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Hi Twitter,
I am a Pharmacist but I am also involved in Preventive Healthcare so I process agro produce to products that promote and maintain health and well-being. I do this under Fonz Naturals and your patronage is the push we need.
Below are our products
Pls RT
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From 2017 to 2022, I produced coconut oil using these graters and I can confidently tell you the work is hard.
I bought blenders, 2 or 3 of them but I fell back to using graters. The blenders interfered with fermentation and sometimes the oil would not separate. I remember
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I used to make Groundnut oil, would buy Groundnut in bags and dry in an oven, peel and put it in an oil press to squeeze out the oil. When the oil clarified, I would package for sale. There was nothing added, just pure Groundnut/Peanut oil.
I stopped producing cos People said it
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Hello Sir
@bosuntijani
I am a Pharmacist who produces pure Coconut oil, Banana flour, Date syrup and other Organic foods and cosmetic products. We process these from locally grown agro produce. Your support will go a long way in boosting our visibility and growth here.
From 2017 to 2022, I produced coconut oil using these graters and I can confidently tell you the work is hard.
I bought blenders, 2 or 3 of them but I fell back to using graters. The blenders interfered with fermentation and sometimes the oil would not separate. I remember
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This is Dates powder!!!
Dates are one of the hardest things to grind because they easily attract water from the air and become soft. The easy way out is to grind it immediately one purchases the dried Dates from the market
But..
The dried Dates will definitely have dust that
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So what's the difference between hot and cold pressed Coconut oil?
Well, it's mainly in the method of extraction:
For cold pressed the oil is gotten by fermenting the coconut milk gotten after grinding the coconuts. The milk is allowed to stand for 18 to 48 hours. As it stands,
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My journey through life is sometimes dictated by my challenges. I became a Mom and soon found out my son had an allergy to the proteins in Cows milk. That means any product that has Cows milk in it gave him issues-hair loss, skin rash, runny stools. Guess what?
Most baby foods
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of support.
Thank you for graciously supporting me every step of the way.
We have unbranded Coconut oil for resellers at 11000 per litre
Quality is top notch, no adulteration, no mix mix, Freshly produced.
07069029469
Uyo
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Not Pharmacy students.
When you've drawn structures of vincristine and vinblastine and studied shikimic acid pathway. They are Pharmacy students and proud. If e easy, run am🤣
No offense really but I’ve observed a good number of students in the health line claim “medical student” even when they’re not studying medicine/dentistry.
Your course is as good as MBBS, you’re a crucial part of the system.
Own your profession, be proud of it fgs!
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I think one of the highlights of being a Pharmacist is people thinking you should be able to identify any tablet. Sometimes they even call you on the phone- pharm the tablet is pink and round. I know I am a Pharmacist but I don't swallow pills for a living.
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Meet African Pear Oil/butter
I extracted it from our local pears.
All over the world, Avocado oil is popular for being a very healthy cooking oil despite it being so expensive. Now, this pear oil has almost identical properties and benefits to Avocado oil. If it is exploited, we
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Was too expensive compared to the cooking oils in the market. I explained it was that way cos the raw material- Groundnuts wasn't that cheap and I couldn't compromise by mixing the oil with cheaper cooking oils.
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grating machine but the graters still have some advantage, you get more oil yield cos it grates the nuts to the tiniest bits.
So you see,
The journey has been long, hard, full of tears and rewarding too.
This picture reminds me of Persistence, of Drive, Tenacity, of the Power
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@UncleZubs
This experience nails exactly our people's approach to health care. They are more confident in their shared experience. We need to do health education from that perspective, it will take years to see a change but it can be done.
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Another year has been added to my years today.
Grateful!!!
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How an accident led me to producing Dates powder...
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Pharmacists are always comparing risks to benefits. That's why many of us rather sleep than take paracetamol for headache 😴.
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In 2015 when I graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, I and my colleagues had shouted never again. How wrong we were🤣🤣🤣. Being a competent Pharmacist means that learning never ends.
It's 2023 and I am back to pick up my Masters education from where I left it in 2021😃
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When I made this tweet, I just thought to share my journey of building a business from scratch with funds from my salary. I never expected the massive engagements and patronage that followed. Thank you to all who bought our products from this tweet. You blew my mind.
From 2017 to 2022, I produced coconut oil using these graters and I can confidently tell you the work is hard.
I bought blenders, 2 or 3 of them but I fell back to using graters. The blenders interfered with fermentation and sometimes the oil would not separate. I remember
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I learnt the basics of making Date syrup from the internet. A number of trips to You Tube prepped me up. I remember I went to Nasarawa in Uyo, got some Dates and made our first batch of Date syrup.
But....
🚫The tutorial videos on You Tube weren't enough
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So, we always fell back to using these graters to grate 20 to 30 coconuts per day to produce cold pressed Coconut oil.
