Indian Star Powder

Indian Star (Uncaria rhynchophylla) Powder made from ground leaves and fruits

What is Indian Star?

The "Indian Star," botanically known as Uncaria rhynchophylla, may appear almost prehistoric at first glance with its greenish-fleshy leaves and hook-shaped appendages. Yet its true value lies within, as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long recognized. Thanks to Stephen Harrod Buhner, this healing plant is also gaining increasing attention in the Western world.

This unusual climbing plant belongs to the family of Uncaria lianas and is especially known in Japan and China as "Gouteng." It prefers dense thickets, using trees to wind around and climb.

The grasping organs with which Gouteng holds onto trees are of crucial importance in TCM. That is why we use exclusively the claws of Indian Star for our products. As always, we rely on 100% natural ingredients from organic cultivation, free from chemicals.

Traditional use and new findings

Traditional Chinese Medicine uses Indian Star to calm liver heat and regulate wind. According to TCM, a disturbance in liver energy can lead to inner restlessness, irritability, and sleep disorders, while an excess of wind can cause increased mucus formation, particularly in the nerves, which in the long term may lead to nerve damage.

In the Western world, Indian Star is gaining increasing importance, particularly due to the attention given by Stephen Harrod Buhner in his book "Healing Lyme Naturally." Buhner emphasizes the neurological and anti-inflammatory properties of Indian Star, especially in connection with neuroborreliosis.

The valuable constituents of Indian Star include hirsutine, hirsuteine, rhynchophylline, isorhynchophylline, corynoxeine, isocorynoxine, tannins, and flavonoids.

Ingredients

Indian Star (Uncaria rhynchophylla) from the grasping organs "claws" of the liana

Note

We offer the powder as a botanical raw material (food grade) without any intended use.