Common name: Damiana
"Damiana was used by the Aztecs for impotency.
Mexican women were also known to use the fragrant leaves in tea to stimulate love making in their men.
The Damiana plant is so important that it has been classified in Mexico as a "national treasure" and is now a prohibited export as a live plant."
Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotency. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people. Chronic prostatic discharge. Renal and cystic catarrh; frigidity of females. Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in young girls.
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August 2, 2013· 1 min read
Common name: Damiana "Damiana was used by the Aztecs for impotency. Mexican women were also known to use the fragrant leaves in tea to stimulate love making in their men. The Damiana plant is so important that it has been classified in Mexico as a "national treasure" and is now a prohibited export
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