Grating coconuts with these graters is grueling, hard work, your back will ache, your hands would be wounded, your nails will look ragged.
Today I have a
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Got married last week to my best friend.
I can now say that ceremonies can come with a huge amount of stress but we scaled through.
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This is my husband David posing for a picture with the Coconut oil I make shortly before delivering it to a client.
Frame 2 is when he was eating our low carb swallow so he can tell potential clients the whole experience of having Coconut fufu in your house.
Plz send heartwarming stories of straight male partners supporting your creative endeavors. Hungry for a story that isn't "I achieved unprecedented professional success and my relationship was never the same."
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a blender packed up 2 weeks after purchase cos we were blending 30 nuts per day with it.
I tried grinding with commercial machines but it didn't work out so well too. I would make coconut oil and it would come out with a yellow color because of the things they ground the machine
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Hubby brought the client, hubby is the one delivering the oil to the client.
She bought 5L of coconut oil to resell in Calabar.
Thank God some of us married men that run errands for us without fuss.
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I was inducted as a Pharmacist in 2015, I have worked and earned pay from that time onwards. This year, I took everything I have saved away to invest in acquiring machines for Fonz Naturals.
As an expert in drugs, I have seen that food and cosmetics relate strongly to the well
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There was a time I was producing coconut oil with this
2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 and part of 2022.
I got blenders but I always fell back to these graters cos results were varied
Today I have a grating machine but there's still something the grater can do better than the machine.
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Green Banana Flour a.k.a Unripe Banana Flour
One of the most underrated but healthy flours out here.
It is rich in fibre
It doesn't spike up blood glucose
It helps one lose and control weight
It relieves constipation
It is versatile- you can make different kinds of food
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Pharmacists need to band together and push each other in this emigration matter. There's nothing more left to the younger folks here.
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One thing I did after repeating 100L in Pharmacy was never asking my seniors how their class was. I never asked if Pharmacognosy was tough or how many people passed Pharmacotherapy. I chose not to allow other people's fears dictate my experience.
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I was watching Channels TV with hubby yesterday and this show comes on. It featured a young man making green Banana flour in Uganda. I almost screamed...this is similar to what I do. He's operating at a larger scale though.
I will keep grinding, until the world hears me.
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I guess non Pharmacists don't understand how broad Pharmacy is.
The world of drugs will get you to know about microbiology, nutrition, economics, pathology, cosmetics and even a small aspect of engineering.
That's why we can do well in a variety of roles aside dispensing drugs.
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If Nigeria could support the Pharmaceutical world to reach 50% of its potential, trust me many Pharmacists would have little time to venture into other things.
Some would be in R and D, regulation, etc.
Pharmacy is as wide as the ocean.
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This year I discovered that Lemongrass and Ginger when infused in water works great for my allergic cough.
Pharmacognosy would be proud 😀
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ME!
Motherhood turned out quite different from all that I thought of in my head.
I remember when it dawned on me that I couldn't feed my baby conventional canned baby foods because most contained milk and my boy was sensitive to proteins in Cow's milk.
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Date syrup is basically honey from Dates. The syrup is made by grinding and juicing Date palm fruits. The resultant juice is then cooked until most of the water evaporates leaving behind a syrupy extract which contains the natural sugars from the Dates.
It's a natural sweetener
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Why does Coconut oil have different colors?
This thread answers the question
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Welcome to 2024.
All thanks be to God for a successful transition to the new year. We can write down plans, list ambitions and goals but all will be futile without a healthy body to carry them out and a sane mind to actualize them. So my ernest, heartfelt prayer for you this
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I survived a bathroom fall with this pregnancy. I remember trying to protect my belly as I was going down to the floor. Grateful for the victories I have enjoyed in this life.
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Young man came to meet me once with his GF. Told a sad story about how he desperately needed tramadol. He added that the idiot he met at the last Pharmacy refused to sell. At that moment, I knew I would be the next Idiot when he will tell his story at the next Pharmacy
Your story is touching but i won’t sell pentazocine to you if you don’t give me a valid prescription.
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Since we are talking about coursework let me say the one for Pharmacy oscillates between 12 and 15 per semester.
You see the one credit courses, most of them come with the weight that can take your breath away.
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@C_Ceeeee
Yeah. Other things contributed as well. Was trying to register with Nafdac and at some point, I ran out of funds to continue
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Biopsy result came out and we beat cancer!!!!!!!
2 years ago I didn't know how we would pull through but we did it!!!!
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Blessed are the work of my hands, they shall be fruitful and multiply and yield a bountiful harvest.
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A group for pharmacists seeking scholarships for grad school.
We drop opportunities, act as accountability partners for each other, review and seek out mentors from amongst us.
Anyone in?
