NATURA HERBAL SLiM

   

I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION.-

This compound product is made from the following plants:

Linseed (Linum Usitatissimum)

Arabic Gum (acacia gum)

Seaweed (Gigartina Chamissoi)

Pectin (Pectinc)

Garlic (Allium Sativum )

Chamomile  (Matricaria Chamomilla)

Artichoke (Cynara Scolymus L)

Lemon (Citrus Limonum)

Lignin (Lignins)

Hercampuri (Gentianella Alborocea)

Cellulose Microcrystalline (Cellulosa Microcristaline)

Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale)

Field Horsetail (Equisetum Arvense)

Cellulose (Cellulosa)

Semi-cellulose (Hemicellulose)

 

   

    II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT.-

 

• Linseed (Linum Usitatissimum): Flax is a herbaceous plant of the linaceae family. It has a hollow, cylindrical, straight stalk that grows to 70cm (2ft 4in). It  has narrow and pointy leaves, growing alternately at either side of the stalk. The flowers grow at the end of each branch, presenting 5 light blue petals. The fruit, a round capsule ending in a little pointy tip, has 10 cavities, each of which has a flat, long, dark and shiny seed inside (Linseed). Linseed consists of the dry mature flax seeds, whole or ground. Linseed contains 27 anti-carcinogen compounds, one of which, Lignin, is 100 times more abundant than in any other whole grain. Linseed also contains Omega 3 fatty acids.

   

Properties:

• Excellent for weight loss, eliminates cholesterol and prevents arteriosclerosis.

• Helps control triglycerides.

• Controls appetite sensation.

• Mild, non-irritant laxative properties, that relieve chronic or occasional constipation.

• Helps restore the gastric membrane and mucus and it relieves symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis and gastritis.

      

• Arabic Gum (Acacia gum): This a polysaccharide of natural origin is extracted from the resin of sub-Saharan trees (Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal). The resin is produced as part of the trees’ scarring process, known as gummosis. The resin is odorless, normally found in clumps the size of a nut, of a reddish or yellowish color. These are collected by hand once dry. To increase its production, longitudinal, parallel and shallow cuts, 2 ft long, are made onto the bark of the tree.

 

Properties:

Has a high fiber content (85%), contributing to the development of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal mucus, stimulating bowel movement, lipid metabolism and production of antibodies. Because it is not easily digested (highly resistant to enzymes), Arabic gum has a low caloric value, helping in the reduction of body weight.

 

• Seaweed (Gigartina Chamissoi): These aquatic plants live in marine forests. There are more than 25,000 species and some species change their color according to their depth. Asian cultures have utilized them from time immemorial for their vitamins and minerals that help prevent and treat many diseases.

  

Properties:

• Controls body weight: due to its high iodine content that normalizes thyroid function, which helps us keep a higher metabolic rate and a feeling of energy, which in turn help us burn carbohydrates and not store them as fat deposits in the body.

• Reduces appetite, works as a mild laxative, relieving chronic constipation and promoting proper elimination.

• Helps lower cholesterol (it doesn’t contain any, nor does it have saturated fats).

• Nutritional supplement: contains a high level of minerals, rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and molybdenum.

 

• Pectin, Extracted from apples (Pectin): Apples have high pectin content. Pectin is a very important component of the cellular walls of vegetables and fruits. Pectin is a carbohydrate that acts as soluble fiber and is not digestible in the intestine. This fiber, when mixed in water, forms a network that traps water, making the mix a gel. Thanks to its capacity to absorb water, pectin augments the volume of fecal mater, thus trapping other matter in the intestines and slowing down the absorption rate of some nutrients into the system as well as cleaning the intestine of remaining putrefactions in it.

  

Properties:

• Pectin helps reduce cholesterol levels; pectin adjoins bilious acids, helping their expulsion in feces. These acids are the product of cholesterol degradation. This contributes to lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease.

• Pectin is a water soluble fiber that relieves gastrointestinal problems.

• Helps eliminate heavy metals from our system (lead and mercury).

• Slows down absorption of sugars into the bloodstream, which in a way reduces hyperglycemia.

 

• Garlic (Allium Sativum): Garlic belongs to the Liliaceae family. This is a herbaceous plant, with long leaves, overlayed, flat or cylindrical. Garlic is the bulb, made up of many bulbs called ‘cloves’ that share a common outer membrane. From the base, grow numerous white rootlets. Garlic has been used in popular medicine for over 5,000 years, principally in the treatment of respiratory ailments and as a cardio-protector.

   

Properties:

• Diuretic, supports the elimination of liquids, specially in rheumatism, hydroposia and edema.

• Helps increase the level of insulin in the body, reducing thus the levels of sugar in the blood.

• Helps eliminate metabolic residue in the body; its enzymes favor a good synthesis of fatty acids, helping reduce bad cholesterol (LDL).Thus, it supports functioning of the heart, reducing arterial blockage. It also supports better blood flow, reducing arteriosclerosis, hypertension, high cholesterol levels, myocardial infarction, and other circulatory related issues including hemorrhoids and claudication (a pain in the legs caused by bad circulation or arteriosclerosis).

