Boldo

What is Boldo?

Boldo is a tree in the evergreen family, indigenous to the Chilean and Peruvian areas of the Amazon Rainforest. Boldo is also known to grow in Northern Africa, but is believed to be more prevalent in South America. Thick and shrubby in appearance, the Boldo tree can grow as high as 25 feet.

What's so great about the Boldo tree?

The Boldo tree offers the Amazon people numerous resources for improving life and health. In part of Chile, the fruit of the Boldo is used as a spice for meals, while the bark is utilized in tanning hides.(1) The tree itself provides burning fuel during the colder months.

It is the Boldo leaf, however, that provides the most beneficial medicinal properties. In South America and parts of Europe and North Africa, Boldo leaf is prized for the various health benefits it provides:

• The leaf is a known anthelmintic, or deworming medicine (2); essential oils are extracted for this purpose (3)
• The leaf is known in some parts of the Amazon to treat liver diseases and gallstones (4)
• In various global markets, Boldo extract is used as a diuretic (5) and known to induce the flow of stomach bile for better health (6, 7)
• Researchers in Germany have tested Boldo for mild gastrointestinal spasms and dyspeptic disorders (8)
• Studies in the US show that Boldo is effective in increasing urine flow, cleansing the body of wasteful product(9)

Does Boldo have any side effects

Studies in Germany have shown that people with serious kidney problems may experience kidney irritation with Boldo extract. Pregnant woman and people with advanced liver diseases are also advised to refrain from the herb.

Boldo just might work for me. Where can I get it?

Enter boldo into Internet search and you are bound to find hundreds of online shops selling the extract in powder and capsule form. This wonder supplement is in very high demand in European and Canadian, and is just finding prominence in the US. When you shop for Boldo at RainFloresta you will know you are getting the purest extracts of Boldo available, directly from the Amazon Rainforest. RainFloresta retains exclusive rights with one of the top Brazilian producers of Boldo extract to market this product to North America. We offer Boldo in capsules form for easy intake.

Does RainFloresta Boldo contain any other ingredients?

No. RainFloresta Boldo is 100% pure.

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