Jergon sacha has become very popular in Peruvian herbal medicine where it is being used for many purposes.* For more complete information on this powerful plant of the rainforest, please see the Plant Database File on Jergon Sacha.
Traditional Uses:* for snakebite; for viral infections (HIV, hepatitis, whooping cough, influenza, parvovirus, and others); for upper respiratory problems (cough, bronchitis, asthma, etc.); for spider, bee, scorpion, and other venomous insect bites; as a topical wound healer
Raintree Nutrition's Jergon Sacha extract is made with 40% alcohol to extract and preserve the active ingredients found in this amazing plant. The extraction methods used provides the equivalent of approximately 600 mgs of Jergon Sacha root per milliliter of extract - resulting in a highly potent concentrated extract rich in active and beneficial phytochemicals which occur naturally in this plant and unconditionally guaranteed. Raintree also offers jergon sacha in 500 mg capsules.
Wildharvesting this important rainforest plant is not achieved sustainably in the wild since the root must be harvested. This is why Raintree has not offered this plant in the past. Raintree's new supply of Jergon Sacha root comes from the high jungle of Peru where new organic cultivation programs with medicinal plants are replacing old coca plantations and providing new sources of income for poor farmers on their existing lands. Click here to see the pictures of this cultivation program.
Ingredients: 100% pure jergon sacha root (Dracontium loretense) extracted in distilled water and 40% ethanol. This product is non-irradiated and non-fumigated. It is organically grown in the Peruvian Amazon without any pesticides or fertilizers.
Suggested Use: Take 60 drops (2 ml) of the extract 2 or more times daily.
Contraindications: Not to be used during pregnancy or while breast-feeding.
Drug Interactions: None known.
A 2 ounce bottle is $21.95 each
Or buy 3 bottles for $20.95 each
Or buy 6 bottles for $18.95 each
Third-Party Published Research*
This Raintree product has not been the subject of any clinical research.
All available third-party research on jergon sacha can be found at PubMed.
A partial listing of the published research on jergon sacha is shown below:
Antivenin Actions: Nunez, V., et al. “Neutralization of the edema-forming, defibrinating and coagulant effects of Bothrops asper
venom by extracts of plants used by healers in Colombia.” Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 2004; 37(7): 969-77.
Otero, R., et al. Snakebites and ethnobotany in the Northwest region of Colombia: Part II: neutralization of
lethal and enzymatic effects of Bothrops atrox venom.” J. Ethnopharmacol. 2000 Aug; 71(3): 505-11.
Antimicrobial Actions: Kloucek, P., “Antibacterial screening of some Peruvian medicinal plants used in Calleria District.” J.
Ethnopharmacol. 2005 Jun; 99(2): 309-12.
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