{"id":1782,"date":"2010-07-28T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abc-latina.com\/maca-php\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:24:41","slug":"maca","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abc-latina.com\/index\/maca\/","title":{"rendered":"La MACA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Les scientifiques ont donn\u00e9 de la maca<\/span> \u00e0 des rats de laboratoire… qui se sont soudainement transform\u00e9s en "chauds lapins". Les exp\u00e9riences se sont multipli\u00e9es: \u00e9tudiants et scientifiques se sont propos\u00e9s comme "cobayes humains". Et les constatations furent identiques la mata augmente les capacit\u00e9s sexuelles et reproductives, au point qu’elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 surnomm\u00e9e le ginseng andin. Mais il ne s’agit pas de comparer la racine du ginseng avec celle de la maca, car les deux plantes ont des principes actifs diff\u00e9rents. Le ginseng est adaptog\u00e8ne, c’est-\u00e0-dire qu’il permet \u00e0 l’organisme de s’adapter \u00e0 une situation en puisant dans ses ressources. La maca, tr\u00e8s riche en prot\u00e9ines, contient des glucosinolates, des acides amin\u00e9s (lysine, m\u00e9thionine, tryptophane), des oligo-\u00e9l\u00e9ments (fer, cuivre, zinc, sodium, potassium, calcium et iode), des alcalo\u00efdes mais aussi des substances qui agissent directement sur les syst\u00e8mes hormonaux de l’homme et de la femme. <\/div>\n
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A la rescousse de la virilit\u00e9 des hidalgos <\/span><\/div>\n
Quand les Espagnols arriv\u00e8rent dans la Cordill\u00e8re des Andes, ils s’aper\u00e7urent assez rapidement que leurs capacit\u00e9s reproductrices s’amenuisaient. M\u00eame constatation en ce qui concernait leur b\u00e9tail. Ils comprirent que c’\u00e9tait certainement d\u00fb au froid et \u00e0 l’altitude. Les indiens leur conseill\u00e8rent de manger de la mata et d’en donner en fourrage au b\u00e9tail. Les r\u00e9sultats furent tels que le modeste tubercule devint rapidement l’objet d’un commerce intensif !<\/div>\n
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Un l\u00e9gume rare <\/span><\/div>\n
La maca (Lepidium meyenii) est cultiv\u00e9e depuis des si\u00e8cles sur les hauts plateaux de la Puna, au sud du P\u00e9rou<\/a>, \u00e0 partir de 4000 m\u00e8tres d’altitude, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 ne pousse aucune autre plante alimentaire. De la famille des crucif\u00e8res (corme le navet, le chou, la moutarde ou le radis), elle ne pousse qu’aux alentours des neiges \u00e9ternelles, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 le froid est permanent et les gel\u00e9es fr\u00e9quentes. Dans ces terres inhospitali\u00e8res, la racine se faufile entre les cailloux pour rechercher les nutriments dont elle a besoin. Mais elle profite de l’extraordinaire luminosit\u00e9 de ces r\u00e9gions. Semblable \u00e0 une sorte de navet de 6 \u00e0 8 cm, la maca est un tubercule qui, selon les vari\u00e9t\u00e9s, peut \u00eatre jaune clair, beige, marron, rouge\u00e2tre. Il n’y a aucune diff\u00e9rence de go\u00fbt ou de composition chimique majeure li\u00e9e \u00e0 la couleur. Sa pulpe est blanche ou jaune. Les parties a\u00e9riennes ressemblent \u00e0 des feuilles de pissenlit, dispos\u00e9es en rosette. Le cycle de croissance de la maca est tr\u00e8s particulier puisqu’elle ne forme des fleurs et ne se reproduit qu’\u00e0 partir de la deuxi\u00e8me ann\u00e9e. Difficile \u00e0 cultiver en raison du froid, de la pression atmosph\u00e9rique et du manque d’oxyg\u00e8ne, cette plante qui a d\u00fb s’adapter \u00e0 des conditions climatiques tr\u00e8s particuli\u00e8res a failli dispara\u00eetre. Pourtant, elle faisait partie de l’alimentation des populations locales.<\/div>\n
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D’innombrables \u00e9tudes scientifiques <\/span><\/div>\n
