Maca Root
Common Name
Standardized: maca
Botanical Name
Lepidium meyenii Walp.
Plant Family: Brassicaceae
Overview
Maca, native to the Peruvian Andes, is a food staple made into cookies, flan, smoothies, syrups, and liquor. It has a rich history of traditional use as a panacea and is referred to as 'Peruvian ginseng.' Specifically, it is prized for its adaptogenic and nutritive qualities. It was introduced to North America, Europe, and Japan in the late 1990's precipitating a stream of scientific studies.
Benefits of Maca Root
- Increase energy
- Increase strength and stamina
- Improve cognitive functioning
- Improve mental clarity and memory
- Enhances learning and mental ability
- Reduce anxiety, stress and depression
- Normalize progesterone, estrogen and testosterone
- Decrease mood swings and hot flashes
- Treat hormonal imbalance
- Menstrual relief
- Regulate hormones
- Relieve symptoms of menopause
- Regulate menstrual cycles
- Treat chronic fatigue
- Treat insomnia
- Improves sexual function in men and women
- Enhance fertility
- Treat erectile dysfunction
- As an antioxidant and anti-carcinogen
- Improve mental wellbeing
- Treat infertility
- Increase libido
- Benefit pituitary gland
- Stimulate the immune system
- Overcome physical and mental stress
- Fuel the endocrine system
- Treat exhaustion
- Improve the functioning of the circulatory system
- Make skin look younger
- Strengthen teeth and bones
- Kill bacteria and fungus
Root fresh and cooked or dried and powdered in a smoothie. Traditionally, in Peru often blended with quinoa and a variety of other ingredients.
Root dried, powdered, and encapsulated
Cooked root vegetable.
Precautions
Specific: No known precautions.
General: We recommend that you consult with a
qualified healthcare practitioner before using herbal products,
particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on any medications.
