Hoodia Gordonii plant is a cactus, which grows in Kalahari Desert and is rather beautiful. It pale purple flowers, which appear on cactus after it reaches the maturity. It has many different names – people from “Sans Bushmen” (the primitive tribe where people started to use Hoodia Gordonii plant) call it xshoba or xhooba, others refer to it as Hoodia cactus or African cactus, but these are actually incorrect names, while the scientific one is Hoodia Gordonii. So, people from “Sans Bushmen” started to eat Hoodia Gordonii in order to suppress thirst and hunger, when they were going to the long hunts. It also helped them to treat digestion problems and skin infections.
As it has been already mentioned, African Hoodia Gordonii grows in Kalahari Desert, so there are certain problems in growing this plant for commercial uses. As you can guess, this plant requires a really high temperature in order to grow and develop, like in its native desert. Another problem is the fact that Hoodia Gordonii plant needs up to five years in order to reach the maturity. The quantities of wild plants are extremely limited and protected by the government of South Africa from reaping. The first company which started to use Hoodia Gordonii in the composition of its products (“Phytopharm”) has found a solution – it set up large plantations in South Africa and grows Hoodia there. Still, “Phytopharm” is not going to sell their products, which are protected by the rights laws, in the nearest years. There are many other companies offering various hoodia products, but you should know that there are over twenty different kinds of Hoodia plant and only Hoodia Gordonii produces a natural appetite suppression effect. So there are lots of various kinds of Hoodia products, produced by different companies, but if there’s no Hoodia Gordonii in their composition, then such products won’t have an effect of appetite suppression. So it’s better to choose a company with a good reputation which has a full line of products. Remember that along with appetite suppression Hoodia Gordonii leads to the suppression of thirst, that’s why it’s recommended to drink a lot of water when using it.
So Hoodia Gordonii plant has a wonderful effect and it’s no wonder that some people would like to have a large supply of it, still, it’s important to preserve the wild plants of African Hoodia Gordonii in order the future generations could enjoy the helpful effects of this plant.
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