From time to time a notice appears - with or without bedding - proclaiming the virtues and the wonderful capacities of some plant. Suddenly, pair and step, appear sets of ten, hundreds of specialists, users, laboratories, and all "troupe" that it follows the track of the interests you deal immediate in this area.

It was thus with ipê purple, confrei, the equinácea, gingko biloba, Erva-de-São João, and as much others that had had its days of glory, that some still keep. The ball of the time is porangaba.

To announce in irresponsible way and to describe the gotten advantages and results, without commitment with the truth, induce the risks that can be - and almost always - are potencializados by the desire of easy results and the necessity to believe immediate solutions.

Fancies and businesses to the part, some excellent questions seem to be prá who find that health is serious thing:

1. Risk of bad use: dosage inócua, toxic superdosage, negligence with some in progress treatment.

2. Acobertamento of symptoms: treatments that eliminate symptoms can hide some badly that the organism is trying to show.

3. Commercial exploration: the empolgação with the marketing artifices overestimates the results possible and induces to the payment of immensely bigger values that the actual value of the acquired product.

4. Trend to the extermínio of the plant: invariavelmente, the plants of the fashion if approach dangerously to population indices of risk to its survival with species.

5. Reliable loss in the Fitoterapia: the conclusion finishes being of the inconsistency it fitoterápico treatment.

We receive innumerable consultations on effectiveness from this plants when "they enter in fashion", to such point, that we look for to create elucidative answers that we direct to the solicitants as, for example, the one that if it relates to porangaba, that we illustrate to follow:

We could not, for a ethics question, to weave considerações on some specific commercial product. However, we can and we must guide those that porventura to desire some information that, for force of our studies and our work we will be able to make use.

In this way, it goes there!

Porangaba or cafezinho-do-weeds, more known as tea-of bugre, is a small tree with about up to 8 height m, more comumente found in the states of Minas Gerais, Goiás and Bahia.

Its scientific name is salicifolia Cordia (Cordia ecalyculata).

Plant extremely known and used traditionally for the Brazilian fitoterapia, mainly as diurético, febrifuge and circulatório stimulant.

Recently this plant has been explored using to advantage the modismos commercially "to take capsules and teas to emagrecer". The amount of superficial and errôneas information that the market liberates to also reach its purposes of venda comes growing.

Some announced products - capsules to emagrecer - are simply sprayed leves of the plant.

Few research exists on the effect of this plant. The registers are, in its majority, resultants of clinical comments, that is, of results gotten with its practical use without, however, having statistical control or analysis that validates these comments.

Recent research in Japan had identified antiviral action in the case of herpes.

Tea-of-bugre it has been used as diurético and auxiliary in the treatment against the obesidade, therefore it seems to present a reducing effect of the appetite. It is a rich plant in bitter substances and caffeine. Moreover, as already we said, it has marcante diurética action.

Therefore, porangaba (the plant) can be used as coadjuvante in a treatment to emagrecer. It observes: it can be used and as coadjuvante, that is, as one of the component item of a treatment, because it possesss characteristics that assist the process of recovery of the normal weight.

PLANT DOES NOT EXIST THAT MAKES EMAGRECER! This means that no separately taken tea will bring resulted positive in the reduction of the weight.

We wait to have contributed with its interest. It is to the will, will have doubts.

A great one I hug!