Gordonii

[Agavegeoff]

Hi, All.

Don't need it myself.
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[Guest]

Geoff,

Nothing beats will power, thsi is just another way of taking money from the weak willed.

[iann]

If Hoodia can make me look like that, then .... I don't want any!

[Vic]

Apparently the raw plant is eaten by native tribesmen, which supresses their appetites whilst they go hunting for 2-3 days.

[Julie]

Hmm.. interesting, Vic.

Bob, I agree!

Well, she has bigger boobs than me, perhaps I should raid your greenhouses and get munching on the contents!

[Roy]

.....be satisfied with nature.....I know a lady that wished in her sleep for everything a man would want and when she woke up she had big muscles a hairy chest.
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[Mr Crimson]

Yep, gordonii is a well known apetite-suppressant, though I doubt your boobs will be affected

However, you could try it out, and post before/after-pictures

[Colin Walker]

Hi Folks,

I feel there's a big issue here around conservation of these plants.

Hoodias aren't that easy to grow and don't seem to grow especially quickly. So if these slimming preparations - I'm very reluctant to call these medications - really take off then I firmly believe this will put the natural populations under severe threat.

Any views on this?

[Roy]

If one of my family was dying I would use anything at all to cure them whether it was the last surviving specimen or not. However this seems to just commercial exploitation of a resource for cash.
However if I was on the poverty line and this was my only source of income I could well take a different view
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[Aloenut]

Hi All,

Hoodias have been used by the Hottentot tribes of Southern Africa (Botswana & Namibia) as an appetite suppresant for thousands of years.
A few years ago some of the big drug manufacturers identified the active agent in the plants and started harvesting them to produce these tablets on a commercial basis.

Aloenut