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: 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: 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 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 Origin: Asia; India History: 15-16th century main ingredient in a recipe for chickpea cakes mentioned in the Ananga Ranga ”if eaten every morning…you will be able to enjoy a hundred women.” Technique: Cultural/myth Effect: sexual strength/stamina Reference: Ravicz, Marilyn Ekdahl United States Xlibris 2000
Category: Ingredient Origin: Middle East; Asia (native to India) History: 15th C. Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi The Perfumed Garden CHAPTER 13 Concerning the Causes of Enjoyment in the Act of Generation If you would make the enjoyment still more voluptuous, masticate a little cubeb-pepper or cardamom grains of the large species; put a certain quantity of it [...]
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; Middle East History: Ancient Hebrews used caper berries for sexual stimulation. When the preacher of Ecclesiastes describes old age as when desire should fail which in literal Hebrew translates as “when the caper berry fails” Technique: Cultural/myth Effect: increases libido; cures impotence/premature ejaculation Reference: Ecclesiastes 12:5
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; Thailand History: reportedly used in traditional medicine for over 100 years. also known as “Red Kwao Krua” Technique: physiological; biopsychological Effect: influences testosterone levels; erection Reference: http://www.asiaandro.com/archive/1008-682X/5/243.htm
Category: Ingredient Origin: Asia; Ancient Egypt History: 5000 bc to 250 bc the blue lily was linked to fertility and sexuality and now, thanks to chemical analysis by the egyptian section of the Manchester Museum it is chemically proven to be an active stimulant. Technique: Cultural/myth; physiological; biochemical; biopsychological Effect: stimulant Reference: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/lotus.htm
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; India History: Stimulant, love magic agent, contains alkaloids– has irritating effects on mucous membranes. Cubeb pepper (Piper Cubeba) has substances that stimulate the sex drive. Technique: Science; physiological; biopsychological; psychological; Effect: stimulant; libido
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 [...]