Muira Puama Tincture

Ptychopetalum olacoides

Common name: Muira puama

Family: Olacaceae

Part used: Bark and roots

Habitat: Muira puama is a small tree antive to the Amazon river basin, the name is similar in various local languages and roughly translates as 'potency wood'.

Actions: Aphrodisiac, astringent, stimulant, dopaminergic nervine, nervine tonic, noradrenergic, appetite stimulant

Traditional and current uses:

• To increase libido and sexual potency in men and women
• Impotence
• Low libido
• Loss of appetitie
• Diarrhea
• Painful periods
• Nerve pain
• Tremor
• Dark pigmentation around the eyes
• Parkinson's disease 
• Traditionally taken in some Amazonian communities for 'nervous weakness' which includes depression, sexual impotence, tremors, debility. 
• Indigestion

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