Guayusa and Improved Stimulant Effect

• Amazonian ethnobotany and the search for new drugs.

  • 1994-01-01
  • Review
  • Ciba Foundation symposium 185
  • • R E Schultes

  • PubMed: 7736849
  • DOI: 10.1002/9780470514634.ch8

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Stimulant Effect

  • Low evidence

  Ethnobotanical studies have identified plants documented by early travellers; these include Paullinia yoco and Ilex guayusa which are used as stimulants and have been shown to be rich in caffeine.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No