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CANCHALAGUA HERBAL TEA (BLOOD PURIFIER/WEIGHT LOSS/INDIGESTION))

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Canchalagua - Herbal Tea (85g.)
                  
Latin (botanical) Name: Schkuhria pinnata

Summarized Description: Canchalagua is a native traditional, and although originating from the Andes of South America, it has, over the past century, been naturalized to many places around the world. Like Ajo Té, canchalagua has a broad range of medicinal uses and because of its immune-boosting properties, there are few ailments that do not see at least some benefit from its use.

Product Description:
Ground Leaves & Root of Canchalagua. Ground tea leaves: 85 gr. (net wt) Makes Nearly 2 Gallons of Tea (Using 11 g. or approx 1/3 cup to make one quart)

Benefits: Blood Purifier / Anti-Microbial / Weight Loss / Indigestion

Uses and Protocols:
I. Preparation --- if you can boil water, you can make this product: Professional herbalists will recognize this as a standard decoction.

  1. Add 1/3 cups of Canchalagua to a large sauce pan, along with one quart of purified water (0.95 liters). You have enough product in the product bag to do this seven to eight times.
  2. Heat until a very low-level boil or "barely boiling" level has been reached and continue boiling for 5 minutes.
  3. Stir occasionally.
  4. Remove heat source and let cool.
  5. Pour the contents of your pan through a strainer and into a large glass vase or container so as to remove most of the tea fragments.
  6. Dispose of tea fragments.
  7. Drink your tea hot . . . refrigerate glass vase and enjoy later as a refreshing cold tea . . . or refrigerate and reheat later if you want to enjoy the product as a hot tea. You may add cinnamon, lemon, and/or honey to taste. More specific protocols for the use of the product are provided below.
II. Protocols.
Take under the advisement of your naturopath or other health care practitioner.

Contraindications: None indicated.

"Ethnobotanical Dosage / Usage: Duke provides a "food farmacy potential" score for this plant of, "FNFF=X" ("I found nothing credible suggesting the plant as food.") He indicates a recommended dosage as "1 cup shoot or plant infusion 3x/day as blood cleanser and diuretic (RA2); 1 to 2 g. capsule 2x/day for acne and as antimalarial." (RA2)

Indications for its ethnobotanical use worldwide are broad and fall into the following categories (p. 613):

  1. Gastrosis, malaria, and stomachaches (Africa).
  2. Gastrosis, stomachaches (Kenya)
  3. Malaria (Altenos indians).
  4. Antispasmodic (Native American)
  5. Diarrhea, respiratory infection, UTI's, antibiotic, vulnerary, weight loss, depurative (Argentina)
  6. Weight loss -- (root decoction / Bolivia / Peru)
  7. Malaria, cystosis, nephrosis (Bolivia)
  8. Acne, eczema, dermatitis, blood cleaner (Ketchwa)
  9. Repel fleas and lice (Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America); used similarly in Paraguay as an insecticide.
  10. Indigestion (Peru / Mexico)
  11. Vaginal yeast --(Peru)
  12. Obesity (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador)" Greg Caton

Additional Online Resources:

  1. This plant's entry on Herbal Ayurveda.
  2. Pictorial from Discover Life.
  3. Rainfree "Tropical Plant Database" entry for canchalagua. Provides additional detail on the plant's medicinal properties, along with medical literary citations, as well as a chart on ethnomedical uses.
  4. USDA entry for canchalagua from the its Natural Resources Conservation Service. Provides detail on its botanical classification, as well as a map of its distribution inside the continental U.S. See also the USDA's entry by its Germplasm Resources Information Network, with additional database resources on the plant. (Similarly, a distribution map for New South Wales, Australia is online, a photos from the same areas in NSW can be found on Flickr.)
  5. Efloras.org description of the plant, with emphasis on its physicalities.
  6. Entry for the plant from the Southwest Environmental Information Network, again focussing on the plant's physicalities.
  7. A rigorous antioxidant evaluation of the plant, published by the Chemical Society of Mexico. (This is the English version). Speaking of Mexico, there's a good site in Spanish on this plant with pictures and helpful links. A similar study to the one above, also focussing on the plant's "sesquiterpene lactones," and yet another from IngentaConnect.
  8. Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness -- brief entry from the Western New Mexico Department of Natural Sciences for this plant, with pictures.
  9. MetAfro entry, listing references to medicinal studies (with distribution) on canchalagua in Africa.
  10. Scientific study showing efficacy of this plant against acne; another supporting its hypoglycemic activity in diabetes; another showing its effect in treating malaria.

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