The best medicine may not come from a pill. It may come as a surprise but, before the creation of prescription drugs as we know them today, people looked to nature to treat disease and pain. The Akuamma Seed of Africa is a little known healing plant whose medicinal properties are changing lives across the globe. The seeds of this tree are used to treat a variety of illnesses all across West Africa, particularly Ghana, Nigeria, and the Ivory Coast. Plant based medicines from remote areas such as Africa are beginning to attract attention for their powerful healing properties which show promise in treating conditions including pain, high blood pressure, malaria, and diabetes. If there is a natural herbal medicine that can allow for the treatment of these diseases, then there is great hope for those who are unable to receive modern Western treatment. Alternative therapies have the opportunity to offer benefits that modern Western medicine cannot. Those in Africa have been able to reap the benefits of this herbal medicine, and in the Western world we are just now observing the benefits that they have known for years. Christopher Knowles makes the case for the many benefits of Akuamma Seeds and Eastern alternative medicine in his book "Akuamma Seeds"