Category: Ingredient Origin: Global History: In Essence and Alchemy Mandy Aftel writes, It is truly the fecal essence of our most pungent bodily odors that draws us, even as it repels us. The precarious balance between arousal and disgust is sexual in its very nature, creating erotic tension and heightening arousal. It manifests itself in the pervasiveness of [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Oceania, Australia History: recent – no specific dates Australian artist, Ivan Durant accidental discovery Technique: physiological Effect: increase libido Reference: URL: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/headlines/will-egg-dust-become-new-viagra%3F-457
Category: Ingredient Origin: Global History: That eggs would be eaten for fertility and potency is an obvious association; they are a type of womb, and their yolks nourish their embryos. Eggs were sacred symbols of the earth’s regeneration in pagan spring equinox celebra- tions (which gave rise to the tradition of Easter eggs). The Perfumed Garden declares that [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia, China History: The use of the dried penis of deer, tigers, seals, and beavers are used in Chinese sex tonics Technique: Cultural/myth; medicinal Effect: libido; stimulant Reference:
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 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 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 Origin: Europe History: Made from the crushed dried bodies of “Green Blister Beetles” Related to production of Spanish Fly Legend that a legion of Nineteenth Century French soldiers “stood at attention” for prolonged periods after feasting on frogs who had themselves been dining on canthardin-laden beetles Technique: physiological?? Effect: erection; increase libido Reference:
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Asia; China–Ming Dynasty History: Emperor Shih Tsung kept 460 young virgins on hand to supply menstrual blood for his longevity/aphrodisiac elixer. Technique: Cultural/myth Effect: well-being; seduction 2. Origin: Europe History: some 20th century gynecology textbooks discuss a “menotoxin” located in menstrual blood. Not far from wrong, there in increasing evidence that trimelthylamine, which [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; China History: Ants (ALSO SEE GENEANTHROPOELA) Medieval aphrodisiac recipe that appears in Sinibaldus, contained dried black ants. Oil was poured over them and they were enclosed in a glass jar. Technique: Effect: Reference:
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; China, Borneo History: According to legend, long ago in China, there was an Emperor who loved to taste different gourmet dishes made by the Royal Cook. Each dish was exotic and different every day. If the cook fails to provide a new dish for the Emperor, not only will he lose his position [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Oceania; Asia; Philippines History: no specific dates – balut is a boiled duck egg containing an embryo or fetus eaten by men as a sexual stimulant, but never by women, who may eat it for energy or nutrition generally sold at night or early morning “balut ang gamot sa naghihinang tuhod”. In english [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe; Ancient Rome History: Pliny the Elder, ”Natural History” 28.261-62. 77-79 AD. Chapter 80 – Stimulants for the Sexual Passions “Among the aphrodisiacs, we find mentioned…the dried testes of a horse, pulverized and mixed with the drink. The right testicle, also, of an ass, is taken in a proportionate quantity of wine, or worn attached [...]
Category: Ingredient 1. Origin: Europe; France History: exact year unknown. Madame du Barry used the scent of ambergris to hold the love interest of Louis XV (circa 1768-1774) Technique: Cultural/myth?? Effect: inspires love; seduction 2. Origin: Asia; Caucus Azerbijan History: 17th C. AD. Hasan ibn Riza Shirvani, physician said to strengthen the brain and heart, as [...]