Dr. Gloria Chacon de Popovici

Gloria Chacon de Popovici studied biological sciences in the National University Mayor de San Marcos from 1959-1962, receiving her bachelors degree in Biological Sciences with the theme of Photochemical Study of MACA. From 1960-1991 she specialized in Botanical Taxonomy, Phyto- and Qualitative Chemistry. From 1962-1965 she researched and studied the Plankton Dynamics of Populations in Commercial Fishing with Statistic Analysis at Marine Resources Institute and performed ecological investigations on plankton as part of her studies on Oceanographic maps for the Atlas of History of Oceanic Geography. She investigated pulmonary functions in sheep at the Pathology Institute of Medicine at San Marcos University that same year.

In 1966 she formed the Organization of Hydro Biological Institute researching aquatic fauna of common delta regions of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers in India and the shallow waters of the north of the Bengal Gulf with her husband, a renowned fishery expert for the FAO of the United Nations.

Her work on the medicinal effects of minerals earned her an outstanding award of distinction from the University of San Marcos, Peru. She and her late husband worked on the effect of the El Nino current on the Peruvian cost. Together they produced and published dozens of scientific studies for the Health Ministry of Peru. These studies covered the taxonomy of micro algae (chlorealla) and the bactericidal effects of medicinal minerals found in South American waters.
Dr. Chacon's Continued Research of MACA

After her husband's death in 1990, Dr. Chacon continued her studies of MACA. By combining her knowledge of medicinal minerals and medicinal plants, she developed symposiums on the medicinal and nutritional effects of MACA. Read about MACA Her dedication to studying MACA led to the official classification and registration of the name Lepidium peruvianum meyenii Chacon for MACA by the the Museum of Natural History in Lima, Peru, identified as registration number USM:89129 in1993. It is acknowledged by the Herbal Botanical Gardens of Berlin-Dahlem, Germany and the Herbal Botanical Studies of the University of California at Berkeley and the Herbal Botanical Gardens of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
What About The Scientific Community and Medicine Plants?

Many botanists are taking a serious look into alternative medicine and plants. One of the world's leading botanists, Dr. Mark Plotkin, has been searching around the globe and deep in the Amazon jungles for 20 years for plants that heal. His latest book is "Medicine Quest - In Search of Nature's Human Secrets."

Dr. Plotkin was interviewed this August, 2000 on the Today Show and shared his success, along with other botanists, in discovering new leads and some cures from these "natural" sources around the world. He spoke of drug resistant bacteria as the greatest threat to our species. These "killer bacteria are killing people in hospitals all over the Unite States and a fascinating lead for a cure to these "killer bacteria" comes from an Argentine soil fungus.

Dr. Plotkin spoke of his work with the Amazon Conservation team and their focus on bio-cultural diversity, believing that medicinal plant knowledge is imbedded in these local cultures. His work with plants as medicine caught the world's attention. IMAX filmed "Amazon," an academy award nominated picture about this work. Yes, plants as medicine are making a come back. Western scientists, who once dismissed this field as "magic," are now finding it to have real therapeutic effects.

Dr. Plotkin pointed out in his interview that even pharmaceutical companies who were essentially turning their backs on natural healers are now giving attention. As a matter of fact, he noted that almost every major pharmaceutical company now has a program to look for new medicines from natural sources.

He predicts that holes in our medical knowledge will be filled by natural products and by the knowledge of how to use them as possessed by these local healers.
Herbs and The Medical Community

Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., one of America's leading champions of nutritional healing reports in MD's Wellness Journal about the importance of nutrition. He says: "there are many, many cures out there--proven, all-natural cures from the world of nutritional medicine." He notes that many cures have been thoroughly evaluated in recent issues of the world's most prestigious medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, The Journal of the American Medical Association and others. There have been scientific, double-blind tests, showing how certain nutrients have achieved almost unbelievable results for a wide range of killer diseases.

Whitaker calls the human body a 'self healing' machine and speaks of tapping into your own vast inner healing power to cure chronic conditions, the immune system. Yet for the immune system to do what it was designed to do--protect us from many diseases, it must be properly nourished.

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Scientific Study: Effects of MACA on Sexual Behavior in Mice and Rats

Urology, a prestigious medical journal has published a study done on the effects of MACA on the sexual behavior in mice and rats. (Urology, volume 55, issue 4, April, 2000, pages 598 - 602)

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of MACA on the number of complete intromissions in mating in normal mice, and on the latent period of erection (LPE) in rats with erectile dysfunction.

CONCLUSION: MACA enhanced the sexual function of mice and rats, was as evidenced by an increase in the number of complete intromissions and the number of sperm-positive females in normal mice, and a decrease in the LPE in male rats with erectile dysfunction. The present study reveals for the first time an aphrodisiac activity of MACA, an Andean Mountain herb.