced very encouraging results.

<b>Question</b> from the floor: What are the names of these diseases in the Ugandan Luganda language?

Prof. Ssali: There are many terms and they are sometimes confusing.  For example, the type of kaposi’s on the leg is called “kokoroo” in Luganda, but it can also mean scleroma, the one I showed you earlier.  Kokoroo is an ulcer that never heals, which is why they refer to cancers as kokoroo: because it does not heal.  Traditional doctors knew that such incurable ulcers could lead to death.  Herpes is called “bisuyu”, not distinguishing between the different types of herpes.

I had to search alone, or asking people far afield such as South Africa, but without their being told exactly what the purpose was of what they were looking for.  Certain plants live in a particular place because of the presence of particular minerals that it requires, and it is those minerals that are important in that plant’s role in the body.  Some grow near the sea, others grow as parasites on trees, so there is a reason why it is growing there.

These herbs are then collected, sent to a reputable pharmaceutical company that crushes, purifies and makes them into capsules.  Here are some examples.  They do not produce toxic symptoms in anyone because they are natural; this is a value of herbal treatments.  If you eat too much of a particular herb, you may get harmed, but we compose them so that they cannot harm anybody.

Mariandina J is used to treat persistent sores of genital herpes.  You can use other antiviral treatments, but this is cheaper and its effect last longer.  You would take one capsule three times a day to maintain yourself free from herpes.  There is no harm in taking it for as long as you like, since it promotes health and resistance without side effects, boosting the immune system.  That is the value of this treatment, Mariandina A, B, and J.

There is also herpes zoster.  This causes another viral infection.  Called shingles, which produces a very painful scar.  If you use Mariandina J the scar will not be painful.   You may have experienced this, the pain that shoots through the whole scar.  With Mariandina J within ten days pain is gone.  If the blisters are caught when they are just starting, they will not progress.  If it has already become a big scar, it will still heal very well though the scar will remain as already damaged tissue.

Our experience with these three preparations from 1992 was that we had 1366 patients treated in 24 months.  Out of this total we had 983(?) who improved, that is 72%.  Those who stabilised were 123, which 9%.  Deteriorated were 40, and those who died were 122.  The total deteriorated were 164, that is 12%.  Lost to follow-up were 96.

We did a CD4 count and found that 59% improved their CD4 level these actually kept improving, and they went back to their work with their cell count back to normal.  People have found this difficult to believe, assuming you can’t improve the CD4 count.  Actually it improves because you have removed the cause that is damaging cells.  We find that in people with kaposi’s sarcoma and chronic infectious disease, once the cause is dealt with they also start to improve.

For instance, there is the role of some elements like zinc, which (?) an antioxidant factor.  This enables the thymus gland to produce thymosin, which activates lymphocytes, killer cells for cancer cells and the whole range of immune cells.  It does other jobs in the body but this is one of the key jobs.

Vitamin C modulates the immune system and is a powerful reducing agent.  These are the targeted actions of this vitamin.  We encouraged the people to eat antioxidant containing food during the treatment as well as those containing flavonoids, quinoids and so on.  These are found in carrots and other coloured vegetables.

During this exercise we realised that a person no matter how far affected by AIDS can return to normal and go back to his or her work maybe not having to revert to constant medication and treatment.  The patients we treated in 1988 are no longer on treatment.  They have stopped our treatment and are still doing well.  Those we treated between 1992 and 1994, some of them still attend depending on how late they started.  We advise them to have a very good diet, mainly from vegetable sources.  We ask them not to go back to the habits that pollute the immune system.

We also found that vaccinations have played an important role in depressing the immune system.  Let me read something from this book called “Vaccines: are they really safe?”  By Neil Z. Miller:  “AIDS during the 50’s and 60’s millions of people were injected with polio vaccine that was contaminated with SV40 virus as detected in the simian monkey organs used to prepare the vaccines.  SV40 is considered a powerful immune suppresser and trigger of HIV”.