D\u00e8s 1653, le P\u00e8re Barnab\u00e9 Cobo, historien, d\u00e9crit la mata et ses curieuses propri\u00e9t\u00e9s. C’est en 1961 que le Dr Gloria Chacon de Popovici d\u00e9couvre 4 alcalo\u00efdes et leur action sur le syst\u00e8me reproducteur de l’homme et de la femme. Ensuite, les travaux se sont multipli\u00e9s, notamment dans les pays anglo-saxons (University of British Columbia, City University of New York, University of California…) pour d\u00e9couvrir les autres modes d’action de ce surprenant tubercule. C’est certainement au Professeur Fernando Cabieses, Neurologue de notori\u00e9t\u00e9 internationale, Professeur de neurochirurgie \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Miami, Professeur Honoraire d’une dizaine d’Universit\u00e9s et Historien de la m\u00e9decine, que la mata doit sa renomm\u00e9e internationale.<\/div>\n
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Une culture sacr\u00e9e <\/span><\/div>\n
Pour les Incas<\/a>, la maca, parce qu’elle prosp\u00e9rait dans les terrains les plus pauvres et qu’elle se gorgeait de soleil, ne pouvait \u00eatre qu’une plante sacr\u00e9e. Le fait qu’elle ait des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s nutritives et aphrodisiaques exceptionnelles ne pouvait que justifier sa cons\u00e9cration. La maca \u00e9tait, semble-t-il, la nourriture des messagers qui, jour et nuit, se relayaient dans tout le pays pour transmettre les ordres du Grand Inca. Aliment complet, la maca permet toujours aux populations andines de r\u00e9sister plus facilement au froid et aux agressions climatiques.<\/div>\n
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Les indications de la maca <\/span><\/div>\n
La maca, en compl\u00e9ment alimentaire, est utilis\u00e9e essentiellement pour renforcer les d\u00e9fenses naturelles, mieux r\u00e9sister au froid, donner un coup de fouet en cas de fatigue physique r\u00e9soudre certaines d\u00e9ficiences sexuelles masculines, am\u00e9liorer la f\u00e9condit\u00e9 de l’homme et de la femme, lutter contre les effets de la m\u00e9nopause (bouff\u00e9es de chaleur, fatigue, probl\u00e8mes de libido ou de m\u00e9moire, c\u00e9phal\u00e9es…).<\/div>\n
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Comment trouver la maca ? <\/span><\/div>\n
Actuellement, la maca est encore peu connue en France. Elle est diffus\u00e9e essentiellement par correspondance(ou sur Internet). On n’en trouve ni en pharmacies ni en boutiques di\u00e9t\u00e9tiques. Certainement, d’ici quelques mois, comme pour beaucoup de plantes qui ont prouv\u00e9 leur efficacit\u00e9, la maca sera vendue partout ! On trouve aussi la maca en association avec d’autres plantes, ce qui renforce son efficacit\u00e9 : probl\u00e8mes de la m\u00e9nopause : maca + soja + yam; fatigue physique, sexuelle ou intellectuelle, probl\u00e8mes immunitaires : maca + \u00e9leuth\u00e9rocoque<\/div>\n
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Impossible de la trouver fra\u00eeche <\/span><\/div>\n
A l’export, la commercialisation de la maca fra\u00eeche est interdite par le gouvernement p\u00e9ruvien. Elle est donc vendue uniquement sous forme de "farine", de "granul\u00e9s" ou de "g\u00e9lules". La farine est obtenue par s\u00e9chage au four puis passage dans un moulin. Cette plante fait partie officiellement du patrimoine p\u00e9ruvien. La culture, la r\u00e9colte, la transformation et l’exportation sont tr\u00e8s contr\u00f4l\u00e9es par l’administration p\u00e9ruvienne pour \u00e9viter un trafic qui entra\u00eenerait la disparition de l’esp\u00e8ce ou appauvrirait les Indiens. La maca fait partie (avec le tribulus dont nous avons parl\u00e9 dans un pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent num\u00e9ro) des plantes red\u00e9couvertes r\u00e9cemment, connaissant un succ\u00e8s foudroyant outre-Atlantique et disponibles en France depuis quelques mois.<\/div>\n
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Source: Magazine Belle Sant\u00e9 n° 32, f\u00e9vrier 2001 – Sophie Lacoste<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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