Turnera aphrodisiaca
Turnera diffusa (Damiana) · Plant · Passifloraceae
Damiana suits both men and women with sexual debility from various causes: exhaustion, injury, or previous infections. Also benefits those with fatigue and migraines who lack vital energy.
Key symptoms
- Amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea in women
- Impotence and sterility in men
- Spermatorrhea and prostate affections
- Leucorrhea and incontinence of urine
- Severe migraine causing inability to function
- Fatigue and weakness after wearisome journeys
Turnera aphrodisiaca. Damiana. N. O. Turneraceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Fatigue. Impotence. Leucorrhœa. Migraine. Prostate, affections of. Spermatorrhœa. Sterility. Urine, incontinence of.
Characteristics
Hale has collected from old-school sources much experience respecting this drug, showing its power over the genito-urinary system. The herb Damiana (the local name of Turn. a.), has long been a domestic medicine in Mexico, where it is used to "invigorate the system." Indian hunters discovered that a decoction of it was a great invigorator after wearisome journeys; and they also found in it a cure for inability to exercise the reproductive functions in both sexes. Hale gives many cases illustrating the latter. Among the causes of the defect in the cured cases are injury to spine from a fall; sexual excess; syphilis or gonorrhœa, in the men; and amenorrhœa, dysmenorrhœa, and leucorrhœa in the women. Douglass (Hahn Ad., xxxix. 660) reports three cases of incontinence of …
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