Devil’s claw extract is a premium harpagophytum ingredient standardized to 3%, 5% harpagoside. Devil’s claw tuberous roots are used in folk medicine to reduce pain. Today devil’s claw extract is used widely to fight inflammation or relieve equine osteoarthritis and laminitis, whilst human trials have seen a reduction in pain, and improved function in people suffering with osteoarthritis and back and neck pain.
Devil’s claw extract is a premium harpagophytum ingredient standardized to 3%, 5% harpagoside. Devil’s claw tuberous roots are used in folk medicine to reduce pain. Today devil’s claw extract is used widely to fight inflammation or relieve equine osteoarthritis and laminitis, whilst human trials have seen a reduction in pain, and improved function in people suffering with osteoarthritis and back and neck pain.
Harpagophytum also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil’s claw, is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their common name “devil’s claw” to the peculiar appearance of their hooked fruit. Several species of North American plants in the genus Proboscidea and certain species of Pisonia, however, are also known by this name. Devil’s claw’s tuberous roots are used in folk medicine to reduce pain.
The ethnobotanical use of devil’s claw originated in southern Africa. H. procumbens is one of the floral emblems of Botswana where it is thought to be useful in treating a variety of pain conditions. Preparations of the plant or its extracts, such as harpagoside, are presumed to have uses in folk medicine and phytotherapy as an anti-inflammatory herbal drug or dietary supplement. Although there is no accepted clinical evidence of its efficacy and bioavailability, limited effects were noted for treating lower back pain and osteoarthritis.
