by Mell P
Years after Dr. Sebi’s death, his daughter found the book he never got to finish. With editor Jeff Coby, his family has brought “The Cure: The Official Autobiography of Dr. Sebi” to readers, in his own words.
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The Forgotten Manuscript
After her father died in 2016, Saama Bowman kept returning to his house in Honduras. She would lay on his bed and simply be still.
“It was something spiritual, because my father and I we were really close,” she says. “I just went and laid down on his bed and kind of meditated.”
One day she began sorting through a few of his things. Among them was a manuscript. Her father was Alfredo Darrington Bowman, known around the world as Dr. Sebi, who was born in Honduras. He had worked on the book since about 2005, in between lectures and travel. By 2015 he was close to publishing it. Then, in Saama’s words, “he died before it could come out”.
In the months of mourning that followed, the family was busy holding the business together. Nobody had time to think about a book. The moment on the bed changed that.
“We have to finish this mission. What he wanted was to spread the word out. He wanted to publish his book.”
The Journey to the Page
Getting from the found manuscript to a finished book took “two years, almost going on three,” Saama says. The delay came from her father’s own voice. “My dad was a straight-up person,” she says. “He would talk about a lot of things that other people would consider compromising.”
The family wanted the book to stay mostly in his words, but realized that they needed an editor, but it wasn’t just about getting a regular editor, Saama says.
They chose someone who was close the the Bowman family. The Coby family had been close to the Bowmans for years, and son, Jeff Coby fit the bill. A former professional basketball player turned author, speaker and publisher. His company, 40a3 Studios, led the book to publication.
Saama says, “He was really into it. He had the passion for it.”
Coby had already chronicled his own journey in his 2023 memoir, A Mindful Journey, a powerful account of resilience and transformation. His connection to Usha Village was also deeply personal. Following a fateful Uber accident that left him injured and sidelined from basketball for a time, Coby experienced the healing offered at the village firsthand.
Coby himself calls the project “a firsthand approach of really getting to know the man behind the legend.”
The Man Behind the Legend
Dr. Sebi’s knowledge of plants began at home. He was raised partly by his great-grandmother, who already worked with herbs. “My background on my dad’s side, they’re from the Caribbean,” Saama says. “The majority of us, we believe a lot in plants and certain healing herbs.”
Dr. Sebi’s grandfather was originally from Haiti, so the natural remedy belief aligns.
His turn toward herbalism came later. Before that, he worked as a seaman. In his early thirties he became ill with high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, which is told in the book.
On his travels he met an herbalist in Mexico who, Saama says, shared his first name. That man treated him with herbs. From then on, Dr. Sebi devoted himself to herbal research around the world.
Usha Village, Where It All Began
Saama spoke from the office at Usha Village in Honduras, where she was born. Her father opened it in 1985 as an herbal research institute. It was his first business and, she says, his dream: a place where people could come to heal. Guests receive what the family calls an intracellular cleanse. It uses Dr. Sebi’s herbal compounds and the thermal waters of a river behind the facility.
That river is why he chose the site. Saama says the water is volcanic and alkaline, with a pH of at least 9.8, and rich in minerals. A sauna on the grounds uses its steam along with herbs.
You don’t have to be ill to visit. For the curious, the village offers a seven-day detox package. “It works wonders,” Saama says. Most of the staff worked alongside her father, and the family is keeping things “just like he left it.”
The Cure
Within The Cure, readers will also find some of his healing techniques. The book goes beyond herbs and the alkaline diet he is known for, into spirituality and “connecting with your mind, body and your soul.”
Why have his ideas drawn so much controversy?
Saama sees it as a matter of upbringing. Her family grew up with this way of living, believing in natural remedies. Most people, she says, were raised from kindergarten on Western medicine and on foods that her father’s methods omit.
There is a wider record, too. Dr. Sebi had no medical degree. He was self-taught and helped others heal from their ailments through what he learned studying for years.
The Cure: The Official Autobiography of Dr. Sebi came out in February 2026 and runs 162 pages. It is currently available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble, with more outlets on the way. A Spanish edition is also coming.
The response thus far has been “very positive.” Some readers are meeting her father’s legacy for the first time through these pages. Ten years after his death, Dr. Sebi’s unfinished book is finally out in the world, perhaps by divine order because his daughter dared to lay down on his bed.
