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PASUCHACA

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Pasuchaca

Botanical name:

Geranium dielsianum Knuth (not “delsianum”). Trade often sells G. sessiliflorum Cav. or G. ayavacense under the same name.

Alternative names:

Pasuchaca, pasochaca

Main indications:

  • Andean geranium tea
  • folk metabolic talk
  • folk astringent (diarrhea / mouth)

THIS PLANT IS PART OF THE TAPIR VERDE, ELIXIR DEL QUETZAL AND SUSURRO DEL INIA HERBAL FORMULAS.

Short characteristics:

Small high-Andes geranium. The literature name is G. dielsianum. A Lima market study found G. sessiliflorum and G. crassipes on the pasuchaca stall and did not find G. dielsianum. One mouse paper saw maltase inhibition; that is not a human diabetes trial. Not Amazonian.

Karato 2006 (title spelling dielsiaum is theirs) is the mouse paper. Bussmann 2013 is the market paper. This site sells nothing.

The usual way of use:

Decoction of aerial parts or root if the plant is identified.

This site sells nothing.

WARNING: Do not drink it as a substitute for prescribed glucose-lowering drugs. Unknown Geranium in the bag is common.

Composition

Polyphenols. Later work talks astilbin — that 2025 Foods paper was not opened, so it is not cited.

Traditional use

Andean astringent and folk metabolic tea.

Precautions

Unknown species; astringent gut effects; no human RCT. Not type-2 diabetes, pancreatitis, or a gynaecological-infection drug.

Opened studies

  • Bussmann et al. (2013). Lima medicinal-plant markets. Pasuchaca stall often not G. dielsianum. PMID 23721210 · PMC3738155.

  • Karato et al. (2006). Geranium dielsianum (their spelling dielsiaum) mouse maltase work. No glucose-load effect when glucose itself was given. Not a human trial. PMID 16794329.