Herbs for A Healthy Sex Life

IF you are healthy, everything works. Sexual health relates to unity, a partnership with no coercion, said Dr Mohd Ismail Tamby, an andrologist or specialist in sexual and reproductive health medicine, at a Bio-Life health seminar in Kuala Lumpur recently.

In the tests, three internationally recognised Quality of Life (QOL) scores were used: Ageing Male Symptoms, Sexual Health Inventory for Men (SHIM) and Grade of Erection.

Dr Ismail was also there to reveal the positive results in sexual health he had recorded, over a six-week period, after evaluating the response of 50 male subjects to a herbal product containing Horny Goat Weed, ginseng, ginkgo, puncture vine, muira puama, withania and damiana.

“Herbs are food forms that have to be taken every day for some time to see the changes taking place. These bring about positive changes, adapt into your system and improve your level of wellness. This food substance is adaptogen.

“The commonest adaptogen is ginseng, which gives a lot of goodness to your system. It has food functional properties and has been used to boost health. In the supplement for sexual health, most of the herbal extracts are associated with wellness.”

Two of the herbs in the supplement are withania and damiana. Withania acts as an adaptogen to fight the effects of stress. Damiana stimulates the natural desire for sex. “You feel more relaxed, as that part of the body becomes more intense and the drive increases. You are not taking drugs but food which changes something in your body.”

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