ial Properties Comments (7)Recommend this article to a COCA LEAVES Functional properties of processed Coca Leaves Recommendationes for use of Coca Leaves Effects of consumption of Coca Beneficial effects of Leaves Coca Leaves in our Products of Coca Alkaloids of Coca Leaves Leaves Contraindications of Coca bodies The Coca Leaves in flour form to be presented in a concentrated presentation contains nutrients like alkaloids and fibre which should be consumed as a nutritional supplement. Although it appearsto work best when consumed on an empty stomach, due to warm weather some people combines it with papaya juice or other cold beverages. It can be consumed with breakfast or lunch or night work. It is preferable not to consume it at night to avoid any disturbing sleep. FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF PROCESSED COCA LEAVES Stresses its large amount of calcium contained in 100 grams of dried leaf, 2.196 mg versus 120 mg of fresh cow milk. It has as much vitamin A as carrots. In addition, B complex, B-12, which improves the assimilation of food, the nervous system and mood, and significant amounts of zinc, magnesium, potassium, among others (see Table attached). Is energetic and exciting: The energy supply comes from two sources: its 300 calories whose main source are complex carbohydrates (63 grams) and its dietary fiber (18%) by direct action and prebiotic in the colon, this energy is accompanied of increased cellular oxygenation which suggests better overcome the lack of oxygen (altitude sickness) and increase our capacity and endurance. This energy potential is enhanced by neuronal also be a stimulant that improves mood for physical and intellectual work. It is low in fat (3.5%). It contains alkaloids, they are interrelated and complement each other, behaving to say nutritionist Maritza Vera Penachio as a board of physicians join forces to overcome the multiple organ dysfunction, while developing synergy with other nutrients and foodconsumed, allowing the best use. The quality of their fiber has been studied as an important source of insoluble dietary fiber that strengthens the colon and possession of bioactive compounds that increase our defense system, also called immune. It has antioxidant to contain a combination of flavonoids, tannins, lignin and significant amounts of vitamins A, C, E and minerals (magnesium, zinc, calcium, etc.) that fight free radicals, bacteria, evil, and protect our cells from aging early and make them anti-stress and anti-carcinogenic. Important source of chlorophyll, contributes to the regeneration of the DNA. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE OF COCA LEAVES We recommend eating a teaspoon a day, but under specialist supervision, it can be consumed in bigger quantities. From experience, we would say that each person must find their proper amount. We found enough people who think a half teaspoon a day and others do well with six a day (separated by half in the morning and the other finishing lunch). In order to help the body adjust to this powerful food, it is recommended to start with a quarter teaspoon every other day and increasing to a full teaspoon by the fourth week. From then on, that amount can be taken every day, or adapted to your consumption needs. By consuming Coca, we have to increase our fluid intake, fruits and vegetables to balance the blood pH which generates acid consumption and make better the quality of their fiber. You can also incorporate a pinch of flour or lime llipta by 0.2% or about 1% of the total weight for both regulating blood pH to enhance the assimilation of its alkaloids. This too will happen if we consume the flour in hot water according to recent study by Dr. Theobald Llosa. Do not forget that this meal is highly digestible and highly concentrated in f iber and alkaloids, so it is very strong and we should only consume it as a nutritional supplement, we should not abuse its kindness. Coca flour is compatible with all foods. As a precaution, it is preferable to avoid mixing with stimulants such as caffeine. It can be added to juices, yogurt, soups, stews, sauces, etc.. And preparations are used as nutritional enriching mass to 5%. People who require a higher dose of energy support, it is recommended to put the spoon flour directly into one side of the mouth to be consumed slowly improving and achieving insalivación also a direct and continuous assimilation under the tongue. To avoid unnecessary backflow, start with a quarter of a teaspoon. You can add up to 5% llipta, lime or sodium bicarbonate to the flour if most activity is going to be physical. We have not found the time limit, provided they are consumed with caution as stated above. Some people feel better advantage by consuming the leaves (chacchar or infusion) and other meal, everyone chooses although their effects are complementary. EFFECTS OF CONSUMPTION OF COCA LEAVES Almost immediate relief from pains in muscles/joints. Increased endurance in visible form. Fixes serious problems of malnutrition and / or assimilation, particularly of vitamin B-12, anemia and calcium. Strengthens and regenerates in a relatively short time, the bones and other bony parts of the body. Start cleaning the urinary tract, allowing for quick evacuation of at least a