CHIDAWA THE MEDICINEGRANDMA

    Before even the nineteenth centuary, there lived an old grandma who was known as chidawa. i heard that in those days, there was a certain disease which seemed to have disturbed very many people in the area. But chidawa was a clever woman. She knew the herbs which could cure the disease. Those herbs were green in colour but when sundried well, until it get rid of all the chlorophile it was whitish in coloir. The herb was only there during the rainy season.
    So people used to come to her for cureence.Because the people were not being treated freely, chidawa was so rich that even you could not believe that she was just a grandma.
     One season came where by thre was no rain. chidawa still had customers.Nobody knew the herbs she started using then.In addition to this, she never sundried the herbs she used to . Those  people didn't care for the main wasnting was to be cured.Then the people realised that the herbs were not working.Nabuto one of the people realised that his wound was just growing big and big.But one day when a certain boy was sent to see of chidawa was around, the boy found her red hunded scraching white cassava; The boy ran to the village and made sure that everybody knew the fact.

Location: SONDU/CHABERA, KISUMU, kenya