GUARANA
Name: Guarana
Scientific name: Paullinia Cupana
The other names: Paullinia Sorbilis
Summary: Powerful stimulant like coffee, but without its exciting effects because of the strong content tanins.
Description: It is about a woolly liana climbing on trees with cut compound leaves, tiny yellow flowers in cluster and piriformes fruits containing seeds.
Environment and culture: Native from Amazonian forest, guarana is cultivated in Brazil. It harvests seeds with maturity.
Used parts : Seeds
Constituents: Guaranin, theobromin, theophyllin, caffein 5 % (0,5 - 2 times more than the coffee, that is until 7 %!) tanins and saponins.
History: Guarana was already used at precolombian time by several native Amazonian tribes.Indians were the first ones to discover all the physiological and medicinal effects of this plant sacred liana. From its discovery in the XIX-th century, Guarana becomes popular for its stimulating properties and becomes fast exploited industrially. It is known in Brazil as tonic the most popular today.
Manners: Some people prescribes it against headaches, light depressions, gets tired and aphrodisiac ( general stimulation favors local traffic). Some people can also take it to replace the morning coffee.
Effects: Stimulate physical and intellectual activities, acts as anti-stress and anti-gets tired and cuts naturally famine.
Warnings: do not use in the following cases: ulcer, gastritis, cardiovascular high blood pressure, diseases and palpitation to the children. It is also disadvised to make a prolonged usage of it because tanins decreases absorption capacities of nourishing elements of the bowel.
Information: Brazilian researchers to exploit the production of guarana created a hybrid sort in the form of shrub allowing to have a better harvest (20 times more). There is a concentration subordinate in caffeine and an imbalance in tanin. This chemical sort serves for drinks and medicines.
Preparation: It is at first necessary
to remove the seeds of them barks. One can either chew seeds or make an infusion
of it. Not to go beyond 8 seeds a day (average: between 3 and 6).
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