Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia, Middle East, India History: 5000-2300 BC Sumerian cuneiform writings The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi “Bridegroom, let me caress you, My precious caress is more savory than honey, In the bedchamber, honey filled, Let us enjoy your goodly beauty, Lion, let me caress you, My precious caress is more savory [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa, Uganda History: no specific dates to treat “sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction, leaves of Cannabis sativa, to chew VO[taken orally]. or to smoke, inhaling fumes” vernacular name: njayi ( Luganda), njaga (Runyankore), mbangi (Swahili) Technique: cultural/myth Effect: cure impotence; erectile dysfunction 2. Origin: Asia History: no specific dates earliest mention [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe, Italy, France History: Mentioned in the Salerno Book of Health (Salerno Sanitatis Salernitanum), written by faculty at the Salernum. The earliest Italian Medical school in Salerno, it incorporated elements of Classical, Jewish, and Arab medicine. “Within the stomach, loins, and in the lung Praise of hot ginger rightly may be sung. It [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa, Uganda History: no dates specified to treat “sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction, stem, bulb, leaves, roots of Allium sativum, to chew, to cook, VO[taken orally] in H2O and in in food” vernacular name: tungurusumu (Rukonjo) Technique: cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: cure impotence and erectile dysfunction 2. Origin: Asia, India History: An Indian [...]
a Tunisian physician who was the immediate source of Constantine’s prescriptions. touts ginger as aphrodisiac of choice also touts benefits of galangal
The premiere sexologist of the middle ages. -wrote De Coitu (On Sexual Intercourse) – collection of recipes and rituals (kissing, staring longingly into eyes, etc) -see pg 185 < of Spice Book URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_African
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 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 1. Origin: Americas; Aztec History: Widely used in Aztec culture, and mentioned as an aphrodisiac in the records of Acosta and Hernandez book 3, chapter chili Technique: Cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: well-being 2. Origin: Americas History: widely used in traditional foods, with the earliest record of pepper use comes from archaeological investigations in the Valley of [...]
CATEGORY: Ingredient 1. Origin: Africa; Ancient Egypt History: from a papyrus dating to the Middle Kingdom, recipe for poultice to treat impotence: ‘leaves of Christ thorn, 1, leaves of acacia, 1, honey, 1; grind the leaves in the honey and apply as a bandage. Dated to 1700 BC-Middle Kingdom Technique: Science, medicinal Effect: cures impotence/premature [...]