Hoodia Gordonii Plant

Hoodia gordonii plant grows native to South Africa, deep in the Kalahari Desert where it has been harvested for use by the Sans Bushmen tribe for its therapeutic and medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Some uses by the Sans Bushmen have included using the plant for: hemorrhoids, hypertension, diabetes, abdominal cramps, and more.

Primarily, however, the hoodia plant has been used to quell hunger pains and thirst by the Sans Bushmen. They are a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe that consumes the plant while on long hunting trips when they are hard pressed to find food or water for prolonged periods of time.

For them eating hoodia gordonii, for all practical purposes, is probably a matter of life and death, not just one of alleviating discomforting biological pains. If you are hunting for food and consumed with hunger and thirst, you would most likely be a great deal less efficient in your ability to stalk and kill prey due to these urgent needs distracting you.

Quelling these urges by using the hoodia gordonii cactus plant for the Sans Bushmen has probably played no small role in their survival for thousands of years.

Hoodia Gordonii Cactus Plant

Although most people won't care one way or the other, technically there is no such thing as a hoodia gordonii cactus plant.

From a scientific perspective, it is not a cactus at all. It only resembles a cactus. It is actually classified as a succulent.

When looking at a picture of hoodia gordonii plant, it's easy to see why people think it's a type of cactus.

It's important to know that you can't buy the actual hoodia plant to grow it, and then consume it as the Sans Bushmen do.

This is simply because it is protected by the South African government and it requires a special license to be able to import it even for commercial reasons, much less for private use which would be prohibited. In fact, even being granted a license to import it for commercial sale is allegedly very hard to obtain, even if it benefits South Africa and the Sans Bushmen economically because it is so rare and has a long cultivation time frame.

It's a limited supply commodity, bottomline. You can get some genuine hoodia gordonii in supplements but you must make sure you are buying it from a company with proof of certification. Otherwise you are most likely buying product advertised as hoodia gordonii plant but doesn't even contain any.

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Hoodia Gordonii Plant

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