On genetic mutation he says, “The polio vaccine contains monkey kidney cell culture and calf serum.  The measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are prepared in chicken embryos.  Monkey kidney, calf serum and chicken embryos are foreign proteins, biological matter from animal cells.  Because they are injected directly into the bloodstream they are able to change our genetic structure … “and leads to what is now called AIDS.  Because you have incorporated in your body a foreign protein, it transfers its genes into your own body’s genes, and as a result your immune system is now programmed to think that your own body is foreign.

So the result is that viruses are agents for the transfer of genetic imprints from the host to another.  In other words because they contain pure genetic material, DNA and RNA, from a foreign organism are injected into a human  recipient the new genetic material is incorporated into the invaded cells.  That produces what known as auto-immune disease.

You may have seen Dr Richard Lacey on Sky Television yesterday who was talking about mad cow disease.  He is a biologist; he warned this country and another countries that mad cow disease is going to become a very common disease in human beings.  He says that now we are on the verge of an explosion of Creuzfeld-Jakob disease.

In America I came across people who had been to the Gulf, who suffered from Gulf War Syndrome.  This I found was very similar to AIDS.  They had been given vaccinations before going to the Gulf.  Now they are down with mycoplasma, their immune system is defeated, they are suffering from all sorts of infections.  They are weak, they have general body pains.

I talked to the principal researcher there, Dr Garth Nicholson, a Nobel Laureate, who has a lot of research behind him.  His daughter went to the Gulf, she was a helicopter pilot in the First Airborne Division in Operation Desert Storm.  She came back, feel ill; when she fell ill they tried to find out what she was suffering from; at that time in 1992 they did not know what it was all about.

Then he realised that the mother of the girl also got the infection; they feared it was contagious, since she had not gone to the gulf.  Then it caught him too.  Later the dog and the cat got it too and died.  I went to his research institute and he told me this same story.  “We are a Persian Gulf War family, everyone in our family has suffered from Gulf War Syndrome.  Since we are medical researchers, we have been conducting a research effort on identifying possible causes and developing treatments for GWS”.

Approximately 100,000 have been to the Gulf War Operation Desert Storm, and in many cases their immediate family members are suffering from this syndrome.  Twenty-five of them have died.  In Dr. Nicholson’s research they found a mycoplasma, similar to that found in AIDS.  It is a microcellular organism that lives within the cell and occasionally comes out through the cell wall; the macrophanges, the body’s defence mechanism, cannot reach it here.  They usually use tetracycline or doxycycline to treat some of these patients, but it keeps recurring.  I asked him what he thought it was, and he said that all the people who went to the Gulf War were vaccinated.  This is in common with other similar syndromes.  These are his words not mine, which are in this document.

I showed him these pictures, I told him I was interested in the Gulf War problem and that I had researched on something very similar to what he was experiencing.  He was interested in having some Mariandina to research on.

I also went to an expo in San Diego, and found that there were many people suffering from this.  Dr Halwys is publishing a book called Emerging Viruses: Ebola and AIDS.  He asked me to say something, and I told them that I thought the GWS with symptoms of joint pains, general weakness, nausea, with sometimes mental problems, skin eruptions, coughs, tuberculosis, and so on were so similar to AIDS.  I said that they might respond to Mariandina.

Six patients came and said they wanted to try it.  I gave them a bottle each, and to my amazement five days later three of them rang me and said that they were feeling a big difference.  The joint pains and the weakness had disappeared.  I don’t mean they are cured in five days, but they have shown  tremendous improvements.  That was two weeks ago; they have sent me their present status, and they are far better than before taking Mariandina.

This was encouraging; I don’t know what causes GWS, and whether it really is similar to AIDS, but it is working.  It is always better to try out something, and as I said before I am doing this for those who cannot afford AZT or protease inhibitors, which they say eliminate the virus.  You never know, with Mariandina if you go on with the treatment and you increase your immune system, it is the best way of fighting the problem.  There is no better way of fighting a disease than your own immune system.

Even in Uganda we have AZT and protease inhibitors.  The very rich people buy these.  We don’t usually see them very often after that, but we think they probably benefit, otherwise they would not go on with it.  The very poor are those we see return to their work with Mariandina  you only need about 45 pounds per month and you get your treatment.

