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Q: How can you enhance the antioxidant properties of a good diet with fresh fruits and vegetables?

A: According to some impressive research, by supplementing your diet with Cat’s Claw Tea or an alcohol-liquid extract. Research published in the Journal of Food Chemistry suggests that Cat’s Claw( Uncaria tomentosa) possesses higher antioxidant properties than the fruits, vegetables, grains and other medicinal plants which were also tested. The Cat’s Claw was tested in
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Is it safe to combine taking antibiotics with Whole World Botanicals’ herbal products?

Q: I am 64 years old and have a urinary tract infection (UTI). I went to see my doctor and he put me on the antibiotic Cipro®. I am taking several of Whole World Botanicals’ products (our whole family just loves them), including Royal Maca (one tsp. daily), Royal Camu (one tsp. daily) and Cat’s
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Herbs to help a neck injury and to relieve pain?

Q: I suffered a compression injury in a car accident a few months ago and am in constant pain from the neck spasms I’ve developed. I was told that my brain stem has inflammation. I am starting cranial-sacral therapy next week, but am wondering if you have any herbal products that could be helpful for
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The Danger of Daily Aspirin (Feb. 24, 2010) in Yahoo News

An article entitled “The Danger of Daily Aspirin” (Feb. 24, 2010) in Yahoo News, publicizes the new recommendation from public health officials that many middle-aged people taking a daily baby aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes stop this practice. Last year more than 44 million packages of low-dose aspirin marketed for heart protection were
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Q: How can you enhance the antioxidant properties of a good diet with fresh fruits and vegetables?

A: According to some impressive research, by supplementing your diet with Cat’s Claw Tea or an alcohol-liquid extract. Research published in the Journal of Food Chemistry suggests that Cat’s Claw( Uncaria tomentosa) possesses higher antioxidant properties than the fruits, vegetables, grains and other medicinal plants which were also tested. The Cat’s Claw was tested in
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Scientific Breakthrough on Preventing the Formation of Amyloid Plaque

Large amounts of amyloid plaque have been found in the brains of all Alzheimer’s patients when an autopsy has been performed. This plaque is called beta-amyloid protein and referred to by scientists as “Abeta.” In the current search for anti-Alzheimer’s Disease drugs, researchers have been intensively studying what they call “amyloidism,” with a focus on
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How Cat’s Claw (Uña de Gato) offers powerful immune system support: It helps the body increase the production of lymphocytes, white blood cells, and increase its repair of DNA.

Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) is a highly researched botanical.  In the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, February, 2000, author Y. Sheng and his research team published the results of their studies on the immune system of rats and human males in which they were given a water-soluble extract of Cat’s Claw (in other words, a strong tea),
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Q: Alcohol does not agree with me. Do you make Cat’s Claw without alcohol?

A: Whole World Botanicals’ Royal Cat’s Claw Liquid Extract is double-extracted, with both alcohol and with water. However, we also make available Cat’s Claw Tea (shredded bark) in a container and you may make the Tea, just as the native people do when they have an ailment.  Also, we have pieces of bark, about two
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Q: Is it really true that the only good Cat’s Claw (Uña de Gato in Spanish), botanical name Uncaria tomentosa, is one in which the TOA’s (tetra-oxindol alkaloids) have been removed and only the POA’s (pentacyclic alkaloids) remain in the extract?

One company is claiming that this is true and of course this company is the only source of this patented product. A: When the company you mention made this claim, we consulted the plant pharmacologists with whom we work in Peru to give their opinion on this research.  They were aware of this company’s claim
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