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The Story of Hoodia
Hoodia gordonii, a succulent plant, is found in Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. The San Bushmen who roam around their habitats in the Kalahari Desert have many uses for the plant. One of its uses was as an appetite suppressant. The San people found it useful while hunting in the desert for days together. Though this was known to the outside world for some time, it was only in 1997 that South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) began to investigate and patented its extract which they named as P57. The rights to exclusive use of P57 were sold to a British drug company called Phytopharm. Phytopharm licensed the production rights to Pfizer. Hoodia became internationally much sought after only after BBC presented a report on Hoodia in 2003 followed by 60 Minutes in 2004.
The drug was introduced and sold in the market as a weight loss drug. In all these hype, the San people were simply not considered. When the media confronted Phyotopharm about biopiracy, the company claimed that the San no longer existed. But the San Bushmen lived in the Kalahari Desert part of South Africa and other region where Hoodia is found. CSIR decided to share a portion of their royalty with the San in 2003. The share was estimated to be 0.003% of retail sales. The P57 rights were later returned by Pfizer to Phytopharm who in 2004 licensed it to Unilever. Unilever was also producing such diet foods as Slim Fast. Unilever claimed that it would use Hoodia to introduce functional food products.
Meanwhile Hoodia began to be marketed widely by a number of companies who claimed that their product contained Hoodia. These are available in a variety of forms as liquid, shakes, powder, capsules and pills such as Dex-L10 Hoodia, Hoodia Pure, Hoodia Extract, HoodiThin Liquid, Tru Hoodia Diet, H57 Hoodia, Hoodia SlimQuick, Hoodia Gordonii Shake Mix, Hoodia Shake, Hoodia Supreme, Hoodoba, and Desert Burn. Hoodia, in most cases, are combined with a few other useful items. Some Hoodia products are marketed for specific sections of consumers for instance Slimquick Hoodia diet which combines calcium, Vitamin D3 and Green Tea for women.
Phytopharm subsequently applied and was granted two more patents related to treatment of gastric disorders. Applications for patent for some more uses have been subsequently filed. These are related to its potential use in disorders related to disorders in the functioning of the saliva, prostrate and sweat glands besides sexual dysfunction.
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