Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia, China History: no specific dates used to treat impotence in Traditional Chinese Medicine, where it is called “Tu Si Zi” used in a long term medication, wherein constant use improves and strengthens the sexual functions of both male and female users. It has been known to balance and tonify the kidney yin and [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: History: Technique: Effect: Reference: Mayo Clinic Staff URL: www.mayoclinic.com/health/erectile-dysfunction-herbs/MC00064
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia, China History: Han Dynasty (200BC-200AD) Used as a treatment of impotence in the Han Dynasty. Dendrobium nobile is one of the primary varieties used to make Shi-Hu: derived from “shih” meaning “rock” and “hu” meaning “living,” and refers to the way that these species of orchid grow on rocky surfaces. In traditional Chinese medicine, [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, China History: no specific dates * An ultimate primal essence (Jing) tonic and a good tonic for the blood since it replenishes not only the blood but also the essence * It strengthens the mind and enlivens the spirit (shen) * Tones and fortifies the Yang energy (or Yang Jing) of [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; Middle East History: Ancient Islamic folk traditions, no dates specified “Tamir as aphrodisiac: I. Remedy of tamr mixed with milk and cinnamon is aphrodisiac and activates the formation of sexual desire. Ii. A breakfast meal composed of black bread and cooked yolk (seven eggs) with 100 gram[s] Agua (or tamr y) and [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia (East); present Japan History: Technique: physiological; biopsychological Effect: influences testosterone levels; regulates hormone level Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas History: native to Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. named for Saint Damian, patron saint of pharmacists, by the Christian missionary Juan Maria de Salvatierra Technique: Effect: 2. Origin: Americas, Maya History: dates approximate- 200 BC-1600 AD reportedly used by the Maya, called “mis kok” or “x misib kok,” as a [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Africa; Ancient Egypt History: Song of Solomon 1:14 (for Garden of Eden reference); ”My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.” Cleopatra used cyrinium to seduce Mark Anthony. When she received him on her barge, she would scent the sails with cyprinium. The scene was described in [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas, US History: recent studies, through present day general phallic shape – studies by Dr. Alan Hirsch have found that the scent of cucumber and good-n-plenty candy stimulate vaginal blood flow Technique: psychological; physiological; smell Effect: well-being Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Southeast Asia, Nepal History: Makaradwaj (crocodile sex) is a complex alchemical aphrodisiac and longevity elixer still concocted in Nepal Crocodiles, ecology of swamplands, tend to be more biodiverse including many traditional signs of fertility Technique: Cultural/myth; biopsychological; physiological Effect: well-being; libido 2. Origin: Asia, India History: Ancient Indian Medical text Charaka Samhita: [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia History: The book of The Arabian nights tells a tale of a merchant who had been childless for 40 years and but was cured by a concoction that included coriander. Technique: Effect: fertility Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa, Uganda History: no specific dates- possibly to present day to treat “sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction, seeds of Coffea arabica, to roast beverage or to chew” vernacular name: mwani (Runyankore) Technique: Cultural/myth; medicinal; physiological Effect: cures impotence/premature ejaculation 2. Origin: Asia, Middle East History: present-day Coffee in Arab countries is popularly [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Americas History: present day use (Maya); compiled from reports from healers and personal observation (Arvigo and Balick 1993:47) “for male impotency: boil a 2.5 x 15 cm strip of bark in 3 cups water for 10 minutes and take 1 cup before meals for 7 days. If results are slow, double the strength of the [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Europe, England History: described by John Aubrey, English diarist as: ’a relique of Naturall Magick, an unlawful Philtrum’ “It was employed by girls seeking to attract a young man and consisted of a small piece of dough which the girl would knead and then press against her vulva. The dough, moulded to this shape, was [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia, China History: no specific dates used as a tonic for the “Yang” essence to increase sexual potency and increase libido. It is often used in combination with Cuscuta seed, as these two are said to work synergistically. Technique: Cultural/myth; physiological Effect: stimulant; increases fertility; cures impotence/premature ejaculation; increases libido; increases blood flow Reference: http://www.asiaandro.com/archive/1008-682X/5/243.htm Chye, [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China History: stimulant, used as spice or oil, that has strong antiseptic and stimulating properties.’ Essential oil acts as a painkiller in Ayuverdic Medicine Technique: physiological; medicinal Effect: stimulant Reference:
Category: Ingredient Origin: Europe, England History: ”The seed or leaves of garden clary taken in wine provokes to venery”–Nicholas Culpeper “The English Physician” Technique: Cultural/myth Effect: libido; lust/desire Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe; Ancient Rome History: in “De Hyoene Odorifera”, Petrus Castellus, prominent physician in Rome “To make the uterus more greedy for semen, they say that civet smeared on the glans penis will increase the woman’s pleasure during coitus, whence it [the uterus] will more readily receive the semen…which will cause so much desire [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia; native to Sri Lanka, India History: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. Come let us take our fill of love till morning.” (Proverbs 7, 17-18) (Warning Against the Adulteress) Technique: Smell; cultural/myth Effect: inspires love; seduction; lust/desire 2. Origin: Asia; Middle East History: 13th C. Al-Tifashi, Arab [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Americas History: earliest evidence for cacao cultivation and use is from an archaeological site in the coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico dating between 1800 and 1400 BC (pre-Olmec, “Barra”) also, Puerto Escondido, Honduras, which dates from 1100 to 1400 BC. Technique: Effect: 2. Origin: Americas, Aztec History: Earliest written evidence for use [...]