Cat’s Claw

The Cat’s Claw is a Peruvian medicinal plant that serves to treat and heal arthritis and rheumatism; it can use to relieve the cancer or malignant tumors, between them the bone cancer (osteosarcoma); also many use it for viral problems like AIDS and flu, because it raises them the immunologic system. For all these problems you should use Cat’s Claw of reddish color (the brown colors don’t have major healing power), which is a wild plant and therefore organic, taking it as water of time prepared with flour of Cat’s Claw; a great majority takes it as capsules but its healing effects reduce.

1.- Cat’s Claw Dose (the little red)

Cat’s Claw in Flour: (Internal bark or root)

Adults: Put to boil 1 spoonful (5 grams) of Cat’s Claw in powder in 1 liter of water, on a low flame and during 10 minutes. Take the cooking as water of time during the day, being able to add to it honey bee to your taste. Take it through 3 months and then rest 1 month. more»

2.- Cat’s Claw

Synonymous: There are many names, synonymous and similars: with Cat’s Claw Uncaria Tomentosa; like this we have Uncaria surinamensis, Nauclea aculeata, Nauclea tomentosa, Ourouparia tomentosa, Khadir (Sanskrit), Khat (Hindi), Nauclea gambir, Ourouparia Gambia, Rubiaceae (family), and Uncaria Gambia. more»

Only there is a similar plant known as Uncaria guianensis, which is very alike to Cat’s Claw Uncaria Tomentosa. The Cat’s Claw Uncaria Tomentosa is unique in its healing properties and differences by its reddish color. The Cat’s Claw Uncaria Tomentosa grows mainly in countries like Bolivia, where it’s known as tambor huasca, Ecuador and Colombia, it’s proper of these countries, where there isn’t Cat’s Claw of the type Uncaria Tomentosa more»

Between its active principles mainly identified can count 6 alkaloids oxindolics, 6 glycosides of quinovic acid and 3 polyhydroxylated tripterpenes. The most studied components, the alkaloids oxindolics feed the world interest of medicinal properties of the plant. more»

The present studies have demonstrated the immunostimulant and anti-inflammatory actions. It’s advisable that anti-inflammatory effect is due to its capacity to inhibit TNF alpha and in less measurement the production of PGE2. Clinical assays demonstrate its effectiveness about joint pain in rheumatoid arthritis more»

From more than 800 years ago Cat’s Claw is used for Peruvian tribes to treat very ancient diseases like arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes, gastritis, bile colics, gastric ulcers, to clean the digestive tract, the malignant tumors or cancer, dysentery, for the mind recovery of women after the labor, and for the hormonal imbalances in women. It acts as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. more»

It helps to stimulate the immunologic system and increases the activity of white corpuscles in presence of the alkaloids isomitraphyline and pteropodine of the root and the bark that have been isolated. It increases the phagocytic activity of granulocytes, neutrophils and macrophages, and stimulates the production of lymphokines . more»

The Cat’s Claw is an Amazonian medicinal plant, very abundant in the primary forests that allow it, on the one hand, its use in natural populations that can cultivate as sprouts or not leave to disappear, cutting the liana since 10 cm upon the ground without extracting the root. Also you can cultivate with seeds or stakes, as long as being inside its habitat, because its components are its tropical climate, its soil, its ph of soil and its rocky depth mainly sedimentary, clastic of the Tertiary and Paleozoic.. more»