Beverly Oliver
“My daughter is now running my business. She made all the compounds you all are taking.”
Dr. Sebi in Chapter Seven of Dr. Sebi Speaks of Dembali
Forbes magazine cited a report from Organic Trade Association that says, “52% of organic consumers are millennials, and they eat 52% more vegetables than older generations.” Holistic lifestyle entrepreneurs Chef Ahki, celebrity Chef Lauren Von Der Pool and Xave Bowman can attest to those statistics. They are millennials taking strides in natural food and natural healthcare industries. Only one is the daughter of the late nutritionist and herbal medicine specialist Dr. Sebi. That is Xave [ZAH-VAY] Bowman, founder of Next Generation Herbal Products, and like her father, treats and cures AIDS and other diseases considered incurable.
“I’m still actively doing all the things that my father taught me. I don’t want anyone to feel that because he’s gone now, everything else is,” Xave said in an interview from her home in Georgia.
Next Generation Herbal Products is also based there and sprang up—due to public demand—after her father died in Honduras, Central America, in 2016.
He left behind a mournful and confused group of new and long-time fans, people who bought his herbal compounds and received consultations from his company, but wondered where to turn in his absence. A bit of history is necessary here, a backdrop to events that caused Xave to heed the call to return to healing and relieve a frustrated public.
In 2014, a major change occurred at Dr. Sebi’s company in Los Angeles. He rebuilt and renamed Dr. Sebi’s Office, LLC when managers decided to leave (more about the separation in Xave’s memoir). The result of that restructure is Dr. Sebi’s Cell Food, a new bricks-and-mortar facility and e-commerce website.
News about the change spread like wildfire on social media. By the time the flames died down, two groups had risen: supporters of Dr. Sebi’s Cell Food and those loyal to Dr. Sebi’s Office, LLC. To calm the masses and dismiss rumors his company was distressed and about to close, Dr. Sebi stepped in to referee. He spoke to the public in a YouTube video. It proved effective—for two years. On August 6th, 2016, Dr. Sebi died. By that time, Xave had moved on, to Miami, and had completed a business plan to open a vegan restaurant there. Destiny followed. Xave recalled hanging out with her cousin one fateful afternoon.
“This lady, she comes up to me. She doesn’t know who I am. I’m not wearing anything that would signify Dr. Sebi or healing. I’m not in a place that would signify healing. I wasn’t in a farmer’s market. She comes up to me while I’m standing next to my cousin and she says to me I have diabetes and I need help. What do I eat? How do I fix this? So, my cousin looked at me, and she’s like, ‘I have goose bumps. Feel my arm.’ And I’m telling her no. Shake your head no. We don’t know anything about it. I’m opening a vegan restaurant. Please, I can’t handle this. My cousin is like ‘No, you keep getting signs.”
Xave ended up giving the stranger advice: simple tips about choosing vegetables, salads and water instead of carbohydrates. A week later, the lady contacted Xave and told her she experienced two straight insulin-free days. Occurrences like these didn’t stop. People from out of the blue continued to seek Xave’s consultation, even while she planned her restaurant.
“It’s so beautiful and I want it. I was so excited about doing this in Florida because there hadn’t been a lot of vegan restaurants there,” Xave said, raving about her new venture.
When her cousin noticed a pattern of people coming straight to her with health questions, she encouraged Xave to help them full time, to go beyond answering questions on the fly on the streets of Miami. Xave agreed. She moved to Georgia with her restaurant plans in tow and created Next Generation Herbal Products.
Where the Passion for Herbs Flows
By the time Xave was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, her father, Alfredo Darrington Bowman (Dr. Sebi), had created a budding herbal medicine practice. Xave revealed that as a child—her mother is Patsy Chapman Bowman, also known as Matun— felt little excitement about the family business. (To be continued)
