For several years, Internet users have been talking about the Indian plant of Kalir-Kanda, having eaten one or two sheets of which supposedly you can satisfy hunger for a whole week. We decided to check how true such posts are.
About a wonderful Indian plant, supposedly giving a feeling of satiety for a week, write on entertainment Portals and on sites O Travel. It is alleged that its name is translated from the local dialect as “deceit of the stomach”. Such information is distributed by users of social networks (Facebook*, Instagram*, "VKontakte" X, Telegram and others) and the platform blog ("Picabu" Livejournal, Reddit, Blogspot). You can find information about Kalir Canda and in some books, for example, in "Small children's encyclopedia»Edited by Russian Encyclopedic Partnership. On sites With reviews, people share the experience of using biologically active additives (dietary supplements) for weight loss with Kalir-Kanda.
“Verified” failed to find information about a plant called “Kalir-Kanda” outside the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. However, if we talk about scientific sources, then there is no information about the miracle growth in the database Digital herbarium of Moscow State Universitywhere more than a million samples from around the world are collected, not among hundreds of digitized reference books, encyclopedias and scientific papers Central Scientific Agricultural Library. This plant is not mentioned on other authoritative Russian -speaking scientific resources.
In the English-language segment of the Internet, the search for various options for transliteration of the name “Kalir-Kanda” does not give any results, and not only on scientific and encyclopedic portals, such as Britannica, International Index of Plant Names or the world's largest digitized database of plant samples Global Plants from the scientific library JSTOR, but even in social networks (with the exception of literally a couple posts, the text of which almost literally coincides with the Russian -speaking version). This is strange, given that English - The second most popular language in India. Therefore, if they really knew about a plant with this name, most likely on Indian sites it would be widely mentioned in English transliteration.
It could be assumed that the plant is known only to the Indians, and exclusively not talking in English, and by some happy chance, Russian-speaking Internet users. In the posts of Kalir-Kande, it is specified that this name translates from the local dialect as “stomach deceit”. The name is really like something Indian (for example, there is a village in India Kalir-Alga And the city Kanda), so the layman is easy to believe that the local plant can be called. What kind of dialects are we talking about, however, in no post is not specified. The Constitution of India recognizes official 22 languages, although this Not exhaustive List - there are more than a hundred in the country. If you translate the phrase "deceit the stomach" to the most Popular Of these (Hindi, Bengalsky, Marathi, Malayalam, Penjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil) using online translators, and then look for information about the plant already by this translation, many articles about weight loss really appear in the search results of Google, but the wonderful plant is not mentioned anywhere. In some Russian -speaking sources The option of writing its name on Hindi: पेट मूर्ख. However, this phrase sounds not as “Kalir-Kanda”, but as “Pete Murkh”, but it translates and really looks like “gastric fool”. When searching for this phrase, no references to plants, the leaves of which are satisfied with hunger for a whole week, also could not be found.
It is noteworthy that in Kalir-Canda posts, users use a photo of the fruits and leaves of plants as an illustration that are significantly different. On the most popular picture, accompanying most of the posts about Kalir Canda, depicted breadfruit, by no means possessing such miraculous properties. It turns out that the authors of the posts have no idea how the plant they write about.
As for the additives for weight loss, supposedly containing the Kalir-Kanda extract, then at the time of writing this analysis in a single Register certificates of state registration of the Eurasian Economic Union, where They are introduced The data, including the dietary supplements sold in Russia, there is no information about additives called Kalir-Kanda. Judging by the date of publication of the majority reviews Users about the use of such additives, the peak of their popularity occurred in 2012-2013. No link to sites where they were sold does not work, however, judging by archival copies web pages, buyers were promised not only weight loss, but also improvement of mood and even increased potency. Apparently, if not in an invention, then the popularization in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet Kalir-Kanda is obliged precisely to manufacturers of dietary supplements who offered customers a miraculous means.
Thus, “verified” could not detect information about the existence of the Kalir-Kanda plant. Almost exclusively, users of the Russian -language segment of the Internet write about it, although it is supposed to come from India. No authoritative scientific database has no information about this plant or drugs based on it. Search on the Internet in the most common languages in India also did not give any results. Photos used as illustrations for the Kalir-Canda posts vary very much. The totality of these factors allows you to say with confidence that such a plant simply does not exist.
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