Herbalist Cynthia Dennie is curing people naturally
“I f doctor can’t help you, we can help you.” These are the words of 51-year-old Cynthia Dennie, known to many as ‘Princess’, the herbalist who operates from the Cross Roads Market in St Andrew.
Raised in Bowden Hill district in Stony Hill, St Andrew, Dennie always knew this was where her life would lead. After several failed business ventures that she pursued to try and distance herself from the family business, Dennie knew this was her calling. “Chu me did so young, I did want to do something nicer,” she said.
“Each time I do a different thing fi just come out a this thing [the herbal business], it mash up. So me affi just come back to this, and a it last the longest.”
Dennie, who has been a herbalist for the past 25 years, claims that her products have given sight to the blind; cured cancer, asthma and diabetes; healed sores and impotency; and made women fertile again.
“We sell medicines for blocked tubes, cysts, fibroids. For any kind a pain, any kind of headache, even sore, we can better it — well it up,” she said.
Though Dennie is often overwhelmed by the severity of some of the illnesses she sees, she said that the most satisfying part of her job is seeing the children who she has had a hand in allowing to have a life.
“The children who born from these medicines, where them parents come and clean out and get pregnant. Mi can’t count the children dem. From out here and overseas. Can’t count the children.”
“Mi nah do this thing for money. If I was, I woulda have 10 or 20 shops in Jamaica and all over the world,” Dennie said. Dennie told THE WEEKEND STAR that her biggest fear is that fraudsters may use her name and create products that harm people.
“I don’t want anybody to kill anybody and then my name is there,” she said. “Everybody know seh a right here so me deh inah Cross Roads Market. If you don’t see the label say located in Cross Roads Market, then [it’s not me].” Dennie says she hopes to carry on the legacy so that her children can follow in her footsteps, just as she followed in her mother’s.