General Health Viagra can’t help you? Try yohimbe bark extract!
By Ben Wasserman
Dec 1, 2008 - 10:20:35 AM
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Monday Dec 1, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- Got impotence
and worse of all Viagra can’t help?
Researchers
published a study in July 2008 suggesting that yohimbine, a compound found in a
Chinese herb yobimbe, may be the drug you should try next.
Yobimbe has been used in Chinese medicine as an aphrodisiac
for thousands of years.
Yohimbine found
in yohimbe bark extract is known to increase blood flow to the penis and boosts
an erection.
Because of this it is used
to treat some types of impotence.
The study led by Senbel AM and Mostafa T of Alexandria
University, Alexandria, Egypt showed that rats treated with sildenafil along with yohimbine
increased their penetration frequency, intercourse frequency and the number of
ejaculations per session.
In the rat study, the researchers administered
sildenafil, Yohimbine or a combination of both intravenously and recorded
changes in sexual arousal and copulatory performance indices and intracavernosal
pressure/systemic arterial pressure (ICP/SAP) one and five minutes after
treatments.
Sildenafil in a dose equal to or greater than 10
micromol/kg increased ICP/SAP significantly.
Yohimbine alone did not potentiate erectile
responses but it in a dose of greater than or equal to 1 micromol/kg
potentiated the effect of Sildenafil at doses of 1 to 10 micromol/kg one and
five minutes after treatments.
They concluded "yohimbine may enhance and prolong
the effect of sildenafil on erectile process without additional hypotension.
Sildenafil may enhance the central effects of yohimbine on erection; it
amplifies the effect of yohimbine on male copulatory performance but not on
sexual motivation."