Avena Sativa (Oats)

How Avena Sativa Works

Did you ever wonder where the expression "sow your wild oats" came from and why? Avena Sativa, or oats, have long been used by breeders to help male animals "sow their oats" or boost their fertility. Avena Sativa is one of the best remedies to feed the nervous system when under stress and strengthen it to handle the situation. It works to calm down performance anxiety.

Avena Sativa (oats) is rich in body-building nutrients including silicon, manganese, zinc, calcium, phosphorus and Vitamins A, B1, B2 and E. In cases of sexual problems related to stress and anxiety, Avena Sativa and its compounds work as nervine relaxants to ease tension, strengthen and support the nervous system and as a tonic to promote energy to handle the stress. This helps reduce over-excitability and facilitates better sexual performance.

Possible Benefits

• Boosts fertility
• Improves sexual performance
• Relieves performance anxiety
• Helps lower triglyceride level
• Promotes eCombats fatigue and exhaustionnergy
• Strengthens the heart
• Reduces craving for nicotine
• Facilitates the detoxification process
• Good for urinary organs and ailments like fibroids and candidiasis
• Aids with anxiety disorders and A.D.D.
• Emphysema, lung, and immune support
• Helps relieve migraine headaches
• Aids digestion
• Reduces water retention

Usage Guidelines

No adverse effects unless you have a gluten-sensitivity

Damiana

How Damiana Works

Damiana is found in hot and humid climates including parts of Texas and Mexico. Damiana is one of the most popular and safest herbs to restore natural sexual capacities and functions and has been used as an aphrodisiac, going back to ancient Mayan times. This potent aphrodisiac is a wonderful sexual rejuvenator and stimulator known for its help with impotence and as a general tonic to improve all body functions.

Damiana contains substances called terpenes, beta-sitoserol, arbutin, alkaloids and various aromatic oils that have a stimulant effect on the sexual apparatus and help to build sexual health and reproductivity. These nutrients work to restore and enhance sexual functions by increasing blood flow to the organs and for overall health of the sexual reproductive system. Damiana also works as a tonic for nervous or sexual debility.

Possible Benefits

• Potent aphrodisiac and sexual stimulant
• Improves sexual desire and sexual performance
• Increases blood circulation to the organs
• Increases sperm count in males and strengthens eggs in females
• Alleviates anxiety and promotes sense of well-being
• Promotes energy and helps with weakness and exhaustion
• Helps balance female hormones and alleviate menopause symptoms
• Helps relieve constipation
• Helps with bronchitis and asthma

Usage Guidelines

Damiana is most effective when combined with similar herbs to complement its activity, especially saw palmetto berry. High dosages may induce a mild sense of euphoria.

Ginkgo Biloba

Ginkgo Biloba is an ancient tree found in China and Japan, and this species has been around for over 200 million years. Its leaves are used medicinally as an ancient Chinese remedy for coughs, asthma and treatment of inflammation due to allergies. Ginkgo Biloba increases the blood flow and oxygen to the brain to help alleviate memory-related problems. This increased circulation may also be beneficial to help men achieve and maintain an erection.

How Ginkgo Biloba Works

Ginkgo Biloba contains terpene lactones called ginkgolides and bilobalides, which exert a positive effect on the vascular system of blood vessels, and to help deliver blood and oxygen to the organs, improve circulation and enhance the nervous system. This increase of blood flow benefits the brain and lower extremities and helps to regulate the tone and elasticity of blood vessels. Studies have shown that Ginkgo Biloba can be effective in the treatment of erectile dysfunction due to lack of blood flow. It also works as an expectorant to provide asthma and allergy relief. Ginkgo Biloba and its flavone glycosides offer excellent antioxidant properties to eliminate free radicals and maintain healthy blood cells.

