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Overwhelming response to Cumsee ointment
Jamaicans want the 'miracle' drug
Carl Gilchrist, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Jamaicans have reacted overwhelmingly to the April 3 Sunday Observer story on the new 'miracle' ointment developed from the annatto by Jamaican Leonard Lewis, and have been bombarding the newspaper's offices with calls on how to obtain the product.
Individuals and organisations alike, both in Jamaica and overseas, have telephoned and e-mailed the Observer inquiring about the product. Most persons have expressed a desire to get it to use themselves, while some claim they need it for relatives.
But the item, Cumsee Ointment (Oil of Annatto), is not yet on the market as Lewis is still in distribution talks with the Ministry of Health.
In the interim, Lewis, who is due back in the island early May, will be forced to continue issuing limited samples of the ointment, which has yielded tremendous results since persons began using it about a year ago.
Persons with chronic wounds that have failed to react to regular treatments for up to 10 years are now seeing results, with several persons having their sores healed after using the ointment.
Arthritic patients have also reported that the product has greatly reduced or gotten rid of their pain. There have also been reports of the ointment being used, externally, as an aphrodisiac.
But Jamaicans are only now discovering the variety of uses of the annatto, which for years has been used as food colouring locally and for a variety of medical complaints in other Caribbean and Central American countries.
These include heartburn, stomach-ache, fever, fainting, headache, epilepsy, diabetes and several other ailments. Annatto is said to contain astringent, nutritive, emollient, antibacterial, antioxidant and expectorant qualities.
Overwhelming response to Cumsee ointment
Jamaicans want the 'miracle' drug
Carl Gilchrist, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Jamaicans have reacted overwhelmingly to the April 3 Sunday Observer story on the new 'miracle' ointment developed from the annatto by Jamaican Leonard Lewis, and have been bombarding the newspaper's offices with calls on how to obtain the product.
Individuals and organisations alike, both in Jamaica and overseas, have telephoned and e-mailed the Observer inquiring about the product. Most persons have expressed a desire to get it to use themselves, while some claim they need it for relatives.
But the item, Cumsee Ointment (Oil of Annatto), is not yet on the market as Lewis is still in distribution talks with the Ministry of Health.
In the interim, Lewis, who is due back in the island early May, will be forced to continue issuing limited samples of the ointment, which has yielded tremendous results since persons began using it about a year ago.
Persons with chronic wounds that have failed to react to regular treatments for up to 10 years are now seeing results, with several persons having their sores healed after using the ointment.
Arthritic patients have also reported that the product has greatly reduced or gotten rid of their pain. There have also been reports of the ointment being used, externally, as an aphrodisiac.
But Jamaicans are only now discovering the variety of uses of the annatto, which for years has been used as food colouring locally and for a variety of medical complaints in other Caribbean and Central American countries.
These include heartburn, stomach-ache, fever, fainting, headache, epilepsy, diabetes and several other ailments. Annatto is said to contain astringent, nutritive, emollient, antibacterial, antioxidant and expectorant qualities.
Overwhelming response to Cumsee ointment