It has never been that high since I took a herbal concoction," the 79-year-old asserts, before going into the house to fetch the documents to confirm his history of diabetes.

"His stage and type of diabetes was easy to handle because it was about lifestyle," says Ssenfuka continuing, "I have found this concoction to work faster on such conditions but it also depends on how someone's body responds to medicine.

He stopped taking the concoction and for the last three and a half years, he has been checking his sugar levels but they remain within the safe range between 3.5 and 5.7.

Ssenfuka says last year , a group of five professional researchers in Uganda and the US passed his concoction through an animal test to be able to cure diabetes and cancer.

A report released by Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI) last year evaluated the antidiabetic properties of the herbal concoction (SD2018) in alloxan - induced diabetic animal model.