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Natural Nutraceutical for Prostate Health
Young Mashua Flower
Tincture (Organic) (Tropaeolum tuberosum) 8 Fl. Oz. (240 ml.) Code S-139 Price: $19.95 Order Now 
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 Summarized Description:
Tincture of "Flor de Mashua" is used in various communities
throughout the Andes to treat prostate cancer and BPH.
In small Andean "farmer's markets," you can find small jars of the
pulverized, dried mashua root, which is used when prostate issues
are thought to flare up, but I have heard repeatedly from several fellow,
native Andean herbalists that this extract from the young flower is far more
potent.One very prominent and
revered herbalist that I met in
Baņos
de Aqua Santa, Ecuador in 2009 claimed that
he has cured prostate cancer cases, some of them quite advanced,
with Tincture of Mashua Flower alone. Since I was not able to verify that
with any of his patients that I met while in
Tungurahua
Province, I mentally filed this practitioner's claim away as "unconfirmed."Please note that this product is sold
both as a traditional and a
special order item, although
we carry it in stock at all times . . . [G. Caton]
Instructions / Ingredients
Take 1 tsp. (5 ml.), twice a day.
If you find the alcohol in this alcohol-based tincture objectionable, then simply
put the teaspoon of tincture in a cup of hot (near boiling) green tea and wait
five minutes. The alcohol will readily flash off (i.e. evaporate).Ingredients: Mashua extract, alcohol,
purified water (30% by weight).Contraindications
All edible parts of mashua are known to
drop testosterone levels, so this product is contraindicated with all
natural and pharmaceutical-grade ED (erectile dysfunction) products.
Duke (see below) makes the historical note that "Peruvian rulers (used mashua) like salt pepper, as an
antiaphrodisiac for the troops." (1) He goes on to note that mashua
"contains p-methoxybenzylglucosinolate. Male rats fed tubers in their diet
were as capable as the control animals in impregnating females but showed a 45% drop
in their blood levels of testosterone / dihydrotestosterone, apparently related to the
isothiocyanates." (2)
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. 718-719; 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.)
Indications
Further information for practitioners:
Duke provides the following indications for this plant:
Footnotes
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Preparation to make the
tincture of Flor de Mashua begins with the collection of young
mashua flowers. Our flowers come from our own cultivated field of
mashua (see below). 
At any given time, we can be found
growing mashua, native to the high Andes, from Colombia and Ecuador,
through Peru, in our own botanical gardens. 
Although the tubers of mashua
are prized as a food source in Peru, they are more commonly grown
as ornamentals or medicinals in Ecuador. This is probably because
there are so many edible, native tumors in Ecuador from which to choose.
Traditional
Ethnobotanical Dosage / Usage Duke provides a "food farmacy
potential" score for this plant of, "FNFF=!!" ("Important food in some
parts of the world; not in major supermarkets")
Indications for its
ethnobotanical use worldwide are broad and fall into the
following categories (p. 719):
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