Kill Hunger With Hoodia
Hoodia Gordonii, known as the ‘Bushman’s Hat’ and ‘Queen of the Namib’, is a flowering plant native to Southern Africa. It belongs to the Apocynaceae family. It grows to a height of a meter and has tan or purple color flowers that have a strong smell. The natives call the plant Khoba, Ghaap and Xhooba. The plant is found in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola. It is a plant that is specifically native to the Namib Desert.
Hoodia is traditionally eaten by the San Bushmen who live in the Kalahari desert. These nomadic people eat the Hoodia stem to suppress their hunger when they are out on long hunting trips. The plant was also used by them for hemorrhoids, severe abdominal cramps, indigestion, tuberculosis, diabetes and hypertension. There are some twenty varieties of Hoodia. Of them, it is only the Hoodia Gordonii variety that suppresses natural appetite. Hoodia plants flowers in about five years after which it can be harvested.
The fact that the San Bushmen used Hoodia was first noted and reported to the outside world by a Dutch anthropologist in 1937. A scientific examination of the plant of its reported benefits however commenced only in 1963 when the national laboratory of South Africa, CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) began to study the plant. Along with the scientists of a British company, Phytopharm, they isolated the active ingredient of Hoodia. This ingredient, a steroidal glycoside, was named p57. It soon began to be commercially exploited and sold worldwide through the health food stores. Sold in the capsule and liquid form, much has been written about it in h57 hoodia reviews. Hoodia is marketed as an appetite killer for those who wish to lose weight and control obesity. Hoodia is found to send signals to the brain than makes you feel that you are full.
Hoodia became instantly popular world wide. The market for the Hoodia products boomed. The result was rapid lose of Hoodia from its natural habitat. This led Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to include Hoodia in Appendix II which meant that Hoodia will have to be declared as an endangered species if its extraction from nature was not immediately restricted. In fact, in 2008 the Botanic Gardens Conservation International listed also declared that the plant faced extinction due to indiscriminate exploitation. The government soon took to farming in government controlled farms in the Kalahari Desert. This regulation also subsequently led to the San Bushmen, the originators and holders of the knowledge, to receive a share in the royalty from the sales.
Whatever we need, nature, always has something to give. So, we should handle nature with care.
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