Podcast 417: Camu Camu and 7Roots
Jorge Ureña, founder of the company UHTCO, producer and manufacturer of the highest quality maca on the market, is with us today once again to tell us more about UHTCO products, including Camu Camu and 7Root!
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(This is Part 2 of a series, click here for Part 1)
JORGE: So let’s talk about the products now! I don’t know exactly which products you have in your store, so I am going to show them all briefly…
MARTIN: I would very much like to carry the whole line, but at this moment we have the Maca, of course, we have the purple, the black, and the mixed. We also have Camu Camu, and we also have 7Roots.
JORGE: Okay! So 7Roots is actually a very old ancient drink prepared by this tribe in Peru. It is commonly known as the ‘panty breaker.’
MARTIN: The panty breaker? Does it have some kind of sexual undertone?
JORGE: Yes, exactly! It is well-known in this area, in the Amazon. Even if you just Google the term ‘the panty breaker,’ you will find it. It is a combination of seven different plant roots, but these are roots that don’t grow underground, these are aerial roots. Some trees and plants have all these roots in the air.
MARTIN: So these seven roots come from the Amazonian tropical side of Peru, not from the high altitude, right?
JORGE: That is correct. I will just read you a little bit of every single ingredient. Chuchuhuasi is one of them. And don’t be afraid of the names! Because many people know Ayahuasca, for example, right? Ayahuasca is another plant, and people use it to do ceremonies and they usually say that the Ayahuasca will get you into the ‘other world,’ and so on.
MARTIN: I know, the DMT, Dimethyltryptamine, has a powerful, powerful effect on brain chemistry!
JORGE: Correct! We don’t know exactly what it does, honestly, but it has been used for many years by ancient tribes. And this is more or less the same idea. What we do is we just put the actual ingredients in a hydroalcoholic base…
MARTIN: …so you do double extraction? Do you do water extraction and alcohol extraction?
JORGE: ‘Hydroalcoholic’ means we are mixing water and alcohol in such a way to achieve a balanced pH on the product, so we can extract all the biochemical components out of it, and then we press, we extract, and we get just the liquid. Then we do a mixing. On the label, there is a little bit of the history of the seven roots for you to read. So again, going back to the ingredients, we have the Chuchuhuasi, which is used by indigenous Peruvians to this day, that is a remedy for arthritis, back pain, bronchitis, and so on. The next one is called Iporuru. It is difficult to pronounce, but…
MARTIN: …that doesn’t even sound Spanish!
JORGE: It is a tribal name, it is their dialect. Then we have Huanarpo Macho, translated to English that means ‘male.’ We also have Clavo huasca, it is just like a clove, this is the same plant, but from the Amazon area, this is a wild version. Clavo huasca is very specific, it is an aphrodisiac, but only for women. 7Roots is actually made in such a way that it satisfies the needs of both men and women.