The 18th Issue of 2013                    Board of Directors Office                    December 10, 2013

        Recently, a new foodstuff product getting QS license - Maca Tablets was launched, marking Daphne's new breakthrough in development of foodstuff products. Now, the Maca Tablets are available for sale in the Kunming White Drug Powder Nanping Store, Changshui Airport Drug Counter, Kunming Daphne Hotel, Yunnan Wanqi Shangqi Trading Co, Tea Wholesale Market and some state-owned sales outlets. 
        Maca (Lepidium peruvianum), a species in the genus Lepidium of the family Cruciferae, is a native plant generally growing at regions 3500-4500 m above the sea level in the Andes and mainly distributed in the PUNO region and southeast cities in Peru. Maca features thick tubers and looks like radish in shape. By color, it's divided into the white, yellow, purple and black varieties. Maca contains essential amino acids, unsaturated fatty acid, macaenes, macamides, potassium, calcium and iron. Macaenes and macamides are regarded as one of the most potent sexual boosters in maca extract. Maca, dubbed "Andean Ginseng", is an essential material in the Peruvian recipes. Since its first cultivation in the Inca Empire, it has already a growing history of 2000 years as a most valuable foodstuff. It's not until in early 1990s that maca won worldwide attention. The researchers happened to identify this plant in their search for substitute for Viagra. Maca shows significant effect in improving sexual function, becoming a new hit in the global health food and drug market. For men, use of this substance will see the effect of fighting fatigue to refresh the body, increasing the amount and quality of the sperms, energizing the user physically and mentally, improving impotence & prospermia, and relieving the stress to improve sleep quality. For women users, it demonstrates the benefits of regulating the internal secretion, fighting menopausal syndrome, strengthening the immunity, resisting fatigue and anemia, and improving memory and sleep quality. Reports of toxicological researches over the years show that maca does not have any side effect. Globally, many maca application and extension products, including maca-based health products, compound preparation and foodstuff, sell well, making maca a top 10 best-selling health product in the world.