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reproductive system
impotence
botanicals

primary herbs

Aletris farinosa: continue for some months (Priest and Priest, p. 105)
Avena sativa: nervous, irritable patients, neurotonic (Ellingwood, p. 204; Harper-Shove, p. 111)
Coryanthe johimbe (toxic): sudden failure producing despondency and mental depression, from abuse (Ellingwood, p. 471)
Delphinium staphysagria (toxic): sexual disorders especially accompanied by melancholia, hysteria, hypochondriasis (Ellingwood, p. 455; Mitchell, p. 38)
Eupatorium purpureum: (Felter and Lloyd, p. 741)
Ginkgo biloba (standardized extract): for impotency due to arterial insufficiency (NCNM Botanicals)
Humulus lupulus: sexual irritation, spermatorrhea and dread of impotence (Ellingwood, p. 124)
Panax spp.: depressive states associated with sexual inadequacy; may be combined with Turnera diffusa and Serenoa spp. in glandular weakness (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 152)
Selenicereus grandiflorus (toxic): (Ellingwood, pp. 213, 214)
Serenoa repens or serrulata: absence of desire due to worry or hard work, sex hormone disorders (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 197; Harper-Shove, p. 111)
Strychnos ignatii (toxic): see indications (Ellingwood, p. 162)
Turnera diffusa: anxiety neurosis with a predominant sexual factor (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 220)


complementary herbs

• general nervous exhaustion: Avena sativa + Selenicereus grandiflorus (toxic) (Ellingwood, p. 213)
• elderly, feeble: Avena sativa + Serenoa spp. + Selenicereus grandiflorus (toxic) (Ellingwood, pp. 213, 214)


footnotes