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.
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):
Additional Online Resources:
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.
- 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.
- Heat until a very low-level boil or "barely boiling" level has been reached and continue boiling for 5 minutes.
- Stir occasionally.
- Remove heat source and let cool.
- 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.
- Dispose of tea fragments.
- 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.
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):
- Gastrosis, malaria, and stomachaches (Africa).
- Gastrosis, stomachaches (Kenya)
- Malaria (Altenos indians).
- Antispasmodic (Native American)
- Diarrhea, respiratory infection, UTI's, antibiotic, vulnerary, weight loss, depurative (Argentina)
- Weight loss -- (root decoction / Bolivia / Peru)
- Malaria, cystosis, nephrosis (Bolivia)
- Acne, eczema, dermatitis, blood cleaner (Ketchwa)
- Repel fleas and lice (Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America); used similarly in Paraguay as an insecticide.
- Indigestion (Peru / Mexico)
- Vaginal yeast --(Peru)
- Obesity (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador)" Greg Caton
Additional Online Resources:
- This plant's entry on Herbal Ayurveda.
- Pictorial from Discover Life.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Efloras.org description of the plant, with emphasis on its physicalities.
- Entry for the plant from the Southwest Environmental Information Network, again focussing on the plant's physicalities.
- 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.
- Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness -- brief entry from the Western New Mexico Department of Natural Sciences for this plant, with pictures.
- MetAfro entry, listing references to medicinal studies (with distribution) on canchalagua in Africa.
- Scientific study showing efficacy of this plant against acne; another supporting its hypoglycemic activity in diabetes; another showing its effect in treating malaria.
