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Applied Sciences, 2023 Consumption of aphrodisiacs is a common practice in South Africa. Hence, determining the levels of trace metals as potential pollutants is necessary to protect consumers’ health.
Siphesihle Dube +6 more
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Sciences of Phytochemistry, 2023 This study aimed to explore the phytochemical profile, heavy metal composition, in silico aphrodisiac potential, and ADMET study of Gardenia erubescens due to its folkloric acclaimed aphrodisiac use.
Enoch Buba Badgal +2 more
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The Gendered Ideologies of Naming Traditional Male Aphrodisiacs in Lesotho
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 This article examines the naming practices employed for traditional male Sesotho aphrodisiacs with the aim of unveiling the ideologies reflected and promoted by these names.
Lipuo Motene
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Pharmacology of Herbal Sexual Enhancers: A Review of Psychiatric and Neurological Adverse Effects
Pharmaceuticals, 2020 Sexual enhancers increase sexual potency, sexual pleasure, or libido. Substances increasing libido alter the concentrations of specific neurotransmitters or sex hormones in the central nervous system.
Pietro Brunetti +4 more
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Free serum testosterone level in male rats treated with tribulus alatus extracts
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2007 OBJECTIVE: The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of Tribulus alatus extracts on free serum testosterone in male rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Free serum testosterone level was measured in male rats treated with alcoholic extracts of ...
Walid H. El-Tantawy +2 more
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Crocus sativus (saffron) in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction: a three-center, double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled clinical trial [PDF]
Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine, 2022 Objective: One of the traditional aphrodisiacs used in various cultures is Crocus sativus, commonly called saffron. Previous studies have pointed to the possible applicability of saffron for sexual dysfunction in both men and women.
Ladan Kashani +7 more
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Journal of Arrhythmia, 2017 Classically derived from toad venom, bufadienolides are a group of cardioactive steroids with properties similar to digoxin. Some traditional Chinese medications, including several aphrodisiacs, contain bufadienolides.
Maxwell Bressman +3 more
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2023 Within various African cultures, discussion of sexuality is typically secretive and reticent. Because of the multiple and sometimes contradictory narratives about sexuality, researching it in this context remains a very sensitive and knitted terrain ...
Oluwatobi Alabi
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Les plantes de l’amour à La Réunion
Études Créoles, 2017 On Reunion Island, phytotherapy is omnipresent and the plants found on the island are frequently associated with everyday use. More specifically, some plants are used for intimate reasons, which are split among masculine and feminine uses based on their ...
Laurence Pourchez
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European Journal of Entomology, 2006 Two principal pheromones are essential in all cockroach sexual behavioral sequences: the volatile sex attractant pheromone released by one partner for long distance attraction and an aphrodisiac sex pheromone produced exclusively by male tergal glands ...
Leam SRENG
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