Chá de bugre products are highly commercialized as a weight loss aid in Brazil. This product is well known for its diuretic and appetite suppressant properties, besides somebody believes that it helps to prevent or reduce fatty deposits and cellulite. In Brazil, tea bags, capsules, and extracts of chá de bugre are commonly sold in pharmacies, stores, and even in the beach-front eateries and refreshment stands along Rio de Janeiro's beaches.
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Ingredients: 100% pure chá de bugre leaves (Cordia salicifolia).
Suggested Use: As dietary supplement, take 2 capsules 2-3 times daily, more willinngly 30 minutes to 1 hour prior to meals.
Overweight? Cellulite? Chá de bugre is the answer
Obesity and cellulite affect millions of people wordlwide
Obesity as well as cellulite results from several factors action, which diet isn't necessary or not only accounted for.
Obesity is a complex condition due to an bad diet, genetic factors, metabolic and hormonal impairements, psychological disorders, and sedentary way of life.
Cellulite is a disorder of hypodermis, a tissue constituted mainly by adipose cells. Generally, it's due to a degeneration of adipose tissue and impairement of its metabolic functions. This causes hypertrophy, that is an increasing of adipose cells volume, water retention, and liquid stagnancy into intercellular spaces.
The problem commonly known as cellulite is actually an impairement of connective tissue structures. Skin has lunpy, 'cottage-cheese' appearance.
Although cellulite is often linked to overweight, it hasn't as the main cause a weight problem, but genetic, hormonal, and vascular factors, besides people's constitution, stress, impair diet, vascular disorders.
It's clear then that obesity and cellulite aren't aesthetic concerns, but primarily healthy concerns.
The main step against cellulite and obesity is to strike at the root, without compromising body health and metabolism. Chá de bugre can do this.
Chá de bugre is a plant naturally growing in South America with documented cardiotonic and propelling properties. It's used as folk remedy to suppress appetite and increase diuresis. It's also believed to help preventing and/or reducing fat deposits and cellulite.
Chá de bugre can be a great adjuvant to traditional weight loss and cellulite treatments, since it aids to eat less increasing metabolism at the same time, without any side effect on the health of the heart.
Instead of its popularity in South America and Brazil, there are just a few laboratory studies in chá de bugre. The properties validated by research are cardiotonic, antiviral against Herpes simplex, and citotoxic against some cancer cells. Yet it's needed further research either to validate this preliminary data and to verify the other traditional uses of the plant as remedy to reduce fever, suppress cough, increase diuresis, heal wounds.
While waiting for furher research, chá de bugre keeps to be sold in tea bags, infusions, and tincture by refreshing stands on Rio de Janeiro's beach fronts as aid for weight loss and against cellulite.
References on Chá de bugre
Wound Healing Actions:
Saito, M. L., et al. “Morfodiagnose e identificacao cromatografica em camada delgada de chá de bugre - Cordia ecalyculata Vell." Rev. Bras. Farm. 1986; 67: 1-16.
Antimicrobial & Cytotoxic Actions:
Hayashi, K., et al. “Antiviral activity of an extract of Cordia salicifolia on herpes simplex virus type 1.” Planta Med. 1990; 56(5): 439-43.
Arisawa, M., et al. “Cell growth inhibition of KB cells by plant extracts.” Natural Medicines 1994; 48(4): 338-347.
Cardiotonic Actions:
Matsunaga, K., et al. “Excitatory and inhibitory effects of Paraguayan medicinal plants Equisetum giganteum, Acanthpspermum australe, Allophylus edlis and Cordia salicifolia on contraction of rabbit aorta and giunea-pig left atrium.” Natural Medicines 1997; 51: 478-481.
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