• Helps support the respiratory system, reducing bacterial growth through its high sulfur content (reducing the effects of gripe, bronchitis, pharyngitis, etc).

• Used also as a stimulant, energetic, aphrodisiac.

 

• Chamomile (Matricaria Chamomilla):  Aromatic herb, annual, grows to 60 cm (2 ft) high; smooth, long stalks and green leaves divided in toothed lobes. Its flowers are white and yellow.  Dried Chamomile flowers have been used with medicinal purposes over millennia.

  

 

Properties:

• Especially used in cases of inappetency, nausea, vomit, indigestion, slow digestion, constipation, diarrhea, gastritis, ulcers, gastrointestinal spasms, stomach acidity, flatulent colic and irritable bowel syndrome.

• Carminative, facilitates the expulsion of gases from the digestive system.

• Helps reduce cholesterol through its high vitamin C content.

• Choleretic, stimulates the production of bile.

• Protects the liver from hepatic congestions and inflammation.

• Spasmolytic, mild tranquilizer (through its calming action on the digestive system).

• Emmenagogue, regulates and facilitates the flow of menstruation.

 

• Artichoke (Cynara Scolynus L): Herbaceous plant, very close to the thistle. Grows up to 5ft tall, and flowers from the top every year after winter. Creates a rosette of deeply segmented leaves. The leaves are light green and are covered with white fibrils that give it a pale aspect. The stalk is rounded, with few leaves and on top of it grow large heads (the artichokes), covered in many coriaceous bractea (leathery plate-like leaves).

• It flowers in summertime. For food purposes, the heads are collected, for medicinal purposes, the leaves are collected. These have a characteristic bitter taste, strong and persistent.

 

Properties:

• Helps reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, decreases arterial pressure and prevents atherosclerosis; which decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease and helps in the recovery from it as well as from infarction, angina, etc.

• Helps reduce blood glucose levels, good for hyperglycemic and diabetic people.

• Diuretic, supports the elimination of liquids in the body. This also helps reduce obesity and decrease the set of diseases and symptoms related to retention of liquids, toxins and uric acid in the body: circulatory and hepatic dysfunction, gout, arthritis, etc.

• Protects the Liver. Helps in the recovery from hepatic diseases (cirrhosis, hepatitis, hepatic insufficiency, intoxication, etc).

• Contains caffeic acid, linoleic acid, oleic acid, which help protect the liver, and caffeoylquinic acid that has a choleretic function, or helps restore bilious flow.

 

• Lemon (Citrus Limonum): The lemon tree grows to 4 or 5 m (13 to 16 ft) tall, has a smooth trunk with numerous branches and thick, hard thorns. The branches and leaves appear pinkish when young. The leaves are unifoliate, pale green, from oblong to elliptic-oval, from 2 to 5 in. in length and 1 to 2.5 in. in width. At their base grows a thorn. The flowers have 5 petals, white in the inside and pink in the outside. The fruit, the lemon, grows to 4 inches long, oval, with a nipple at one end. It has a rugged surface, varying in color from intense yellow to golden to green. The peel is not too thick and protects a carnose and acidic pulp, sectioned in slices.

   

Properties:

• Used in cases of indigestion, gastritis, food intoxications (from excessive ingestion). It contains beta-bisolobene that eliminates gastric acidity, thus reducing the risk of ulcers. It is anti-diarrheic and protects the gastrointestinal mucus. It’s carminative, facilitating the expulsion of gases.

• Rich in vitamin C, which gives it antiscorbutic properties; rich in Potassium and Calcium. Supports formation of leucocytes which helps the immune system.

• Ascorbic and limonene acids help in cases of rheumatism, arthrosis, arthritis, gout, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, and high uric acid.

• The lemon has alkalinizing properties in urea, which prevent formation of kidney stones.

• Good for the circulatory system: prevents angina, protects the capillary, lowers hypertension; helps in the formation of red blood cells.

• Diuretic: its high ascorbic acid content helps eliminate body fluids through urine.

 

• Lignin, Linseed extract (Lignins):  Lignins are polymers that are insoluble in acids and soluble in strong alkalis like sodium hydroxide. Lignins are not digestible nor absorbed by the digestive system. Neither are they attacked by the microflora of the colon. They can bind to bilious acids and other organic compounds like cholesterol, slowing and diminishing their absorption into the thin intestine. The degree of lignification affects notably the digestibility of fiber. Lignin augments ostensibly in the cell walls of plants as they mature. It resists bacterial degradation and its fiber content reduces the digestibility of fibrous polysaccharides.

 

 

Properties:

• Slows and diminishes the absorption of organic compounds like bilious acid and cholesterol into the thin intestine.

