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Hoodia Cactus

by: Eric Morris

Most of the journalists used the name, �the African Hoodia Cactus when they
learned about the hunger-suppressing plant from South Africa. What they meant
was Hoodia Gordonii�, found wild in the Kalahari Desert. It does not belong to
the cactus genus.

Hoodia Gordonii is a succulent. The Genus is Trichocaulon and the family
name is Asclepiadaceae. It is a grayish brown plant with ten or more tentacles,
resembling a long cucumber with spikes. The height of the plant can be 18
inches to 6 feet. It is bitter-tasting, with an unpleasant smell.

The San Bushmen have been using this plant for thousands of years as a
hunger suppressant while on long hunts. CSIR of South Africa took a patent on
the plant as a weight-loss aid and sold it to a British pharmaceutical company,
Phytopharm. The plant grows only in a desert climate and takes about 5 to 7
years to mature. Attempts to grow them in China, Mexico and the USA failed.

Phytopharm successfully conducted clinical trials on the plant and combined
with Pfizer of the USA to produce P 57, the active ingredient of Hoodia,
synthetically. After the attempt failed, because it was uneconomical, they
arranged for large plantations in South Africa to cultivate the plant. They have
tied up with Unilever, a British MNC and food giant, to test and market the
product by 2008.
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