How does an herb with large curved, thorn-like horns
resembling the claws of a cat, its vine climbing to 100 feet on a wall came to
be one of nature’s most powerful healers?
For starters, Cat’s claw or Uncaria tomentosa, is native to the Amazon rainforest - a vast rich
habitat where many herbal practitioners look to as a frontier source of
biodiversity and of powerful, undiscovered, herbal remedies.
Although the herb has only been recently renowned,
it has been used as a health tonic and treatment by the indigenous peoples of
the region for many centuries.
Serious research into the benefits of the plant has
been underway since the 1970s. The fact that cat's claw is
available on prescription in certain countries is a clear indication of its
biochemical potency.
Anti-inflammatory magic
The plant’s barks
and roots have been used for ages for its anti-inflammatory properties
alleviating conditions with inflammatory processes such as in rheumatoid and osteoarthritis,
Lyme disease (which also has arthritis and encephalitis symptoms) stomach
ulcers and dysentery.
Infection-fighting
The
plant’s extracts are a powerful antiseptic, anti-parasitic, anti-viral and antibiotic
agent. The compounds found in cat’s claw greatly stimulate the adaptive
biological infection-fighting mechanism of the body, thus boosting the immune
system fighting almost all kinds of infection. It has also been found out to
treat sexually-transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea.
Smooth operator
Scientific
studies reveal a therapeutic effect of cat’s claw extracts which is dilating
blood vessels. This effect helps relax the muscles of organs which can help
lower blood pressure and improve circulation.
Detox the natural way
Cat’s
claw is also a natural diuretic - it purges excess solutes through urine and
further helps in decreasing renal threshold, improving kidney detoxification.
Gets rid of free radicals
Cat’s
claw has antioxidant activities which help the body fight free radicals which are
a bane to cells. Free radicals redound to the body’s demise, including various
chronic diseases. Antioxidants help counteract these radicals and reduce the
process of oxidative stress.
Cat’s
claw can also significantly help in replicating healthy T-helper cells to
impede AIDS pathogenicity.
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