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Manayupa

Manayupa (Desmodium molliculum) is a creeping herb native to the Central Andes of Peru that grows from 1,000 to 3,500 meters above sea level. It has trifoliate leaves and small purple flowers arranged in racemes. The plant's leaves are used medicinally and have various pharmacological properties including being anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antimalarial, and helping improve kidney function. Its chemical composition includes organic acids, steroids, saponins, and other compounds.

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Manayupa

Manayupa (Desmodium molliculum) is a creeping herb native to the Central Andes of Peru that grows from 1,000 to 3,500 meters above sea level. It has trifoliate leaves and small purple flowers arranged in racemes. The plant's leaves are used medicinally and have various pharmacological properties including being anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antimalarial, and helping improve kidney function. Its chemical composition includes organic acids, steroids, saponins, and other compounds.

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PRODUCT SHEET

Manayupa (Desmodium molliculum )


FAMILY :Fabaceae = Leguminosae (legumes)
COMMON NAMES: “manayupa”, “beggar lice”, “hard man”, “hard stick”, “strong back”.
SPANISH: “manayupa”, “margarita”, “pega-pega”. Peru “manayupa”, “manayupana”. Mexico
“amor seco”, “escobilla”, PURÉPECHA: “Uekaku K'arhiri”. PORTUGUESE: “barba de boi”,
“carrapicho”. OTHERS: “burbur”, “dipinda dimukuyi”, “dusa karnira”, “mundurana”, “owono-
bocon”.

DESCRIPTION: Creeping herb up to 1 m long, perennial, branching (that is, forming mats of
multiple branches), stem thin, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves: Trifoliate, stipulated. Flowers: Small,
papilionate (butterfly-like), light purple, arranged in racemes. Fruit: An indehiscent legume
called a loment, green, lineal, flattened; seeds kidney-shaped.

ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION: South American, probably native to Central Andes (Peru). It
grows wild in Central and South America, in the equatorial and circumecuatorial zone, at
elevations of 1,000 to 3,500 m a. s. l.

PART USED: Leaves.

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PROPERTIES: antianaphylactic, antiasthmatic, antiallergic, antimicrobial, mild antispasmodic,
anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antiparasitic (Ascaris lumbricoides), antitumor, antiviral,
aperitive (stimulates the appetite); against gastritis (acute and chronic), against oxalate kidney
calculi; chronotropic (controls the rate of contraction of the heart), depurative, digestive
(favours or assists the process of digestion), diuretic, hepatoprotector, hypertensive
(soyasaponins, hordenine), hypolipidemic, mild hypotensive (astragalin), immuno-modulator,
inotropic (increases the force of contraction of cardiac muscle), improves kidney functions, blood
detoxifier, sedative.

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION:
· Organic Acids, Steroids, Saponins: dehydrosoyasaponin I, soyasaponin I, soyasaponin II,
soyasaponin III, soyasaponegol B; (common aglycone of soyasaponins I-IV), other Triterpenoids
saponines, astragalin, Beta-phenylarethylamine, Cosmosiin, Cyanidino-3-orthosoforoside,
Hordenine, Pelargonidin-3-ortho-rhamnoside, Salsoline, Tectorigenin, Tetrahydroisoquinolines,
Tyramine.

Av. Nicolas de Arriola 2844 – Lima Telefax 511 – 326-1097 - Email: fitofar@terra.com.pe
Website: http://www.laboratoriosfitofarma.com

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