Question:  Are there any side-effects with Mariandina?

Prof. Ssali:  With Mariandina J you get loose bowels.  This is actually part of the way it helps to clear the virus, since it breeds a lot in the gut lining.  If you take them on an empty stomach you might get a slight heartburn.  Those are the only side effects I know of.  Generally people don’t mind that too much.  There are other aggressive treatments that give far worse.

Question:  What about getting access to the treatment in the UK? Some people have been complaining that they had to go to Uganda to get Mariandina.

Prof. Ssali: I am not practising here in London, but those who want to reach me can do so by e-mail or telephone or fax.  Then we can instruct you on how to get access.  You can also look at our web-site.

Question:  Have you established how long on average someone might have to take the tablets?

Prof. Ssali:  A long-term study I have done found that it varies with individuals.  One example is a couple;  both had diabetes as well as AIDS.  They started in 1988 and stopped in 1991.  This was in order to get Kemron, being produced in Kenya.  When they went they were tested and told, “You don’t have HIV; you are negative.”

They had been on Mariandina for four years.  They came to the UK were tested again and found to be negative.

I have treated 27 patients with diabetes and they do not need insulin any more.

Question:  Have you considered combining interferon (such as Kemron) with Mariandina?

Prof. Ssali: since it has been discredited, why should I combine Mariandina with it?

Question:  Why do you refer to AIDS as the target for Mariandina since it has a broader spectrum of uses?  Why not call it “antioxidant rather than AIDS treatment, since it seems to have applications in problems like arthritis.

Prof. Ssali: AIDS is what I aimed at.  If you have TB, and used antibiotics together with Mariandina treatment, TB has to be treated specifically just like malaria.  The difference is that with Mariandina the immunity system takes over and you will not get any more problems.

People with candida infections take Mariandina and the problem goes away.  I am talking about immune suppressions; anyone with immune suppression can benefit from Mariandina, Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematous … My brother had hepatitis and I gave him Mariandina.  Very soon he was out of hospital, eating well because he had jaundice, tender liver, and so on.

I have a patient here [showing picture] – I am still answering your question – with Kamposi’s; see the lesions of Kaposi’s here and her had a patient treated here in London for cancer of the larynx, who had radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and so on.  They sent him home because the cancer had spread, invaded the parotid gland.

When he reached Uganda in December last year he had multiple haemorrhages.  When I went to see him – because I knew him – he was being fed through a tube.  He is still alive and his condition is gradually improving.  Even the ulcers which do not normally heal are doing so.

Question:  Even Dr Gallo in 1993 admitted that there are patients with kaposi’s sarcoma but no HIV infection.  I remember you talking about all the types of virus:  What is the effect of Mariandina on these?

Prof. Ssali:  Once you have a virus you will never get rid of it.  For example herpes zoster, which is always hiding in your cells somewhere, ready to appear if the immune system goes low.  The same with HIV, which if you have it, will come up as soon as you are immunosuppressed.  But Mariandina will bring your immune system so high that it will not surface.

Question:  If all this is true, why is it that your treatment is not more recognised?

Question 2. Let me answer that question for the Professor.  Do you think that the pharmaceutical multinationals would accept something coming from Africa?  We have been accustomed to think that everything the white man does is right; there is no way even in Africa now that people will accept that the problem is one of immune suppression; no one can believe that if you eat well you are unlikely to get HIV.

The National Health Service knows, it has even done research on such treatments, but they will never put you in the spotlight.  It would get in the way of some businesses running here.  I know the medical business well.

Prof. Ssali: The minister of health in Kampala, Uganda, gave a press conference in which he said that he had at last brought salvation to the suffering population of Uganda.

Question: The papers you gave us are talking about the “saga” of Mariandina.  Are you going to give us  some details about this saga?

Prof. Ssali:  What actually happened is that UNAID would provide one million dollars for a pilot project of providing AZT in Uganda.  At that time the ministry of health banned the use of Mariandina and said that Prof. Ssali’s treatment is simply bogus.  They promoted imported protease inhibitors only.  There is at the airport now half a ton of my medicine that would have saved thousands and thousands of people dying of this condition in Uganda.

