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Product Information >Camu Camu

Camu Camu

Wildcrafted Rumberry (Camu-Camu) – Wildcrafted in South America, rumberry is one of the world’s richest sources of vitamin C. The rumberry fruit has a surprising range of health-promoting effects including strengthening the immune system – especially against viruses - and maintaining healthy gums, eyes, skin, and connective tissue.

It has documented properties such as an Astringent, antioxidant, emollient and nutritive. Its components include: ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, calcium, iron, leucine, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, protein, riboflavin, serine, thiamin, valine.

Amazonian rainforest communities are sharing their Camu Camu berries with you while saving their homeland from the destructive practice of clear-cutting. A forest of Camu Camu is worth much more then the amount to be gained from cutting down the forest and replacing it with cattle. These communities now have the opportunity to create a sustainable economy based upon their ancient tradition of wildcrafting Camu Camu berries.

Myrciaria dubia (Camu-Camu) is the name of a bush which grows in the Amazonian rain forest of Peru and produces a fruit with the same name that contains powerful phytochemicals with health benefits, including the amino acids serine, valine, and leucine, and more Vitamin C than any other known plant in the world. The camu-camu fruit has a surprising range of therapeutic effects and can be energizing, mood-lifting and highly effective in strengthening the immune system.

The Camu-Camu fruit is about the size of a large grape and has a purplish red skin with a yellow pulp. Because Camu-Camu is in a food form, with bioflavanoids and phytochemicals, evidence suggests that it is far more effective, milligram for milligram, than synthetic Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), even Ester C. Camu-Camu seedlings are available free of charge from the Peruvian government to communities of native people who are rain-forest dwellers for them to plant and to tend. It takes four to five years for the Camu-Camu bush to bear fruit.

Some extraordinary properties of this Amazon rainforest fruit are described by Gary Null, Ph.D., a nationally known nutritionist and researcher. In his Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing, (1998), Null lists disease conditions and the herbs that have been found effective for their health promoting properties in reference to specific organ/system weaknesses and problems. In discussing the holistic treatment of depression, he lists 19 plants containing chemical compounds with antidepressant properties, in order of potency. Camu-Camu is #2 on his list. Null’s assessment of Camu-Camu has proven to be correct although the Camu-Camu fruit as such has hardly been studied at all. Vitamin C appears to provide nutritional support for the brain to optimize its own mood balancing chemistry. Additionally, published research suggests that Vitamin C supports an increased serotonin level in the brain. Some health care practitioners have reported that patients who took Camu-Camu had relieved depression and anxiety, and they have weaned some of their patients off pharmaceutical anti-depressants. There are no side effects, such as photo-sensitivity or gastrointestinal problems, and it can be used safely in combination with pharmaceutical antidepressants.

There have been no reports of its interference with the effectiveness of any pharmaceutical drugs. All forms of the herpes virus dormant at the base of the spine and become active when the immune system is stressed beyond its ability to respond effectively against pathogens. Common stressors include emotional upsets, other illnesses, prescription drugs, insufficient rest, poor diet, menstrual periods, vaginal yeast infections, and too much sunlight on the skin. Genital herpes is usually transmitted sexually. The principal anti-viral pharmaceutical medicine is Acyclovir® which has unpleasant side effects in some people. The herpes virus takes a number of different forms and is widespread today as a public health problem in the United States. More than 50% of the U.S. population gets cold sores, which is the result of the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1). Many people also suffer from shingles, which is a remanifestation of the chicken pox virus in adulthood in a new form. The Epstein-Barr virus is a common form of the herpes virus which may linger in the body for years, raising the total viral load which the body must combat. Yet another form of the herpes virus is genital herpes which is caused by the herpes simplex virus 2. In total, more than 80% of the U.S. population suffers from some kind of herpes infection. Null lists 19 plants which contain anti-herpetic phytochemicals. The plant with the largest amount of these phyto-chemicals is Camu-Camu.

The Camu-Camu fruit has a surprising range of medicinal effects as measured both by traditional use and by quantity of a variety of phytochemical compounds which experimentally have demonstrated therapeutic effects. Dr. James Duke retired chief botanist for the U.S.Dept.of Agriculture. In a comparative study of hundreds of botanicals, ranked in order of effectiveness for various health conditions, Camu-Camu was ranked among hundreds of herbs as follows: antimutagenic - No. 4; anti-viral -No.6; anti-oxidant - No.4; asthma - No.1; atherosclerosis - No.1; cataracts - No.1; colds - No.1; depression - No.2; edema - No.1; gigivitis-peridontal disease-No.1; glaucoma - No.1; hepatitis - No.1; infertility - No.1; migraine-cluster headaches - No.1; osteoarthritis - No.1; Painkiller - No.1; Parkinson's disease - No.1

Natural Zing offers Camu Camu powder in 100 gram bags.

Warnings: Do not take while pregnant. Consult a health practitioner and a Professional Clinical Herbalist before undertaking any herbal treatments.

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