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Anytime I pass a Catharanthus roseus plant, I remember I refused to practice how to draw the structure of vincristine and vinblastine for cognosy exams and that was the first question I saw on my sheet in the exam hall. 9 years later, I am still traumatised
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One time like that I met with a Pharmacist who wanted a Pharmacist for her second branch. she needed me to work 8a.m to 8p.m Mondays to Saturdays.
Pay nko? 80k
I runnnnn
Anytime she sees me in PSN meeting, she will point at me and tell people "this girl refused to work for me.
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In this video, I illustrate the 2 popular methods of making Coconut oil.
For cold pressed, the coconut milk is allowed to separate into an oil water and curd layer and the oil layer is collected and filtered.
For hot pressed, the coconut milk is cooked until all water
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In Pharmaceutics we hate emulsion instability- cracking, flocculation and creaming. In coconut oil making, I look forward to the instability of the coconut milk emulsion, the cracking enables us get cold pressed oil. Isn't life such an irony?
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My collection of the fine people in this
#BeLikeNgoziChallenge
#NoiGoesToWTO
#AnkaraArmy
You people are just so fine❣❣❣
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This year I started an equipment sourcing service for entrepreneurs. I started with the equipments I have worked with and known their do's and don'ts , their capacities and limitations.
You see, by experience I have come to learn that an equipment may not meet all your
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No more free consultations in 2021, you didn't pay my fees in Pharmacy school. You are not paying my annual PSN dues too.
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Won't keep silent anymore. In sm private hospitals and patent medicine stores, patient is given drugs whose name they don't know. No drug name on the envelopes. Just dosage and dosing frequency.
One thing is common with these scenarios : ABSENCE OF A PHARMACIST!
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In Pharmacy school U study Pharmacognosy amongst other things.
Sitting in those classes made me realise Local Plants is a goldmine that Nigeria leaves untapped!
Last yr Fonz Naturals was born- I hope to tap into this mine and draw more attention to developing our own medicines!
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An Intern was to take my blood sample. I could see she was nervous and all. Afterwards she thanked me for not shouting and I told her I was an Intern years ago and I vividly remember the emotions and everything that came with it.
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October 5th 2015, I was inducted into the Pharmacy Profession!!!
Its been 5 years, 5 years of no regrets!
Happy anniversary to myself,
@ememusoroh
@getencored
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We made it!!!
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There is no perfect cure for stretch marks but if you are patient, you can greatly diminish stretch marks with Turmeric oil.
We use fresh Turmeric for infusing to get this potent Turmeric oil.
You can add it into body lotions and use it at night. Can also be used as just oil.
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Today a one year old would have been given Nitrofurantoin and Ciprofloxacin by his mom.
A pharmacist intervened.
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It is a healthier sweetener to refined sugar. You can add it to pap, cereals, tea and baked foods.
Available in
200g for N2000
500g for N4500
1kg for N10 000
Uyo
Nigeria
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My Dad is in his 70s but he still actively farms. He grew these specie of Turmeric recently and I want to transform it to powder to elongate the shelf life. Have you seen this kind of Turmeric before?
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Pharmacists, do you still remember how to use this thing😄?
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Told my husband I have to calculate how much electricity our swing grinder uses per grinding cycle. He didn't believe I could as he said there are many things involved. I agree but I calculate doses of drugs for a living so let me try.
The trial👇
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If levofloxacin can do the work that cipro can do, levo wins
If tinidazole or secnidazole can do the job of metronidazole, they win.
If azithromycin can unseat erythromycin, I choose it.
One of the highlight of this Pharmacy career is doing substitutions that reduce pill burden.
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One day I will wake up as the owner of a large food processing factory. One day!!!
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When we make Dates powder, we make it with the consciousness that someone will consume it somewhere with the hope that it is a better alternative to refined sugar.
This propels us to go extra with it's processing. First, we wash the fruits after purchase even though many go
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I ventured into selling shea butter after I bought mago mago shea butter.
It was hard as a rock, to get it to melt into my skin, I would have to melt it on fire. That thing was so plastic. After that ordeal, I came to sell shea butter by Chance.
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It's World Pharmacists Day People!!!!!
There hasn't been any day I look back and regret being a Pharmacist.
Not one day!
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Avocado oil from Avocado Pear.
I call it crude cos we just dry Avocados and extract the oil. No refining afterwards. Extracting Avocado oil locally is quite difficult cos of the mushy nature of the fruit in which the oil is embedded. Its possible for me cos I extract it with
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2017 I was rounding up my internship at UUTH and doing a locum job at a community Pharmacy. I took up making Coconut oil. Then I made the oil by blending coconuts with the blender we used at home. My first customers were fellow interns and Senior Pharmacists in the hospital.
