CATUABA (erythroxylum catuaba)

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	CATUABA
	*erythroxylum catuaba*

Name
CATUABA

Scientific Name
erythroxylum catuaba

CATUABA

Etnico Name: Catuaba, Chuchuhuasha, Tattooed, Pau de Reposta, Caramuru, Piratancara

Part of Used: Crust

DESCRIPTION

Properties: Aphrodisiac, CNS Stimulant, Tonic

Catuaba is a tree that grows vigorous in the northern part of Brazil, the Amazon, of For, of Pernambuco, Bahia, Maranhao, and Alagoas. It produces pretty, yellow and orange flowers, and small, the oval, the fruit is not likeible, yellow and dark. Catuaba is known by two botanical names in Brazil, brasiliensis of Juniperus and catuaba of Erythroxylum. Catuaba belongs to the Erythroxylaceae family whose genus main, Erythroxylon, contain several species and the varieties of which they are the cocaine source. Catuaba, nevertheless, does not contain any of the active cocaine alkaloid.

Catuaba has a long history in the medicine of herbal like a afrodisíaco. The Indians of Tupí in Brazil for a long time discovered the first qualities of the plant and on the last centuries, he has composed many songs that praise are the wonders. Indigenous people and local people have used Catuaba by generations and are as mainly afrodisíaca the famous majority Brazilian plant. In the state of Mines there is a saying that goes, "hasta that a father reaches 60, the son he is his, later he is the one of Catuaba." According to Dr Meira Penna, Catuaba "funciona like stimulating of the nervous system, mainly when one deals with with the functional impotence the organs... the masculine genitals is an innocent afrodisíaco, used without any indirect effect ill effect in everything.

In the Brazilian herbolaria medicine of today, Catuaba considers a stimulant of the central nervous system with afrodisíaca properties and a decocción of crust is used for the sexual impotence, the agitation, for nerves, neurastenia, lost memory or of memory and for the sexual weakness. It is considered like an effective afrodisíaca, is used for many types of nervous conditions inclusively insomnia, hipocondría, and the pain related to the central nervous system. In the European botanical medicine, Catuaba considers a afrodisíaco, and stimulating of brain and nerves with a tea of crust used for the sexual weakness, the nervous impotence, weakness and the exhaustion. Facultative of Herbolario and the health in the U.S.A.. they use Catuaba in much the same way; like a tonic for the genitals as well as stimulating a nervous power station of system, for the sexual impotence, the general exhaustion and the fatigue, for the insomnia related to the hypertension, the agitation, and the poor memory. Catuaba is beneficial for men and women like a afrodisíaca, but "está in the area of the masculine impotence that the results have been but effective and is no the evidence of indirect effect still after use on credit largo."

The components found in Catuaba includes a bitter substance, aromatic alkaloids, tanninos, oils and fatty resins, phytosterols, cyclolignans and denominated chemical Brazilian scientists, Ioimbina. The clinical studies in Catuaba have found the results very interesting that they imply his antibacterial and antivirales properties of. A lead clinical study in 1992 indicated significantly that an extract of catuaba was effective in protecting mice of mortal infections of coli of Escherichia and aureus of Staphlococcus, in addition to HIV inhibiting. The study found that the activity of Catuaba ANTI HIV was to be induced, at least partly, via the inhibition of the absorption of HIV to the cells and suggested that extract of Catuaba it has the potential against infecciónes of opportunists in HIV patients.

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