‘Regular intake of bitter kola cures glaucoma’
August 31, 2019
5:16 am
A Professor of Ophthalmology, Adebukola Oshintelu, says regular intake of African native nut, bitter kola, helps to treat and manage glaucoma disease.
Oshintelu, who works with Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Lagos.
NAN reports that glaucoma is a condition of increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual loss of sight.
The physician told NAN that through her research, bitter kola had been discovered to be ‘wonderfully efficacious’ for the treatment of glaucoma.
“The African native nut, also known as bitter kola, has antibiotics, antiviral …
