Wild Yam (6% Diosgenin)

History:

Wild Yam (not to be mistaken for our Thanksgiving sweet yam) is a hardy, twining plant with long, knotty, matted, contorted, ligneous rootstocks. This climbing perennial may grow to a height of twenty feet and bears pointed, heart-shaped, ovate, hairy leaves and drooping green-yellow flowers that appear in summer. The plant thrives in rich, well-drained soil in sun or partial shade and may be found mostly in moist woods and along roads in North America, with many other varieties distributed throughout Central and South America, Africa and many parts of Asia; and the long, branched, crooked woody roots are used for so many therapeutic applications that they are almost too numerous to list. Wild Yams are rich in natural phytohormones that were the original (and at one time, the only) source material from which birth control pills and cortisones were derived; and until the hormone was synthesized in 1970, Wild Yam was the sole source of diosgenin. In Mexico, Indian women utilized the Wild Yam for female health; and in the United States, it also played an important part in many herbal preparations, where it was employed for muscular, urinary tract, digestive, but most notably, women's health. Diosgenin does not exist freely in Wild Yam but rather as the steroid saponins, dioscin and gracillin, and converted by the human body into progesterone and other steroid hormones via dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Many species contain steroidal saponins, which are used in the preparation of steroids by the pharmaceutical industry. Some of the constituents in Wild Yam include a high steroidal saponin content, beta-carotene,, starch, tannin, calcium, chromium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, zinc, B-vitamins and vitamin C.

Recommended Dosage:
Take two (2) capsules, two (2) to three (3) times each day with water at mealtimes.

Contraindications:
Although frequently used in herbal medications for nausea and pains during pregnancy, Wild Yam is not currently recommended for pregnant and nursing women. The active component of Wild Yam, diosgenin, may interact with estradiol, a hormone that is used in some birth control medications and certain hormone replacement therapies. Large amounts (many times the recommended dosage) may produce vomiting.

Capsule Information:
Our Wild Yam (6% Diosgenin) supplements are encapsulated in 100% Gluten-free, Vegetable Cellulose, Certified Kosher, size "00" Capsules.(click here for size comparison) Each capsule contains approximately 700 mgs.

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