Maca Herbs

Maca is a root-like vegetable shaped like a radish that grows high in the Andes mountains. Maca is well adapted to the extreme weather conditions such as intense sunlight, freezing temperatures, and violent winds that are found at these locations. It is a low growing plant with scalloped leaves that can often go unnoticed in a field. The Maca root has been used for about two thousand years for its nutritional and medicinal properties.

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Maca Herbs As A Food

To the Andean Indians, Maca herbs is a valuable commodity. Because so little else grows in the region, Maca herbs is often traded with communities at lower elevations for other staples like rice, corn, and beans. The dried roots can be stored for up to seven years. Native Peruvians have used Maca herbs since before the time of the Inca's for both nutritional and medicinal purposes.

Maca Herbs History

Benefits of Maca Herbs

Maca herbs is growing in world popularity due to its energizing effects, fertility enhancement, and aphrodisiac qualities. Other traditional uses include Maca herbs ability to increase energy levels, stamina and endurance in athletes, promote mental clarity, help with menstrual irregularities, and menopausal problems such as hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, loss of sexual desire and PMS.

Maca for Women's Health

Women experiencing the irregular menses associated with PMS and perimenopause are now taking Maca herbs  to reduce cramps, bleeding and fatigue. The natural nutrients in maca herbs help restore natural hormone levels in women. Unlike hormone drugs, which are basically artificial hormones, Maca root acts totally different in your body. It stimulates your own natural hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands.  Maca herbs has been known to ease the body and help assist with stress and help balance the hormonal levels naturally thus reducing and in many cases eliminating the hot flashes.

Maca herbs as a fatigue-fighter and general tonic to counter lethargy, memory loss, and other ills that can result from depleted energy stores. Recent analyses indicate that the root is rich in calcium, protein, iron, phosphorus, fiber, and mineral salts--all nutrients that may have been in short supply in diets of another era. Men and women with low libido feel an increase in sexual desire, and men with erectile problems notice greatly improved sexual function.

Specifically, Maca herbs may help to:

• Promote mental clarity
• Increase energy levels
• Improve physical performance
• Relieve menstrual irregularities such as PMS
• Relieve menopausal problems such as:
• Hot flashes,
• Fatigue,
• Night sweats,
• Mood swings,
• Loss of sexual desire,
• Insomnia and perimenopausal problems

As an herbal supplements, the root of Maca herbs is used in dried or powdered form and in capsules and tablets. Since Maca herbs is a food, it can be consumed in relatively high doses. Dried or powdered Maca herbs can be used in drinks or sprinkled on food, and it is available in capsules and tablets as well.