Dr. Sebi Alfredo Darrington Bowman (26 November 1933 – 6 August 2016), [1] better known as Dr. Sebi , [5] was a Honduran vegetarian herbalist , [6] healer, pathologist , biochemist , and naturalist of holistic medicine [7] [1] who was litigated in 1988 in the New York City Supreme Court and faced civil and criminal charges for practicing medicine without a license . [8] Although not a licensed physician, witnesses had testified that their health was improved as a result of USHA's dietary programs; after the prosecution failed to convince the jury that Bowman did in fact make a medical diagnosis, Bowman was later found not guilty in the associated criminal trial. [8] Bowman and the USHA were however successfully sued by the New York attorney general's consumer fraud section, and were prevented from making any therapeutic claims regarding any of their products. [9] Bowman supposedly based his concepts on an Alkaline diet that would nurture the cells o