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I have a feedback for GSK on their ampiclox drops. I really hope they would see this tweet. I have dispensed the medication to patients over the years. This year I became a mum and got to administer the drug on my child. Here's what I found:
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NO COMMUNITY PHARMACY SLANDER WILL BE ALLOWED!!!
My colleagues work too hard to tolerate that nonsense.
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I took this pic last night.
In pharmacy school I would have scored Zero if I dared to make this.
These were given to a relative for her to give to her twin girls in a PHC.
Mom and I tried guessing to identify the drugs.
I told her to discard them.
So many things to say
So many!
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COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS!!!!
Prepare to explain to numerous patients that Amlodipine hasn't been proven to cause cancer. It might be necessary to obtain the link and read out to each patient the exact information about the recall.
YOUR WORKLOAD JUST INCREASED!
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The year was 2018 and I was going to bed so late cos I was extracting oil from 50 to 60 Avocados my hands. It was a long tedious process that came with lots of backache but there were demands for the oil so I kept going. I stumbled on this video on YouTube showing this machine
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See this Banana flour?
I make it from Bananas grown here. Many times when it is in season, lots of Bananas rot and get wasted.
This Banana flour can be used for baby food, baking and lots more
See, I’m begging you people. We need a thriving manufacturing industry in this country. Without that we’re not going anywhere.
Even all the tech we’re doing, needs adoption in a proper manufacturing industry. We even have to meet local demand and reduce our dependence on
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Remembered when we took the pre wedding shots, the photographer asked where is your ring?
I was like ring? Take this thing joor, I leave coconut milk wey don dey ferment come here. No waste my time🤣
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Some Nigerian Hospitals employ Pharmacy Technicians and don't employ Pharmacists. They know a Pharmacy Technician is not equivalent to a Pharmacist, the competence of a Pharmacy Technician is limited but they want to cut costs. The Patient ends up suffering for their greed.
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@YourBabysDoctor
My boy is almost 2, everytime I try to get him to sit on a pooh, he carries the thing on his head..
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Most baby foods have Cows milk in them. I remember the pediatrician being so concerned about stunted growth with children that have these issues.
I dusted myself, consulted a nutritionist and started making dairy free baby foods for him in my Kitchen. He is 2 now and growing well
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If you have vitamin C syrup or drops at home for your kids and it's opened beyond 3 months, it may be time to buy a new one.
You see Vitamin C is prone to photo oxidation and opening and opening it again increases tha chance of it being oxidised.
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Had this friend that we looked out for each other. She would tell me when a guy I liked came home with a girl and would yab me silly. I took it in good stride. She eventually dated an older man and one day I saw him discharging another babe at 5.a.m and I told her. She went to
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A Pharmacist is a person.
A Pharmacy is a place.
A Pharmacist is not the synonym of Pharmacy.
Please be guided.
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This is Green Banana Flour a.k.a Unripe Banana Flour!!!
Mostly underrated but full of nutrition for life.
It is rich in fibre
It doesn't spike up blood glucose
It helps one lose and control weight
It relieves constipation
It is versatile- you can make different kinds of food
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How is Cold pressed Coconut oil made?
Well...I made a video
Here is how it is made
Part 1👇
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@Samuelenechukwu
No. Instead of formula, I breastfed for a year plus. When he started eating solids, I prepared a variety of foods for him that were milk free. Like I would make pap with tigernut milk and add sesame seeds. A lot of our meals can also serve as baby food.
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There's a course in the Pharmacy degree program that is called Pharmacognosy and Natural medicine. That course trains your mind as a Pharmacist not to discard the remedies and wisdom of elders as mere talk. Some remedies are potent, they just don't know how to explain why it
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License renewal ⬆️
Cost of registering premises⬆️
Cost of hiring a Pharmacist ⬆️
Cost of medicines ⬆️
Number of Agbo drinkers⬆️
Number of those going to quacks⬆️
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When we extract coconut milk, the milk is an emulsion of oil, milk solids and water. To get coconut oil out, you need the emulsion to Crack. Cracking releases the oil .
So cold pressed Coconut oil is a product of the love affair between microbiology and Pharmaceutics😃
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As a Pharmacist, I get anxious when a patient has to take more than 4 meds at a time. Drug interactions, ADR , Adherence are issues that make my heart beat faster.
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You cannot go through this school and remain the same.
Something must change.
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Towards the end of December, while heavily pregnant , We shipped so many bottles of pure Coconut oil, Date syrup, Dates powder, Peanut oil to people all over Nigeria. This is to say a big Thank you to Nigerians who came through for us.
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Should Pharmacognosy be scrapped?
My answer is no.
The curriculum needs to be reviewed and tailored to our current realities.
Nigeria is a country with a rich traditional medicine heritage that has been barely scratched. Look at China doing great things with herbal medicines.
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