GUARANA HERB

Guarana is also known as paullinia cupana 

It is a climbing plant with family sapindaceae 

Fruit of this plant resembles human eye , with a red shell encasing a black seed covered by a white aril . It is about the size of coffee berry .

It has yellow panicles flowers 

Leaves of this plant are divided compound 

Fruits are three sided pear shaped with three celled capsules with thin partitions 

Seeds are like small horse chestnut half enclosed in an aril , flesh colored and easily separated when dried . 

After the seeds are shelled and washed they are roasted for six hours

Steams are pentagonal , puberulent with stem cross section exhibiting a single vascular cylinder 

The leaflet blades are elliptic or oblong elliptic , the base is cuneate or attenuate , acute and obtuse to sub rounded on lateral leaflet .

Flowers of this plant are unisexual , zygomorphic , has 5 green sepals , possessing minute glandular hair along the margin . 

CLASSIFICATION :-

Kingdom :-  Plantae – plants 

Subkingdom :- Tracheobionta – vascular plants 

Superdivision :- Spermatophyta – seed plants 

Class    :- Magnoliopsida – dicotyledons

Subclass :- Rosidae 

Division    :- Magnoliophyta – flowering plants  

Genus :- Paullinia 

Species :- Cupana 

Synonyms :- Paullinia sorbilis 

Common Names :- Quarana , Quaranastruik , Guarana , Guarana Kletterstrauch , Brazillian cocoa , Uabano, Cupana , Brazilian cocoa , Uaranzeiro . 

USES :-

1 Malaria     2 Diarrhea     3 Fever     4 Headache     5 Heart problems      

6 Improvement of exercise endurance          7 Chronic fatique syndrome 

8 Joint pain         8 fluid retention         9 Improvement of short term 

10 High intensity perfomance and power          11 Increase urine flow

12 Increasing blood pressure        13 Weight loss        14 Dysentery

15 In food manufacturing , it is used as a flavoring ingredient in      beverage and candy.

16 Stimulation Of Central Nervous System :- Due to presence of caffeine it increase the activity of brain and cause mental alertness and wakefulness .

PARTS USED :- SEEDS and FRUIT 

Guarana seeds are collected and roasted to remove the seed coat . Separated from the shell , broken and made into a paste with water and dried for further use.

It can be used in form of powder , sticks , powder , capsules and extracts .

NAMES :-

1 English :- Brazilian cocoa , Guarana

2 Brazil  :- Guarana sipo , Guarana , Guarana uva 

3 Dutch :- Guarana 

4 German :- Guarana 

5 Peru :- Cupana 

6 Venezuela :- Cupana