Brazilian Ginseng

Brazilian Ginseng (Pfaffia paniculata syn. Hebanthe paniculata, Gomphrena paniculata, Gomphrena eriantha, Iresine eriantha, Iresine paniculata Iresine tenuis Pfaffia eriantha, Xeraea paniculata) is the root of a vine from the ground, in South America, traditionally used as tonic medicine . Named all-round, is an adaptogenic qualities herbal medicine used to standardize and improve the body's systems, increasing resistance to stress and amplifying its functioning.

History
Ethnomedicine reveals that Iresine celosia, Tlantcuayin, was used by the Maya-Quiche civilization ca. 2000 years ago.

The species appears in the famous medical manuscript of 1552 Columbian: "Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis."

During the 1960s until 1986, Efraín Contreras (1898-1986), a well known naturopath, discover their antitumor properties. Between the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, obtained government approval to manage it as a liquid extract of dried herb to hospital patients at the Hospital El Retiro "and" Bertha Calderon Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua. The evaluation of the "Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua" (1983) concludes qu "herbal extract Codina VII (Iresine celosia) given to patients with tumors in the digestive system - before the surgery and then postoperatively. These patients had multiple carcinomas of the stomach and regional lymph nodes. The postoperative dose consistently reduced tumor size and other cases treated. During surgery of mammary gland carcinomas in situ and metastasis and distant metastasis in situ these disappeared within 12-15 days of treatment, and those were reduced distance. In all cases where Codina VI was used, the improvement was distinctly obvious. Improved general llestado, bleeding, vaginal discharge and pain disappeared. No toxicity or side effects were observed. " In the 1990s, the Iresine celosia was given to patients suffering from prostate problems, in sexual impotence with promising results. Major studies have been carried out by Pierre Crabbé, PR Carl Djerassi Leeming and a contribution from the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, USA. UU. (Structure of the isoflavone Tlatlancuayin).

The Iresine celosia is introduced in Europe in 1994. Edda Ms. Contreras, the daughter of Efrain Contreras, the first time collaborating with the "European Institute for Tropical d Fitoterapia. From 1994-1998, Iresine celosia is presented in" De Rerum Natura Forum in Cannes, Sophia Antipolis, Biarritz, Lyon and Paris (France). The records show that traditional Iresine celosia was used in pathologies such as prostate tumors, mammary glands, ovaries, brain, intestines, etc. The Iresine celosia is also used to activate pa libido in psychiatric and depressions patoloías the immune system.

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