percentage of retained urine. Improves mood and lust for life. Thanks to its fiber makes the intestines work better. Improves general digestionl. Regulates blood pressure. Regulates glucose. Regulates dopamine. Helps clean fatty liver. Regulates triglyceride and cholesterol. Combats stress. Increasing cellular oxygenation capacity, it improves extreme physical performance and gives clarity in intellectual work. Overcoming the effects of high altitude sickness. Increases immune system. Reported cases, strengthening hair and nail growth, and helps with the disappearance of blemishes and spots of old age. Also diminishing the appearance of gray hair in black roots. For several years, the psychiatrist, Dr. Theobald Llosa has been using the mate de coca (coca leaves dry powdered micro) and f lour (dried coca leaves powder micro) encapsulated special treatment as drug. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF COCA LEAF IN OUR BODIES The Coca Leaves and neoplastic diseases The Coca Leaves are an important source of antioxidants. In its fiber, contains bioactive principles such as polyphenols, of which contains more than broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, onions, lettuce, among others. It´s as much beta carotene as carrots, it is a major source of protection against cancer. It also contains condensed tannins in significant quantitieswhich are important because they protect proteins, lipids and carbohydrates from oxidative damage during the digestion. In this regard you can read the university thesis: physicochemical characterization and determination of their physical and physiological properties of Byproduct Clears Coca the Mr. Food Industry, Lourdes Documet Forger, A, 2004. Effect on stress It is difficult to see a regular user of leaves or coca flour suffering from stress or depression, two great evils of our time. In laboratory tests with an extract of Coca immediate action was found in front of a stressful situation: The antioxidant properties are mainly reflected in the increased activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and reducing the level of lipid peroxidation. Have not observed an increase in glutathione in the treatment groups, this immediate response due to SOD introduced to combat stress. In this regard you can read the university thesis: Determination of the antioxidant activity of refined extract of Coca desalonizado atomized in an experimental model of strenuous exercise Bachelor of Velásquez Piñas, William, UNSCH, Ayacucho, 2005). Effect on the liver The collected experience reveals the cleansing action of Coca on a fatty liver. We have also seen how, in the field some usual abusers coca do not suffer from a fatty liver, fibrosis or cirrhosis despite consuming alcohol of dubious quality and quantities regularly. This same curiosity led Dr. Roger Ramos Aliaga to investigate the case and found the coca leaf hepatoprotector effect,which was published in the 2006 study: Antioxidant effects and an alkaline extract of Coca leaves hepatoprotector; (which was based on his research "Metabolism of ethanol and conditions of the liver in rats" UNMSM, 2004). The abuse of alcohol and pure cocaine severely corrupts the liver and when consumed together form a hepatotoxic called cocaetileno. However, alcohol is consumed with the Coca Leaf, a phenomenon happens because, as Dr. Ramos Aliaga said: A high antioxidant value of the leaf extract of coca, as opposed to synthesized cocaine, suggests that other components of the natural sheet such as vitamins A, C, E, tannins, flavonoids, etc., have antioxidant properties that would have contributed to this phenomenon. Efecto en el sistema digestivo Effect on the digestive system The fiber has three components Coca-known: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. It contains a considerable amount of cellulose fiber, significantly higher than that of wheat bran, this cellulose, accelerates intestinal transit and stool form. Its fiber hemicellulose strengthens the intestinal flora producing more volatile fatty acids. Their number is slightly higher than wheat bran and considerably higher than that of vegetables such as spinach, cabbage and lettuce. The third compound, lignin, is an antioxidant that prevents the release of free radicals and has a greater ability to absorb fat. Allows binding of iron with zinc. Its content is greater than that of wheat bran, artichokes, spinach, lettuce and chard. Finally, consumption of fiber helps to increase good cholesterol PRODUCTS OF COCA LEAVES CocaHoney, 100% NATURAL ENERGY Nutraceutical is a product composed of 100% natural coca flour, honey Oxapampa 100% natural, enriched with a touch of cinnamon. Used as a functional,nutritional supplement due to its limited quantities by bars. Because of its high assimilation overcomes short or medium term dysfunctions due to poor nutrition. Excellent invigorating source, it provides long lasting energy (without causing sleepless nights insomnia) thanks to its rich complex of carbohydrates and dietary fiber. Also important source of micronutrients (remove hunger and malnutrition without causing loss of appetite) to contain amounts of vitamins and minerals above the daily requirements. Why consume CocaHoney? Food is highly digestible