Chu Chu Huasi
Maytenus macrocarpa (Celastracae)
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| One of the top amazon traditional botanicals, it is particularly famous throughout the western Amazon Basin where it is semi cultivated near villages, or wildcrafted. Well noted as a liquid extract with fast-acting general analgesic, anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxing properties. Often called “Trembling Back” this great tree yields a powerful bark. Considered a fine, all purpose anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic, it also shows some minor antitumoral and anticancer properties in trials. One study suggest use for patients with skin cancer 3, another 5 demonstrated cytotoxicity against lung carcinonoma. The best known of all jungle remedies for its ability to relax muscles quickly 46 10-20. |
 Suggested
retail:
 1oz. Liquid Extract Chu Chu Huasi: $9.95
300cc Traditional Fito-Therapeutic Chu Chu Huasi Tea: $14.95
1lb. Bulk Herb Cut & Sifted Chu Chu Huasi: $19.95
Suggested Use: Liquids: Use 15-20 drops mixed with water one to two times daily or as recommended by a practitioner.
Cautions: May increase drowsiness and promote relaxation. Use under care/advice of a medical practitioner.
Not intended for long term therapy.
Contraindications: Do not use if driving. Do not use in combination with other muscle relaxing drugs.
Ingredients: Full spectrum bark extracted in distilled water and 40% organic grain alcohol.
More About Chu Chu Huasi:
1. Genotoxicity of plant extracts.
Vargas VM; Guidobono RR; Henriques JA
Departamento do Meio Ambiente, Secretaria da Saude e Meio Ambiente, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 86 Suppl 2: 67-70 (1991)
2. Chuchuhuasha - a drug used in folk medicine in the Amazonian and Andean areas. Achemical study of Maytenus laevis.
Gonzalez JG; delle Monache G; delle Monache F; Marini-Bettol GB
J Ethnopharmacol, 5: 1, 1982 Jan, 73-7
3. [First observations on the topical use of Primin, Plumbagin and Maytenin in patients with skin cancer]
Melo AM; Jardim ML; De Santana CF; Lacet Y; Lobo Filho J; De Lima e Ivan Leoncio OG
Rev Inst Antibiot (Recife), 14: 1-2, 1974 Dec, 9-16
4. Pharmacologic and toxicologic effects of two Maytenus species in laboratory animals.
Oliveira MG; Monteiro MG; Macaúúbas C; Barbosa VP; Carlini EA
J Ethnopharmacol, 34: 1, 1991 Aug, 29-41
5. Antitumor agents, 116. Cytotoxic triterpenes from Maytenus diversifolia.
Nozaki H; Matsuura Y; Hirono S; Kasai R; Chang JJ; Lee KH
J Nat Prod, 53: 4, 1990 Jul-Aug, 1039-41
6. Antiulcerogenic effects of two Maytenus species in laboratory animals.
Souza-Formigoni ML; Oliveira MG; Monteiro MG; da Silveira-Filho NG; Braz S; Carlini EA
J Ethnopharmacol, 34: 1, 1991 Aug, 21-7
7. Antiulcerogenic effects of two Maytenus species in laboratory animals.
Vargas VM; Guidobono RR; Henriques JA
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 86 Suppl 2:1991, 67-70
8. Cytotoxic aromatic triterpenes from Maytenus ilicifolia and Maytenus chuchuhuasca.
Shirota O; Morita H; Takeya K; Itokawa H
J Nat Prod, 57: 12, 1994 Dec, 1675-81
9. Macrocarpins A-D, new cytotoxic nor-triterpenes from Maytenus macrocarpa.
Chavez H, Rodriguez G, Estevez-Braun A, Ravelo AG, Estevez-Reyes R, Gonzalez AG, Fdez-Puente JL, Garcia-Gravalos D.
Instituto Universitario de Bio-Organica Antonio Gonzalez, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2000 Apr 17;10(8):759-62.
PMID: 10782680 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
10. Sesquiterpene polyol esters from the leaves of maytenus macrocarpa
Chavez H, Callo N, Estevez-Braun A, Ravelo AG, Gonzalez AG.
Instituto Universitario de Bio-Organica “Antonio Gonzalez”, Universidad de La Laguna, Avenida Astrofisico Fco. Sanchez 2, 38206 Tenerife, Spain.
J Nat Prod. 1999 Nov;62(11):1576-7.
PMID: 10579879 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
11. Friedelane triterpenoids from Maytenus macrocarpa.
Chavez H, Estevez-Braun A, Ravelo AG, Gonzalez AG.
Instituto Universitario de Bio-Organica, Antonio Gonzalez, Universidad de Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain.
J Nat Prod. 1998 Jan;61(1):82-5.
PMID: 9461656 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
12. New natural sesquiterpenes as modulators of daunomycin resistance in a multidrug-resistant Leishmania tropica line.
Perez-Victoria JM, Tincusi BM, Jimenez IA, Bazzocchi IL, Gupta MP, Castanys S, Gamarro F, Ravelo AG.
Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina “Lopez-Neyra”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Ventanilla, 11, 18001 Granada, Spain.
J Med Chem. 1999 Oct 21;42(21):4388-93.
PMID: 10543882 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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