HOODIA GORDONII (Hoodia gordonii)

Species: TRICHOCAULON
Common Names: Hoodia Gordonii, Gordonii Hoodia, Hoodia
Origin: Paarl South Africa
Medicinal Uses: appetite suppressant, stomach pains, hangovers

Researchers are constantly at work on the problem of obesity, new hope has been found for millions of people. Right now there is an ongoing battle over a new discovery, a plant called Hoodia, which grows in South Africa, it may be the first ever-natural appetite suppressant. Used for thousands of years by the Kalahari bushmen to suppress their appetites while on long hunting expeditions this new discovery has no side effects. Watch for this one! Right now, Pfizer and the Bushmen are fighting over the rights to it! Pfizer hope to have the Hoodia active ingredient ready to market in pill form within the next two years.

The hoodia - a bitter, spiny botanical plant - has been used for generations by the Kalahari San people to cure ailments such as stomach pains, fatigue and hangovers. San hunter’s also chewed slices of the knee-high succulent to stave off hunger and thirst on long hunting trips.

The CSIR had isolated the hoodia’s active appetite-suppressing properties into a slimming ingredient, dubbed P57. The hoodia-derived drug has been effectively tested on humans for centuries, and has few of the side-effects typical of slimming products, given that it is derived from a natural source.

The CSIR later sold the development rights to P57 to British firm Phytopharm. Pfizer, the giant pharmaceutical company that developed the impotence drug Viagra, then paid Phytopharm $21-million for the development rights.

San communities across southern Africa will receive 6% of the royalties paid to the CSIR by Phytopharm, as well as milestone payments over the next four years of between R8-million and R12-million. The first milestone payment of R259 000 will be backdated to March 2002.

Pfizer aims to develop the drug into a $1-billion market product. Should the company decide to make the drug from its naturally derived source; the hoodia will be cultivated in South Africa. The slow-growing plant requires a specific micro-climate" and experimental cultivation is already under way in the Northern Cape.

Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane hailed the agreement between the San and the CSIR this week as "the right thing".

"The agreement signed today is simply about doing the right thing. The right thing in terms of benefit sharing with the holders of traditional knowledge" of delivering on the promise that bio-prospecting can create social and economic benefits for a nation" including its poorest communities."

Ngubane added that his department will release a draft policy on indigenous knowledge in June. Which will be incorporated into a bill that will stipulate practical measures to protect indigenous knowledge.

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