Tag: alternative medicine

Natural Healer Dr. Sebi and His African Bio Mineral Balance Therapy Focus of New Book

On November 26, indie author Beverly Oliver released Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi 20 Years Later, a biographical book focused on the culture, observations and healing methods of renowned herbalist Dr. Sebi.

            “November 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of my visit to Honduras, Central America, to interview Dr. Sebi, a man I feel is one of the greatest natural healers we’ve ever known. Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi 20 Years Later is a book that commemorates that journey and offers an in-depth view of Dr. Sebi’s method of treating diseases like leukemia, sickle cell anemia and diabetes,” says Oliver.

            Dr. Sebi, who died at age 82 in August 2016, called his method of healing the African Bio Mineral Balance Therapy, a natural healing process he used for more than 40 years, beginning with his own life, and on clients of all races. Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi 20 Years Later keeps front of mind that practice and Dr. Sebi’s quest to share his knowledge of highly effective herbal medicine (a common term used to describe natural plant-based, chemical-less health treatments).

            About the book, Reedsy Discovery book interviewer Kennedy Odindo writes, “For readers unaware of Dr. Sebi or aware but only a little, this book is indeed an eye-opener. With regards to what we eat and how best to protect ourselves against disease, he doesn’t fall short of advice and anecdotes that help reinforce his vision. There’s a lot to admire and borrow from this simple man; a lot of inspiration to draw from this book.” The paperback book is available at Barnes & Noble and other retailers. The ebook is available directly through the author’s website, https://www.sevendaysinushavillage.org/shop

Black People and Sickle Cell Anemia, White People and Leukemia, Healing Found in Updated Memoir

“People come to me with leukemia. They say, ‘Dr. Sebi, the doctor said that my child will die with leukemia. What can you offer that the physician did not offer?’  I tell them that all I have to offer is a nutritional approach to disease. We begin by cleansing away the toxins that are invading the whole biology.”

—Dr. Sebi, November 2005

There’s more about how Dr. Sebi cures diseases considered incurable in this celebration of my interview with him in La Ceiba, Honduras, twenty years ago and this new edition of Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi. In the new chapter, “Dr. Sebi Shared More That Week in Honduras: His Methodology,” you’ll read, among other things, why sickle cell anemia, primarily found in Black people, is essentially leukemia and anemia in other races. Iron deficiency is the culprit.

The Prologue and end of the book have changed, with a full circle tribute to Dr. Sebi by the person who helped launch his career in the U.S., Adio Kuumba Akil. She met him for the first time at the Garden Holistic Institute in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, while learning natural healing and food therapy.

Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi: 20 Years Later continues to shine a light on Dr. Sebi’s natural healing methodology, his raison d’être, his thinking-outside-the-box prescription for optimal health—at any age. It also celebrates his more than forty-year quest to share with the world alternative medicine that healed him (widely known as well as unfamiliar plants) and that same method he used to heal others.

Paperback Book Available November 2025.

Ask for it at your favorite bookstore. IngramSpark is the distributor.

www.sevendaysinushavillage.org

An Innovation in Alkaline Herbal Medicine

How Do We Reverse Disease and Heal Our Electric Body?

The answer? The African Bio Mineral Balance. Until his autobiography is published, Dr. Sebi’s best representation in publication, besides Sojourn to Honduras Sojourn to Healing (yes, we’re a bit biased here), is Aqiyl Aniys’s book Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body. In 118 pages, Aqiyl explains in simple but effective words the African Bio Mineral Balance, a natural healing method Dr. Sebi created to reverse disease. Aqiyl accurately writes that the African Bio Mineral Balance is a treatment for all races because “the African genome has been determined to be the foundational genome of all Homo sapiens or modern people. The healthy expression of the African genome present in all people is achieved in a specific way . . . and a good way to better understand this process is to better understand how an ecosystem works.”

Alkaline Herbal Medicine has six chapters about herbs and food that readers will find easy to understand and apply to their lives to prevent disease and to eliminate disease already present in the body. There’s even a chapter on how to prepare the herbs Dr. Sebi used to treat disease for more than 40 years. A treasure trove of natural health information.

So far, I found only one instance where I disagree with the book. In Chapter 2, page 25, it says Grade B maple syrup has been removed from Dr. Sebi’s nutrition guide because “Some manufacturers of maple syrup and sugar often use formaldehyde to keep the hole open in the maple tree to extract sap.” Actually, it’s illegal — and has been since the 1980s — to use formaldehyde to keep the tap holes open in maple trees. Maple syrup production receives approval and organic certification when it is guaranteed and proven formaldehyde is not present in maple trees. So, maple products, especially organic maple products, are healthy natural foods to eat.

Other than that one disagreement, I recommend reading Alkaline Herbal Medicine because it’s one of the best ways to know how and why herbalist Dr. Sebi heals people. Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body is available at Amazon.com. Sojourn to Honduras Sojourn to Healing is also available at Amazon.com.

Dr. Sebi’s legacy of teaching an alkaline approach to food and health continues in these books, and you’ll find one of the best paths to reverse disease and heal our electric body is found within their pages. An open mind while reading them and even a moderate change in diet will help.

https://www.sojourntohonduras.com/about