and has very special medicinal properties. Stressing its large amount of calcium, vitamin A, B complex, including the low B-12, significant amounts of zinc, magnesium, potassium, amongst others, it is good for your nutrition. It is energy. It contains 297 calories per 100 gr 100% natural, glucose and fructose containing the honey is considered one of the most nutritious foods known for its vitamins, minerals and sugars easily digested. It contains several alkaloids, they are interrelated and complement each other to overcome the multiple organ dysfunction. For honey contains all the vitamins dieticians or nutritionists consider necessary for health: group B, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, biotin piridonxina and addition of ascorbic acid or vitamin C. The quality of the fiber, an important source of dietary fiber and insoluble bioactive compounds possess enhance our immune system. The honey gives it a very important amount of probiotics to strengthen our body against different diseases. ALKALOIDS OF COCA LEAVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Atropine or scopolamine (C17 H33 N O3): Reduces tremor and rigidity of Parkinson´s disease, depressed the basal ganglia, reduced salivation, bronchial and gastric increases heart rate, mydriatic (dilates the pupil). Benzoiloxitropina: Hydrolyses inulin, is invigorating, optimizes the use of carbohydrates, optimizes the functioning of the pancreas which is the regulating weight. Benzoin: Solves problems of gastritis and ulcers, accelerating the formation of muscle cells. Cocaine (C17 H31 N O4): The methyl ester of benzoyl-ecgonine, a crystallizable alkaloid that inhibits nerve conduction, hence the property as a local anesthetic, cocaine alkaloid natural and associated rising acidity of the blood and metabolize uric acid, urea making, why and silicates combined with salt, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis. Cocamina (C15 H12 N O2): Is a non-crystallizable alkaloid, highly volatile, which acts as a sedative. Conine (C8 H15 N): is an analgesic, which acts directly on the nervous system, being a good antidepressant. Cuscohigna: Has properties of pectin, anti diarrhea and digestive, helps eliminate free radicals, is an antioxidant. Ecgonine (C9 H15 N O3): Is a derivative of atropine with the carboxyl at C-3 of pyridine, has properties to metabolize fats and carbohydrates, why the coca chewers maintain their slender body and constitution physically strong and healthy is a good regulator weight and improves the functioning of the pancreas, creating a balance enzyme. Erhitroxina: With properties similar to the globulin, which increases synergistic properties of the immune system, keeping in balance the white and red blood cells, increases in blood cells and hemoglobin is cardiotonic and lung. Higrina: It stimulates the salivary gland, is an excellent tonic for the larynx and throat, increases oxygenation to the lungs, avoiding the high altitude sickness, or imbalance of oxygen on high and dry throat. Pyrydina (C9 H5 N): Accelerates the formation and functioning of the brain, hence the coca, its composition so complex, increases the volume of blood supply to the apophysis, resulting in improved overall body. Quinoline (C9 H7 N): Help to fix the tooth enamel, it combines well with vitamin A, phosphorus and calcium, preventing tooth decay. Tropacocaína: It antitumor and antineoplastic. Reserpine: alkaloid hypotensive and calming, cause release of catecholamine and serotonin, improving kidney function, acting as a regulator of blood pressure, removes fatigue and thirst. CONTRAINDICATIONS OF COCA
Rational consumption as we recommend, we have found no contraindication to date. Just as a precaution the use of coca flour should be small at the beginning starting with a quarter teaspoon. Studies on pregnant women have not been studied. In some communities in the central highlands abusers have seen no problem. Friends and relatives have not felt pregnant negative effects to the consumption of this flour. Hyperactive children must detox first and start with coca tea or fortified foods and then gradually with flour, consuming the tip of the spoon. In this case, it is essential to accompany this with a total dietary change and the elimination of processed foods that contain chemical additives. People with heart disease, heart affected, should limit their consumption of coca tea. Bedridden and infirm people can start their tea consumption and later move on to some flour or chewable leaves. In all these individual cases, caution must be avoided by drinking coca with lime llipta, baking soda or boiled to avoid increasing heart rate and the extra energy as the case may be counterproductive. It is always recommended to consult your doctor before use. According to extensive research
MATE DE COCA:
- CONTAINS MORE PROTEINS (19.9%) THAN MEAT (19.4%)
- FAR MORE CALCIUM (2,191%) THAN CONDENSED MILK
- RICHER IN VITAMIN B-1 (276%) THAN FRESCH CARROTS
- SATISFIED DIETARY ALLOWANCE FOR CALCIUM, IRON, OSPHOROUS, VITAMIN A, B AND E.
PHYSICAL EFFECTS
The physical effects of MATE DE COCA are as follows
INCREASED STAMINA.
ABILITY TO GO LONG PERIODS OF TIME WITHOUT FOOD.
BLOCKED SENSE OF FATIGUE AND COLD.
DECREASED NEED FOR SLEEP.
MOOD ELEVATION.
