MUIRA PUAMA (ptychopetalum olacoides)

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	MUIRA PUAMA
	*ptychopetalum olacoides*

Name
MUIRA PUAMA

Scientific Name
ptychopetalum olacoides

MUIRA PUAMA

The family:Olacaceae

The common Names: Muira Puama, Marapuama, Marapama, Wood of Power, Potenzholz

The parts Used: Crust and Root

Puama de Muira, also "madera call of power, " it is a shrub or small tree up to 5 feet of height and is native to the Brazilian Amazon and other parts of northern Brazil. The small white flowers have a similar pungent perfume to jazmín. Historically, all parts of the plants have been used medicinally, but the crust and the roots are the primary parts of the used plant. It has length was used in the Amazon by natives for several intentions and found his way in the medicine of herbolaria in the South America and Europe in 1920's. The indigenous tribes in the use of Brazil the roots and bark internally taken like a tea to treat the sexual weakness and impotence, the problems neuromusculares, the reumatismo, influenza, asthenia cardiac, gastrointestinal asthenia and to prevent stress. It is also used externally in baths and massages to treat the paralysis and beriberi.

Puma de Muira has a long history in the medicine of herbal like a afrodisíaca, a tonic for the nervous system a antirheumatic and disorders of gastrointestinal. In 1925, a farmacológico study was published in puama of muira that indicated effectiveness to deal with the disorders the nervous system and sexual impotence that indicated that "el effect of the permanent one takes place in ataxia of locomotive, neuralgias of the long position, the chronic reumatismo, and the paralysis parcial." In 1930, Penna wrote about puama of Muira in its book and mentioned, physiological and therapeutic experiments lead in France by Dr Rebourgeon who confirmed the gastric effectiveness of the plant for "problemas and asthenia and circulatory impotence of the organs genitales." Two species of fence related of Ptychopetalum was used interchangeably when it got to be popular in 1920's and 30's - P. olacoides and P. uncinatum and one third species, ovata of Liriosma, (that a common name of Muira Puama also had) was also used. The early European explorers noticed the indigenous uses and the qualities of afrodisíaco of puama of muira and brought supports Europe, where he has gotten it to be the part of the medicine of herbal of England. Because of the long history of the use of puama of Muira in England, he still lists himself in the Herbal English Pharmacopoeia, a source noticed in the medicine of herbal of the English Association of the Medicine of Herbal, where it is Recommended for the treatment of disentería and the impotence. He has been in the Brazilian Pharmacopeia since 1950's.

Puama de Muira around is used the botany medicine world. In Brazil and the South American medicine of herbal, is used a tonic of neuromuscular, for the asthenia, the paralysis, the chronic reumatismo, sexual impotence, influenza, for ataxia, and for the central nervous disorders of system In Europe, they are used to treat impotence, menstrual sterility, neurastenia, uproars of and disentería. It has been winning in the popularity in the United States where herbarios and facultative to the care of the health they use puama of muira for the impotence, the PMS and cramps menstrual, neurastenia and central nervous disorders of system. The benefits to deal with impotence with puama muira have studied recently in two human tests that showed that puama of Muira was provén of being effective in improving libido and disfunción of eréctil that treat. In a study lead in Paris, France, into 262 masculine lack to experience of patients of sexual desire and the incapacity to reach or to maintain an erection, 62% of the patients with the loss of libido informed that the extract into puama into muira "tuvo an effect dinámico" in 51% of patients.

The consumers must be found out nevertheless that to obtain the beneficial effects of the plant, the appropriate methods of the preparation are due to use. The active components found in the natural crust thought to be responsible for the effect of Puama de Muira are not soluble of water nor are they were disturbed in the digestive process. Therefore to take a crust from the ground or dust by root in a capsule or the tablet they will not be very effective. Longer the high heat for at least 20 minutes or in the alcohol in necessary when dissolving and extracts oils, terpenes, the volatile and essential rubbers and resins found in the crust and the root that have been joined to the Puama de Muira the beneficial effects.

References

Penna, M. 1930. Notes On Brasileriras Plants. Written Araujo & company, Rio de Janeiro, 1930 pp 258.

Anselmino, Elisabeth, 1933, "las Ancestral sources of puama of muira." Ach. Pharm. 271, 296-314

Mowrey, Daniel B. Ph. D., 1993. Las Terapias de Herbal Tonic, Publicar de Keats, S.A..

Herbal English Pharmacopoeia, 1983. The English Association of the Medicine of Herbal, Western York, England, págs. 132-133.

"Muira puama, Ptychopetalum olacoides." 1956. Brazilian Pharmacopeia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Youngken, H. W., 1921, "las Observations in puama of muira, " J. I am Pharm. Assoc., 10, 690-2 (1921)

Waynberg, J. "Contribuciones to the Clinical Validation of Traditional Uso of guyanna of Ptychopetalum." Presented/displayed in the First Congress the International in Ethnopharmacology, Strasbourg, France, the 5-9 of June of 1990.

Werbach, Melvyn R., M. D. & Murray, Michael, N. D., 1994. Influencias botanical in the Disease, an Original one of clinical investigation. Third Press of the Line, Tarzana, California P. 200.

Waynberg, J. 1995., Masculine Sexual Asthenia - the Interest in a Medicine Derived from Traditional Planta. Ethnopharmacology, Spoils 1995.

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