Larrea Tridentada Comments and Feedback

Larrea Tridentada (Chaparral) is a product that people are finding for sale on the internet and ordering online in an attempt to treat herpes simplex virus. If you have tried Larrea Tridentada for herpes outbreaks please share your positive or negative experiences about that product for posting on this feedback page. Send me your comments and feedback along with your blessing to post on the site. All names and e-mail addresses will be kept confidential.

   LARREA TRIDENTADA - Have you tried it yet?  

   Yep- search for it on pubmed and almost every hit talks about it's toxicity. If my choice was my liver or my herpes I think I'll stick with the herpes thank you! There is also absolutely no scientific research backing that Larrea or lauricidin is effective for herpes. Even Dr. Kabara himself admits that for his lauricidin product. - B

   Chaparral, commonly called the creosote bush, is a desert shrub with a long history of use as a traditional medicine by Native Americans. Chaparral is marketed as a tea, as well as in tablet, capsule, and concentrated extract form, and has been promoted as a natural antioxidant "blood purifier," cancer cure, and acne treatment. At least six cases (five in the United States and one in Canada) of acute non-viral hepatitis (rapidly developing liver damage) have been associated with the consumption of chaparral as a dietary supplement. Additional cases have been reported and are under investigation. In the majority of the cases reported thus far, the injury to the liver resolves over time, after discontinuation of the product. In at least two patients, however, there is evidence that chaparral consumption caused irreversible liver damage. One patient suffered terminal liver failure requiring liver transplant.

Most of these cases are associated with the consumption of single ingredient chaparral capsules or tablets; however, a few of the more recent cases appear to be associated with consumption of multi-ingredient products (capsules, tablets or teas) that contain chaparral as one ingredient. Chemical analyses have identified no contaminants in the products associated with the cases of hepatitis. Products from at least four different distributors and from at least two different sources have been implicated thus far.

After FDA's health warning, many distributors of chaparral products voluntarily removed the products from the market in December of 1992. Some chaparral products remain on the market, however, and other distributors who removed their products from the market are seeking to clarify the status of these products. - Compliments of the FDA

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