MATE DE COCA is a traditional remedy for: - ALTITUDE OR MOUNTAIN SICKNESS - STRESS (excellent!!) - TREATING GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS. - ALLEVIATING IRRITATION AND INFECTION OF THEVOCAL CORDS AND LARYNX - PREVENTING VERTIGO. - ;REGULATING ARTERIAL PRESSURE AND THE METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES. - ALLEVIATING DIARREA. - IMPROVING SEXUAL PROWESS. - RELIEVING COLDS, BRUISES, SORE JOINTS, MUSCLES. - SWOLLEN FEET AND HEADACHES.
Coca leaves can provide a caffeine-like boost. They're made into pasta and cookies. And they're chewed all across the Andes.
But the leaves can also be turned into cocaine, which is why a United Nations treaty calls for the eradication of all coca plants and for an end to the practice of chewing the leaves.
That doesn't sit well with Bolivian President Evo Morales, a member of the indigenous Aymara group and a former coca grower. Morales claims the U.N. treaty is racist and outdated and is lobbying to remove the provision on coca leaves.
He and others claim that demonizing coca is misguided -- akin to frowning on barley because it can be distilled into whisky.
"If this is a drug, then you should throw me in jail," Morales said as he held up a cluster of coca leaves then popped them into his mouth during a U.N. meeting on drugs in Vienna in 2009.
Back in 1961, the U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs classified the coca leaf as a dangerous narcotic, putting it in the same league as cocaine and heroin. But the decision was based on a much-cricized study published in 1950 by a U.N. commission.
Revealing a certain degree of racism, commission head Howard B. Fonda told an interviewer at the time: "The daily, inveterate use of coca leaves by chewing ... not only is thoroughly noxious and therefore detrimental, but also is the cause of racial degeneration ... and of the decadence that visibly shows in numerous Indians."
Since then the commission's findings have been debunked. A World Health Organization study in 1995 determined that chewing coca has no negative health effects and could have some potential benefits. For example, the leaves contain calcium and other minerals and vitamins.
Morales' quest to amend the U.N. treaty is largely symbolic since chewing coca is legal in Peru and Bolivia. Still, proponents say the change would remove the stigma from coca and enhance the market for a growing range of natural products made with coca leaves.
At a Lima bakery, owner Manuel Seminario supervises the production of pasta, cookies and cakes made with a green flour consisting of ground-up coca leaves. He also produces an energy drink made of barley, honey and coca leaves.
"This could be a natural alternative to Red Bull," Seminario said as sipped a mug of the thick green beverage. "It's better than ginseng or coffee. The world needs this."
Even the Peruvian government is profiting from coca.
Although Peruvian authorities are attempting to roll back coca cultivation to strike a blow against drug traffickers, a government-owned business, called ENACO, buys and sells coca leaves and produces coca tea.
But for now, coca leaf products can only be sold domestically because the 1961 U.N. treaty also bans their export. Seminario, the baker, believes the Morales amendment could be the first step toward legalizing coca leaf exports.
Among U.N. member states, there is wide backing for switching tacks on coca policy. But the change requires unanimous support and the U.S. administration opposes the Morales amendment. A statement released in January by the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia said Washington's position "is based on the importance of maintaining the integrity of the 1961 Convention, which is an important tool for the global fight against drug trafficking."
The five other U.N. members opposed to the amendment are Sweden, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark and Germany. One of their concerns is that giving coca the U.N.'s stamp of approval would serve to legitimize coca farmers who sell their leaves to drug traffickers.
Peruvian economist Hugo Cabieses points out that just a tiny fraction of the 300,000 tons of coca leaf grown each year in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia is used for chewing or food products. The rest is mixed with gasoline, uric acid and other toxic chemicals to make cocaine.
For all of Morales' efforts, the number of hardcore coca chewers may be diminishing as highland Indians migrate to the cities and give up traditional practices, said Alejandro Vassilaqui, who heads CEDRO, a Peruvian anti-drug organization. "Each day less people chew the coca leaf because young people leave the Andean regions and they do not carry the custom with them anymore," he said.
But coca leaf products are also winning new converts. The website for the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia recommends coca tea to help relieve altitude sickness and the hot drink is served at tourist hotels throughout Peru and Bolivia.
"I have not drunk a cup of coffee since I've been here," said Jerry Borscheid, a retired Teamster from Minnesota who was visiting Peru for the first time. Holding up a cup of coca tea, he said: "It's been this every morning."