• Linseed oil has lignin. This chemical is similar to human estrogen. Bacteria in the digestive system convert lignin into estrogen, which can produce antitumor characteristics and can reduce the activity of free radicals.

• Lignin has the ability to act as a phyto-estrogen, that interferes in the excessive hormonal production, binding into the receptors that carry excess hormones in the blood flow.

 

• Hercampuri (Gentianella Alborocea): Traditional Plant used since the Inca Empire. Original of the Peruvian Andes, it grows between 3500 and 4000 meters (11000 and 13000) above sea level, in the frigid climate zone of the high Punas. This is a small herb (2 in), perennial, with a twisted, grooved root and a small brown stalk. The leaves are small (0.2 to 0.4 in), straight, grow opposite each other, lanceolate and dark green. The flowers are also small (0.2 to 0.6 in), and lilac or violet in color. Its fruit is dark brown or black, of encapsulated shape with great many seeds.

 

    

Properties:

• Regulates the metabolism of fats in the body.

• Helps reduce LDL levels in the blood, supporting its transformation into bilious acids.

• Cholagogue and choleretic; it supports liver, pancreas and gallbladder functions.

• Diuretic: increases urine secretion.

 

• Microcrystalline Cellulose (Cellulosa Microcristalina): This powder is of natural origin, with a wide variety of applications in foodstuffs, agriculture, pharmaceutical and industrial. Can be used as an emulsifier agent, stabilizer, anticoagulant or deflocculant for tablets. It has great use in the pharmaceutical industry in the preparation of tablets, pills and capsules as a compression agent.

 

Properties:

• Utilized as a component of low calorie diets, as they contribute zero nutrients, and behaves like natural fiber, not having deleterious effects in the body.

• Microcrystalline cellulose has been used recently in the treatment of alkaline gastritis from duodenal-gastric bilious reflux.

 

• Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale): Traditionally the roots, leaves and flowers are utilized. This plant belongs to the asteracea family.  Found easily along the roads, meadows, prairies and especially gardens. It grows to 40 cm (16 in).   It is an opportunist plant, annual and perennial; with primary root and basal rosette; it has alternating leaves, without a differentiated peduncle.  The stalk is hollow. The flowers are hermaphrodites. The corolla has ligulae that terminate in 5 small teeth.  It flowers all year round, and its yellow flowers are harbingers of spring’s arrival. Upon maturation, the flowers form a white globe, which disperses its seeds gently with a soft blow of air.

  

Properties:

• Used in weight loss diets; used to eliminate toxins in the blood.

• Choleretic, cholagogue, mild laxative, diuretic, anti-inflammatory.

• Helps stop the formation of gallbladder stones, helping dissolve and expel them.

 

• Field Horsetail (Equisetum Arvense): Perennial herb, with long, tall, articulated stalk that reaches 60 cm (2 ft). The knots in the stalk are clearly marked and the surface between the knots is grooved lengthwise. There are two types of horsetail stalks.  The first variety grows at the beginning of spring, has an appearance similar to the asparagus, brown in color and has cones with spores in the upper part. These stalks are called fertile, and are much less resistant than the second type of stalk, the mature form of the plant, which appears in summer. These are called sterile because they cannot exercise any reproduction mechanisms. These sterile stalks are fine and branch out, presenting along their length groves, greenish in color, that resemble a tail with feathers. This plant is rich in silica and potassium; besides, it contains saponine, equisetine, pectic and gallic acids and some alkaloids like nicotine.

  

Properties:

• Its high potassium content supports the function of the heart. Its high content of silica supports the re-calcification of the bones after traumatic bone damage such as rheumatism, atherosclerosis, compound fractures, and others.

• Supports leucocyte function against infections and general immune system function.

• Helps in the absorption of phosphorous.

• Because of its re-mineralizing factors, it is used in cases of fatigue and anemia.

• Supports the maintenance of collagen (conjunctive tissue’s fundamental substance), raising the elasticity of tissue as well as increasing the body’s defense. Slows down the degenerative process.

• Diuretic, helps eliminate urea and uric acid from the body. Used in the treatment of renal or bladder affections. Used also in cases of hypertension, urolithiasis and obesity. Its potassium chloride and aluminium content are responsible for its diuretic action.

 

• Cellulose (Cellulosa): A homo-polysaccharide (a compound made of just one type of monomer), rigid, insoluble, that contains from a few to thousands of glucose units. Cellulose corresponds to the biomolecule most abundant in earth’s biomass.

Properties:

Important inclusion in human diet (dietetic fiber), because it facilitates digestion and expulsion (defecation), as well as it decreases gas formation.

  

• Hemicellulose (Hemicellulosa): A branched molecule (with ramifications), such as uric acid, that can bind to other molecules through bonds that make up the rigid wall that protects the cell from the pressure exerted upon it by the surrounding cells.

Properties:

Part of the cell wall of different vegetable tissue that covers the surface of cellulose fiber, allowing the binding of pectin.

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