Muira puama is often used for preventing sexual disorders, and as an aphrodisiac. It raises libido and ameliorates the ability to maintain penile erections; and in addition acts as adaptogen, anti-fatigue, anti-stress agent. It can be employed alone or in combination with other herbs.
It is used as a nerve stimulant, for dyspepsia, menstrual irregularities, rheumatism, paralysis caused by poliomyelitis, a general tonic, and as an appetite stimulant. Damiana (Turnera diffusa/Turnera aphrodisiaca); is a bush native to Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. The medicinal part of the plant is its leaves, which are reaped during the flowering season. Damiana is found throughout Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, as well as in parts of South America. Turnera diffusa and T. aphrodisiaca are commonly reputed the same plant in herbal commerce.
A closely-related species, T. ulmifolia, is similar in the visual aspect, but it has different conventional medicinal uses. The botanical Latin name of the plant, Turnera aphrodisiaca, reports its ancient use as an aphrodisiac. With such an ancient history of traditional uses worldwide, it is not strange that the plant appears in many books on herbal remedies released worldwide.
Damiana is widely acquirable on health food and natural product shops in a diversity of forms - from tea blends, capsules and tablets to liquid tinctures and extracts. Most herb doctors choose to apply damiana in combination with additional medicinal plants; consequently, it can be encountered in quite a few herbal combination formulas for sexual potency, weight loss, depression, hormonal balancing, and overall tonics.
Damiana components include as many as 35 compounds including flavonoids, terpenoids, saccharides, and cyanogenic glycosides. Some of these include triacontane, beta-sitosterol, hexacosanol, 5-hydroxy-7,3,4-trimethoxyflavone, arbutin, tannins, resins, hydroquinone glycosides, luteolin 8-C-E-propenoic acid, and others.
The awareness related to the adversities of cigarette smoking is very low when it comes to erectile dysfunction. The smokers who are reading this article, I request them to analyze and weigh up their situation. If you have experienced the above mentioned symptoms related to your sexual life, you are in a deep soup.
At the same time the situation is not irreversible. You can go back to your healthy sexual self just by quitting cigarette smoke. If the level of addiction is too high, there are therapies and medicinal help available for quitting cigarette, seek help from your doctor. Quit smoking right now so that you do not have to spend money on Viagra in future. Rather leave this smoking habit altogether, you will save your health, your sexuality and your money for a better life ahead.
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