Borscheid considered bringing a box of coca tea back home but ruled out the idea when he learned it was illegal in the United States. "If I get caught in the airport, they could arrest me, right?" he said. "I don't want to chance it." Coca leaves provide an energy boost, when chewed or consumed in tea. They're used to treat headaches, toothaches, and intestinal cramps, among other things. "Hard" drugs - e.g. "heroin" and "cocaine" -- have evoked great fears, leading people to advocate or acquiesce to more repressive and expensive drug laws and drug law enforcement, as if these molecules were necessarily pernicious. Yet prior to prohibition, opiates and cocaine were widely used as safely as aspirin and caffeine are now. Because we are so conditioned to react to the powder forms of these drugs, we forget that these more direct modes of ingestion -- sniffing, smoking and injecting -- were formerly a relatively rare phenomenon. Prior to the twentieth century's "war on drugs," most people using these drugs took them in dilute form, whether as raw plant material, or plant preparation of comparable potency. Such plants and their popular preparations, were widely recognized medicinal agents, worldwide. These substances have long and positive histories predating their criminalization by U.S. federal statute via the 1914 Harrison "Tax" Act and successive laws, and were used throughout the medical community as effective, cheap, and safe treatments for a variety of ailments. Opium poppies have been taken medicinally for thousands of years, taken topically, smoked (and even brewed as a tea, as suggested in Hogshire's "Opium for the Masses.") "Cocaine" -- or more accurately, Coca just had many uses. The Extra Pharmacopoeia (the British counterpart to the U.S. Pharmacopoeia) cited Coca as a "nervine and muscular tonic, preventing waste of tissue, appeasing hunger and thirst, relieving fatigue, and aiding free respiration ... useful in various diseases of the digestive and respiratory organs.... " Meanwhile, the Wine of Coca, , became the most widely praised plant preparation of the time. 's creator, Angelo Mariani was hailed by Pope Leo XIII as a "benefactor of humanity" for making Coca available around the world- after 40 years of Coca wine distribution." All of this of course, prior to prohibition. Any honest program of harm reduction in drug use must go beyond the narrow-minded discussion of today's "hard drug problems": heroin and cocaine hydrochloride, to look at Opium and Coca, to reveal the drug war's most intense effects upon drug abuse -- shifting markets to the infinitely more dangerous concentrated substances, while the natural forms are virtually forgotten.
Along with Coca leaf, Opium was outlawed by the so-called Harrison "Tax" Act of 1914, which aimed at the issue of "habit-forming" drugs, banned the citizen's right to purchase or possess Opium and Coca, or any of their various components like morphine or refined cocaine. This prohibition effectively stopped the trade in the plant products, while making the trade in potent white powder derivatives - heroin and cocaine hydrochloride -- immensely profitable.
By shifting the entire "coca derivatives" market from Coca tea and Coca Wine "" towards crack, the war on drugs cruelly betrays the public's concerns over the problems of crime and drug abuse.
Revelations such as these suggest that re-legalizing Coca's international trade would be immensely beneficial from a public health standpoint. Indeed, Coca's historic use as a Tobacco substitute or "cure", along with the government's interesting concerns about this, as illustrated by such government publications as the United States Department of Agriculture's 1910 Habit-forming Agents: their indiscriminate sale and use a threat to the public welfare, in conjunction with their relative health effects, make our "drug war" exceptionally galling.
Medically, economically and socially, the situation surrounding the Coca plant is unjustifiable. Respected medical researchers suggest that the leaves of Coca offer interesting medical benefits as an effective and relatively safe medicine and stimulant. Dr. Andrew T. Weil, a proponent of Coca as an alternative to Coffee, particularly for people suffering Gastro-intestinal tract problems, noted in a recent magazine interview that Coca is "very good for any type of stomach or intestinal disorder. It stabilizes blood sugar, treats motion sickness, [and] has a relaxing effect upon the larynx for people who are speakers or singers. It also could be used as an aid to weight loss, because you can chew coca instead of eating a meal and use the energy to exercise. I think it could definitely be useful as a treatment to get people off of cocaine [hydrochloride and sulfate]." Coca's use in treating cocaine addiction-- akin to the use of methadone with regard to heroin abuse - is advocated by specialists such as Dr. Jorge Hurtado of the International Coca Research Institute in Bolivia.
In 1994, after two years of research in 19 countries, a group of well-respected investigators concluded that coca leaf chewing is not addictive. They also found that most cocaine users consume very little of the drug and experience few serious problems. The results were summarized in a March 1995 press release.
The U.S. government did not tolerate this, and would bully W.H.O. to suppress these portions of the study by threatening to withhold funds. In May 1995, according to W.H.O.'s records, the U.S. representative to WHO, Neil Boyer: "took the view that the study on cocaine...indicates that [WHO's] program on substance abuse was headed in the wrong direction" and that "if WHO activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches, funds for the relevant programs should be curtailed." The full results of the study were never released.
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