Possible Benefits

• Improves memory, relieves signs of senility and slows progression of Alzheimer symptoms
• Improves sexual desire and sexual performance
• Improves blood flow and circulation to the organs and extremities
• Lessens depression and anxiety
• May restore erections in met with impotence
• Helpful with phlebitis in terms of better circulation
• Helps with vertigo and tinnitus by delivering increased blood flow to ears
• Used to treat hemorrhoids
• Great antioxidant to prevent premature aging, illness and disease
• Good for coughs, asthma and inflammation due to allergies
• Protects the nerves

Usage Guidelines

Long term use of Ginkgo Biloba is believed to be safe. No known serious side effects or adverse reactions.

Korean Ginseng

Korean Ginseng, or Panax Ginseng, is a brown, gnarled root about the size of a little finger, that resembles the shape of the human body. It is sometimes referred to as a "manroot" or "root of man." Korean Ginseng grows primarily in China and is also known as Chinese Ginseng. It has been used there for over 5.000 years and is considered the strongest form of ginseng. Korean Ginseng is used in China as a preventative tonic to stimulate the entire body to overcome stress, fatigue and weakness. It helps the body to adapt to stress and to regenerate and rebuild the sexual centers.

How Korean Ginseng Works

Korean Ginseng contains thirteen different ginsenosides. Panaxans help to lower blood sugar, polysaccharides work to enhance the immune system and its antioxidant properties are immune-stimulating to protect the body from illness, disease and stress. Korean Ginseng helps to stimulate production of immune cells called "killer T-cells" that destroy viruses and bacteria. It balances the release of stress hormones by supporting the organs that produce them (the hypothalamus and the pituitary and adrenal glands). Korean Ginseng helps produce endorphins to make people feel good. Its sexual benefits work to improve erectile function and to increase testosterone and sperm count.

Possible Benefits

• Physical restorative and preventative tonic for health and illness prevention
• Healthy for heart and good circulation
• Normalizes blood pressure
• Improves blood flow and circulation to the organs and extremities
• Reduces cholesterol
• Lowers blood sugar
• Helps to prevent arteriosclerosis
• Improves vision and hearing activity
• Sexual stimulant, enhances sexual desire and improves impotency and low sperm count
• Improves athletic performance and increases endurance and stamina
• Helps with the discomforts of menopause
• May inhibit tumor growth, good cancer preventative effects

Usage Guidelines

People who are pregnant or taking MAO inhibitor drugs should not use this herb. Korean Ginseng is very stimulating so it should be taken early in the day. High dosages could make some jittery. Check with your doctor before taking if you have high blood pressure. In rare cases, postmenopausal women may experience vaginal bleeding due to its mildly estrogenic effect. If this happens, let your doctor know you are taking Korean Ginseng so this won't be mistaken for a sign of uterine cancer.

Maca

Maca root is a rainforest herb that grows wild in the Peruvian Andes. The rough terrain of the this region made it difficult to cultivate foods so the Andean people had to depend on wild plants, Maca root, and other herbs as staples in their daily diet. This turnip-looking herb contains many amino acids, vitamins B1, B2, B, 12, C and E, and calcium, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium, and iron. The Andeans believed it enhanced their energy level and kept them healthy. Inca warriors ate Maca root to give them stamina before a battle.

How Maca Works

The whole Maca root can be eaten raw, sliced, cooked, boiled or baked, or taken as a supplement in the form of tablets, capsules, or a liquid extract. For best results, read and follow product label directions.

Possible Benefits

• Increase energy and support immune system
• Treats anemia
• Cure impotence
• Alleviates menopausal symptoms
• Lubricates athritic joints
• Aids fertility
• Increase sexual endurance
• Increase sperm activity and quantity

Usage Guidelines

No known toxic effects or drug interactions.

Muira Puama

Muira Puama is a native shrub with white flowers found in Brazil and the Amazon forest area. It is known as "potency wood" for its properties to improve sexual function. It is used as a traditional aphrodisiac in Brazil, where Muira Puama is known as being a powerful aphrodisiac, nerve stimulant and to help with sexual debility, impotence and menstrual disturbances. Muira Puama has been used successfully in France studies to treat erectile dysfunction and to improve libido. It is also good for the gastrointestinal and reproductive systems.

