Connecting the Dots
Unveil Kantanka's mission: revolutionizing Africa's technology, preserving nature's gifts, and pioneering herbal medicine research for global healing and longevity.
Health according to WHO is a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Therefore, one cannot be said to be healthy unless you eat well, drink well and breathe in good quality air from nature.
The pathogenesis, the way disease processes come about is an area we at Kantanka think needs more research to help us understand the signs and medicine behind how A or B happens and how we can, through organic and plant medicine come out with unique formulations that will sync with our biosystem.
We believe in Holistic medicine and agree that it is important to fall on organic orthodox medicine to manage the acute process in emergency situations. Longevity however lies in the bosom of organic plant medicine.
According to WHO, seven (7) out of ten (10), thus 70% of Africans access traditional medicine as their first point of call when they are not well, before they get to the various hospitals. This deepens the fact that, ancient medicine has a role to play in our time.
At Kantanka Herbal Pharmaceuticals and Research Centre, these are our various departments:
- Pharmacology and Toxicology department where we deal with drug safety and toxicity.
- Phytochemistry department where we identify the various bioactive substances and how they react with our body systems.
- Plant development department for consistent production of herbs and plant raw materials for production and research
- Microbiology department for microbial analysis.
- Pharmaceutics department for production
- Herbal pharmaceutics and
- Kantanka Teaching Hospital
- Disease specific projects, that is, for non-communicable diseases
From data and statistics, there is a rise in deaths from heart related conditions between 2000 – 2015 which happens because of what we eat. Respiratory conditions as at 27th December, 2020 was the leading cause of death in Ghana i.e., the pneumonias, the influenzas are; which are part of non-communicable conditions. From top 10 causes of deaths in 2020, you would realise that all these things mentioned from the heart conditions to the kidney to diabetes, hypertension, brain related Alzheimer’s disease are killing us and they all in general have a very big link to what we eat.
Kantanka is here to take us out of this mirage where we have ingestion of an inorganic substrate into an organic body. This causes a GMO-organic mismatch, and that is what we at Kantanka postulate as the basis of several conditions.
Salvestrol has been identified, that God in His own wisdom, placed in cancer-preventing agents which are natural in food substances we eat. These are very high in only organic food substances, so cancers were very low back in the days but they are so high now because we are deviating from mother nature. So, let us go back to mother nature, let’s go back to ancient organic foods and medicine which are rich in salvestrol.
Kantanka is working around the clock on medicines for chronic kidney disease. As it stands now, we have chopped several successes in viral infections. We also have several successes in chronic kidney disease, stage 3B. As a matter of fact, Kantanka is doing a lot of research as far as organic herbal medicine is concerned.
WHO has a target from 2014 – 2023 and this is to ensure:
- That we build the knowledge base of traditional medicine in Africa or as far as traditional medicine is concerned. Kantanka is siding with these goals, working assiduously and training medical doctors to deeply understand plant medicine.
- Quality assurance; how we regulate our practices with good research. Currently, with the human resource capacity we possess, the sky is just our starting point.
- To promote universal health coverage by integrating traditional medicine and complementary medicine services into the health care service delivery and self-health care.
There is an ongoing project to establish the Kantanka Herbal Teaching Hospital, where you have an integration of orthodox medicine and herbal medicine to help us understand and know that certain disease conditions are acute so you treat them the orthodox way. However, longevity and battling communicable conditions depend on plant medicine and organic food.
Over this short period, quite a number of breakthroughs have happened at Kantanka Herbal Pharmaceuticals. From viral conditions to immune modulators that help in management of Hepatitis.
There have been quite a number of cases of hepatitis that have been handled with evidence-based plant medicine research, and we have data to back this.
All these are to help you know that with the herbs, you can never go wrong. There is always a problem when you deviate from nature. There is cost and risk to every program of action, but this is far less to the cost and risk of comfortable inaction.