One more setback for Phytopharm – Uniliver returned the Patent on Hoodia Back to Phytopharm.
Background: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa’s national laboratory, identified the P57, the only molecule having appetite suppressing property. Later in 1995 CSIR obtained a patent right on the P57 molecules for their usage in diet industry. They [...]

Is it safe to take Hoodia slimming pills during pregnancy or breastfeeding?
Most of the women gain over weight during pregnancy. Many want to get rid of that fat during pregnancy while others try to lose weight after delivery, when they are breast feeding the child.
But every mother wants to give more importance to the health [...]

What’s Hoodia Gordonii?
Hoodia plants of the gordonii variety are succulent plants from the botanical family Asclepiadaceae. The cactus has spines resembling a true cactus. Hoodia Gordonii and has been used for centuries by the San Bushmen of South Africa as a way of controlling hunger and thirst during hunting expeditions in the Kalahari desert.
Hoodia is [...]

Hoodia is a plant type which is found in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Their appearance is very much similar to the cactus plant, but in reality they are not cacti but succulents.