How Muira Puama Works

Muira Puama contains a phytochemical called lupeol and fatty acids, essential oils, plant sterols and triterpenes. These substances work to enhance the psychological and physical aspects of sexual function.

Possible Benefits

• Sexual stimulant and aphrodisiac
• Improves sexual desire and enhances libido
• Central nervous system tonic
• Increases testosterone levels
• Combats fatigue and exhaustion
• Helps men attain and maintain erection
• Improves circulation to the prostate
• Helps with menstrual problems like cramps and PMS
• Healthy for the reproductive system
• Helps with neuromuscular problems
• Good stomach tonic

Usage Guidelines

No known toxic effects or drug interactions.

Saw Palmetto Berry

Saw Palmetto is a small palm tree that grows wild from Texas to South Carolina, and it is a native plant to North America. Its life span is approximately 700 years. Saw Palmetto bears blue-black berries that are used medicinally. They have long been used in Europe and the United States by herbalists to treat problems of the geritourinary tract in both sexes. Saw Palmetto is known for its aphrodisiac properties, as well as being helpful in maintaining a proper hormone balance in the prostate gland, which is necessary for optimal sexual function. It is used by doctors in Italy, Germany and France for benign enlargement of the prostate. Honeymooners use Saw Palmetto as a cure for too much sexual activity.

How Saw Palmetto Works

Saw Palmetto provides sterols and the fatty acids caproic, lauric and palmitic to help the prostate and discourage inflammation. It strengthens and tones the male reproductive system, and it is reputed to have aphrodisiac effects to improve sexual desire and sex drive.

Possible Benefits

• Increases sperm production and sex drive
• Helps with impotence
• Boosts immunity and works as a general tonic
• Builds stamina and endurance
• Increases nutrition to the testicles
• Inhibits growth factors and inflammatory substances that contribute to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostatitis (NBP)
• Eases urination and symptoms of enlarged prostate; reduces nighttime urination
• Helps with urinary tract infections and improves urinary flow rate
• Builds tissue
• Relieves persistent coughs
• Healthy for the reproductive system
• Tones and strengthens the male reproductive system
• Boosts male sex hormones

Usage Guidelines

Combines well with Damiana for aphrodisiac and reproductive system benefits. Takes approximately one month to be effective for prostate benefits. No toxic effects known and no significant side effects. Men with prostate cancer should consult their doctor first before taking Saw Palmetto, because it affects hormone levels.

Tribulus Terrestris

Tribulus terrestris is a plant that flourishes in many tropical to moderate areas of the world. Traditionally, Tribulus terrestris is known as a mood-enhancing smoke, tea, or decoction. Ancient Greeks used Tribulus terrestris as a diuretic and a mood-enhancer. In ancient Chinese medicine, it was used for a variety of liver, kidney, and cardiovascular diseases. Indians used it as a diuretic, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory. Tribulus terrestris is a testosterone enhancer. More recently, eastern European athletes have used it to improve strength and stamina.

How Tribulus Terrestris Works

Experts recommend taking between 750 to 1,250 mg per day, divided among meals, and stacking it with about 100 mg per day of DHEA, along with around 100 mg per day of androstenedione for optimum results. For other uses, read product label directions.

Possible Benefits

• Treatment for impotence
• Enhance sexual drive and performance
• Raises testosterone levels
• Increases sperm production and testosterone levels
• Increases the concentration of hormones
• Improves reproductive function and libido
• Helps to convert fats and cholesterol to energy
• Faster recuperation and recovery from muscular exertion and stress

Usage Guidelines

Although Tribulus terrestris is a safe non-hormonal food supplement, about one in ten people have associated some gastrointestinal upset while taking Tribulus terrestris. To minimize the effects of gastrointestinal upset, take with food. Do not use while pregnant. Safety in young children, nursing women, or those with severe illnesses is unknown.

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