AFRICAN POTATO CAPSULES
African Potato Capsules are used by traditional healers in the treatment of immune system disorders, the product contains an antioxidant that helps the body against free radicals that can damage cells and cause disease.
Researchers have found that the plant sterols and sterolins, which are found in high concentrations in the African potato, increase the functioning of T-cells, which control and regulate the immune system. This increases the body’s natural resistance to disease and helps fight illnesses. Reduction in allergy symptoms has also been shown.
Its scientific name is Hypoxis hemerocallidea. But its most common name is the African wild potato.
The African wild potato contains several active ingredients that are of interest, including hypoxoside and phytochemicals. The compound hypoxoside contains an antioxidant which helps protect the body against free radicals that can damage cells and cause many diseases. These diseases include cancer, heart failure, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Advantages
South Africans, particularly traditional Zulu healers, have long used the African wild potato to treat many conditions. A few of these include:
Diabetes
Prostate disorders, like enlarged prostate and prostate cancer
Hemorrhage
Urinary tract and bladder infections
HIV and AIDS
Epilepsy
Inflammation, and conditions like edema and arthritis
Usually people take African wild potato by mouth, but sometimes in the form of an extract, supplement, or tea. And sometimes people apply it topically to help heal wounds or use it as a general immune booster.
Our African Potato is bought from local communities in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa and traditionally processed by grating and then drying in the sun before grinding and encapsulation in capsules of vegetable origin.
