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General Anti-Viral, Asthma, Dermatosis
Gout, Hemorrhoids Jergon Sacha
 Summarized Description:
Jergon sacha is a rainforest plant, common to the northwest Amazon --
(ours is harvested from the Peruvian Amazon). Our variety refers to
D. longipes, D. loretense, or D. peruviuanum, as all three have
the same appearance and properties. Although the primary ethnobotanical
use of Jergon is to address snackbites -- (in fact, the plant even LOOKS
like the highly poisonous Bothrops (genus) of snakes which grow
in the same area of the rainforest) -- it has other important medicinal
properties. (See below).
Uses & Protocols
Once you get beyond Jergon's use as an antidote
for snack and spider bites, stringray wounds, and curare dart attacks -- hardly
relevant to most users outside Jergon's native areas -- the next category of medicinal
applications tends to be anti-viral. In fact, Jergon is one of three ingredients
in a Peruvian AIDS (CIDA) remedy. (The other two ingredients are cat's claw and
turmeric). Other common ailments for which Jergon is used ethnobotanically include
menstrual disorders, chlorosis, asthma, gout, pertussis, sores, and worms.
Dosage: two capsules, two to three times daily.Warnings & Contraindications
None noted when product used as prescribed.
Shelf-Life
Five years or more.
Medicinal Activities
Further information for practitioners:
World-famous botanist Dr. James Duke attributes the following activities
to this plant (p. 275-277; see hardcopy cover at right),
drawn from the extant literature. (See his graduation for "level of
efficacy" on our amazon traditionals page;
followed by Duke's bibliographic abbreviations (in capital letters),
which we identify
on a separate page.) Duke provides a "food farmacy potential" score for this
plant of "FNFF=?."
Indications
Further information for practitioners:
Duke provides the following indications for this plant:
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 Recent Studies on Jergon Sacha Sourced from PubMed Disclaimer: The following citations provide findings on the
properties of Jatoba and offer insights into prospective areas of future research.
These findings should not be inferred to provide the basis of medicinal claims,
nor should they be relied upon by the public, as such. Readers who want full access to
the PubMed database are encouraged to
register with NCBI.As of Jan. 2017, there were only a handful
of citations covering the entire Dracontium genus. Below we list a few of the more notable:
Extensive information about
Jergon Sacha is covered on the Raintree Forest website.
Even better, you can purchase Leslie Taylor's excellent reference book,
The Healing Power
of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals at Amazon.The Dracontium genus is briefly covered
Wikipedia. |
