In 1937 the Dutch anthropologist investigating a life bushmens the Dignity, has noticed, that they I use hoodia for appetite suppression. But only in 1963 scientists from national laboratory of Southern Africa in Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have started to study properties Hoodia Gordonii. As it was known, that bushmens eat hoodia, it has been included in research of native products. The first research has been spent in the mid-sixties. Scientific steels to feed with extract Hoodia Gordonii of animals, and animals have started to lose interest to meal and have begun to grow thin quickly.
As a result of research it has been revealed, that at experimental rats the weight of a body has decreased within 3 weeks for 20-50 % from the initial. Thus animals lost weight basically at the expense of a fatty fabric. Signs of intolerance of a preparation by animals it has not been revealed.
Within 30 years the national laboratory of Southern Africa tried to allocate and define a component hoodia, suppressing appetite. Eventually, the South African scientists have found out, that the cactus contains earlier unfamiliar molecule, steroid glicozid which have been named Р57. When they have found it have received the patent and have sold its companies Phytopharm. Last has spent more than 20 million dollars for researches, including clinical tests for the volunteers, suffering adiposity which have yielded promising results.
