Guarana powder 350 g (Paullinia cupana)

Guarana is strongly energetistic extract tropical plants tilled in Brazil and similarly how coffe contains caffeine.

The name guaraná comes from its intense use for centuries by the Guaraini Indians.

Plant native of the Amazon, especially the regions of Parintins and Manaus .
This is a climbing and ramified tree, with branches of up to 10 meters in length. It produces round fruits, with an intense red color in bunches.

Its reproduction is done by semesters. Today it is cultivated in several Brazilian states and in foreign countries.

Guaraná has been studied for decades by Brazilian and foreign scientists. Studies began in 1940 by the French and the Germans.
After being dried by the sun, its skin opens, exposing the round white and black seeds that resemble the human eye.

When dry, they are toasted by the fire and grinded like cocoa.
After its powder is mixed with a little water, it's smashed onto bamboo buds, put out to dry and transform into toletes that are scraped with língua seca de pirarucu .
Its powder is consumed mixed with fresh water by infusion.

MEDICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Because it obtains stimulating substances, it is consumed by millions of people as a natural energy drink.
It contains enough caffeine to make up 8% of its weight.
Fitoquímicos studies have detected the presence of starch, protein, tannin, caffeine, theophylline, resin, málico acid, saponin, catequina, epicatequina and allantoin.

Its consume stimulates and strengthens the circulatory, cardiac and nervous system. It is also utilized as a powerful anti- diarrheic, anti-fatigue, prevents precocious aging and obesity, arterioscleroses, flatulencies, dyspepsia and d etoxifier of the blood.

LEGEND

There is a legend among the Indians in the Amazon that guaraná sprouted from the eyes of a little boy, son of Onhiámuáçabe.

Onhiámuáçabe knew about every plant and its use. As soon as the boy learned how to talk and walk, he started to want the fruits of an enchanted chestnut tree that his mother planted in Noçoquem (a sacred place where rocks talk). This place was under the control of his uncles. One day when the boy was enjoying the fruits of a guaraná tree, the animals of the forest told his uncle and they asked for him to be murdered. His mother, gaining notice of the news, ran to the spot but it was too late. She then buried her eyes and watered them with her tears. After this