Herboristería Asperger SA.

The Company was founded in 1998 in the city of Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay.  It collects, processes and packages Yerba Mate and diverse herbs with medicinal properties from the Subtropical Forests of the Eastern Region of Paraguay.

The collection of herbs comes mainly from small sized producers with which the Company has an Associated Production System.  It guides them in the production, management and the necessary funding for each entrepreneurship.

Operating under Good Practice Norms for Production and through the guidance of NGO’s and the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), Asperger SA has an excellent team and state of the art machinery to produce fresh, pure teas of excellent quality.

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Segismundo Asperger

Segismundo Asperger was a German Jesuit of the 18th century that lived in the Guarani Missions of the River Plate area for over fifty years, until his death in 1772, at nearly one hundred years of age.  He was a wise man who dedicated his life to God and the study of plants and medicinal herbs in Paraguay.
Several botanical and medical books are attributed to him.  His extensive observations are today a unique contribution to Natural Sciences and the current studies on medicinal herbs.

He was also the creator of the “Elixir of the Missions,” which at the time was sent in great amounts to Europe to treat all types of illnesses and was used especially as a blood tonic.

Even at such an old age, he was the only Jesuit who stayed on in the Missions after the expulsion of the Order from Spanish territories.  Up to the mid 19th centuries there were several original copies of his manuscripts in the Guarani language. 

His interesting biography caught the attention of the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos (Awarded the Cervantes Prize) who characterized him in his famous novel "La Tierra Sin Mal (The Land without Evil)".