See this picture of people who had been suffering from AIDS, who went out to demonstrate to ask for the ban to be lifted; the placard says “we want Mariandina”.  They went to parliament to protest.

I have been prevented from seeing the president for five years.  Every time I have an appointment somebody cancels it.  Then when I am out of the country they offer me an appointment, and then say “look, he is too frightened to see the president; he has fled the country!”  So I stayed for five months without moving, and asked them, “now give me that appointment,” and they kept putting it off.

Question:  Is it available in other parts of Africa?

Prof. Ssali:  I have agents in Zimbabwe, in Malawi, they get their supplies by post.

Question: If they are supplied by post, how is it possible for the patients to get a proper consultation?

Prof. Ssali: We can communicate by letter, phone or fax, maybe by e-mail, so that they can give me their symptoms and I can advise them if necessary to get an x-ray or other tests.

And the treatment is certified to be free of toxic effects; even if you overdosed, it would probably even make you feel better!  So there is no risk of being harmed by the treatment, unlike chemical treatments that have serious side-effects.  The benefits of these have to be weighted carefully against the harm that they do at the same time.  Mariandina is made of natural compounds.

Question:  One of your contentions that has caused the most controversy is that AIDS is not caused by HIV,. And another is that when using your treatment, people don’t need to use condoms.

Prof. Ssali:  I was discussing this earlier on this trip with Dr Kramer from Germany, who agrees that the virus has not been observed causing the symptoms.  As for the condom, it has small perforations which are much larger than a virus;  and when it is stretched in use those pores become even larger.

Even the makers of these things tell you they are only 95% effective.  Therefore you cannot go round advising people to use something that 5% of the time is going to let something through that can kill you.  It is like telling people that it is OK to play Russian roulette.

Question:  Do you think that the Ugandan government will come round to your view?

Prof. Ssali:  I am disappointed that my government did not come out to help me in what I have been doing for Uganda, my country and whole of humanity.  Because of this, other countries will see before they do how much it will help people.  It is likely that Mariandina will be made in foreign countries, and that these countries will benefit before my home country.

You will see on the last page of the handout that UNAIDS is giving one million dollars for AZT and related treatments in Uganda.  This is why the minister of health, Dr Crispus Kryonga, had to ban Mariandina.

Question:  How could a minister responsible for the welfare of Uganda choose a foreign product in preference to this?

Prof. Ssali:  The minister is in collaboration with UNAIDS, and the money offered was sufficient inducement to make him forfeit the benefits of Mariandina.  He decided to ban it: and the ban  still stands even though people demonstrated in Kampala to demand a lifting of the ban.

The only option left is for the president of Uganda to intervene on my behalf, because he has been misinformed by officials up to now.  In the past five years, I have sought opportunity to have an audience with him but protocol under the influence of certain officials has denied me that chance to presence my case.

Some of the officials in the Ministry of Health, Naitonal Drug Authority and Uganda AIDS Commission have listened to foreign pharmaceutical merchants from abroad and have believed their recommendations of treating AIDS/HIV.  Among these recommendations, is drinking the patient’s own urine as recommended by a Japanese scientist who visited Uganda AIDS Commission last year.  The use of heroin and marijuana by AIDS sufferers has been welcomed by the same officials because it came from the United States.  AZT and protease inhibitors, despite their toxic side effects, have superseded Mariandina vitamin and mine pills that have been in use for seven years with great benefit to AIDS patients.  The same officials have described these vitamins as more likely to cause toxic effects on end users than the list above.  Their experts have described vitamins and minerals in Mariandina as useless to AIDS victims and that antioxidants could endanger the health of people with AIDS.  This is because Western pharmaceutical giants came in with dollar bills that blinded our own countrymen in authority to the plight of our suffering population.

This is the result of the loss of moral fibre in our present generation which has bred the virus of corruption that is eroding away the ground on which we have always stood and thereby threatening our very survival.

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