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Traditional herbal medicines for malaria

BMJ 2004; 329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1156 (Published 11 November 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:1156

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Royal College of Alternative Medicine (RCAM) Publicly Commends RITAM

Over the years, the Research Initiative for Traditional Antimalarial
Methods (RITAM) has consistently conducted Exceedingly Respectable Pieces
of Useful Scientific Research , on an Extremely Delicate and Highly
Important Topic : Safe, Efficacious and Cost-Effective Alternative
Approaches to Conventional AntiMalarial Therapy.

RCAM therefore has absolutely no problems whatsoever, in graciously
supporting RITAM's Genuine Appeal for Intensive Research Investment into
the Safety and Efficacy of Traditional AntiMalarial Regimens.

RCAM also fundamentally believes that such Massive Funding should
urgently and expediently be channelled directly through RITAM , via the
University of Oxford ; to thoroughly ensure that a Formidable
Interdisciplinary Team of Global Experts in Alternative Medicine are able
to Ethically Contribute to all of the Necessary Studies.

The time is also unequivocally ripe for the University of Oxford to
now boldly endow it's own Professorial Chair in Alternative Medicine
without any further delay : If it cannot afford to do so then it can (at
least) appoint a 'High Command' of Honorary Visiting Professors in
Alternative Medicine as soon as is practically possible.

There are at least 5 Top Professors who I personally know of (in the
UK & Ireland) who can gratefully donate anything up to one session per
week for such Charitable Causes.

Kindly visit www.RoyalCAM.org for more details.

I would additionally like to use this humble opportunity to Publicly
Chide those Shameless Complementary Elements in Exeter ,who spend most of
their precious time claiming that 'Alternative Therapies' do not work.

Permit me to boldly submit that 'Alternative Medicine' is not their
actual area of expertise , and as such they should henceforth solely
concentrate on 'Those Complementary Medicines Which Do Not Work'...rather
than dumbly exposing their Monumental Academic Ignorance for all to
gleefully see and behold.

Royal College of Alternative Medicine (RCAM) will never ever obtusely
sit back and watch , while those without any Revalidated Interdisciplinary
Fellowships in the field of Alternative Medicine , wantonly attempt to
ruthlessly hold the Noble Specialty to Sordid Professional Ransom.

Competing interests:
Professor Joseph Chikelue Obi FRCAM (Dublin) FRIPH (UK) FACAM (USA) also supervises an Interdisciplinary Revalidation Initiative (IRI) for Seasoned Practitioners in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Please kindly visit www.RoyalCAM.org for more details

Competing interests: No competing interests

20 November 2004
Joseph . C . Obi
Provost and Emeritus Chair of Nutritional Immunomodulation
RCAM (Royal College of Alternative Medicine) www.RoyalCAM.org