Damiana
Remedy of sexual debility and nervous exhaustion. Impotence from nervous causes. Sexual neurasthenia. Improves sexual vigor. Frequent urination. Chronic cystitis. Used as herbal aphrodisiac.
Source
Prepared from the leaves of Turnera diffusa (Passifloraceae/Turneraceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Sexual debility from nervous causes — the chief indication. Impotence. Frequent nocturnal emissions. Sexual neurasthenia. Improves sexual vigor and function. Frequent urination. Chronic cystitis. Used extensively as an herbal aphrodisiac and nerve tonic. Migraine with sexual debility.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Depressed from sexual debility. Nervous, exhausted. Cannot concentrate.
General Symptoms
Sexual and nervous. Worse from sexual excess, cold. Better from warmth, rest, eating.
Physical Symptoms
Male Genitalia
Impotence from nervous causes. Sexual debility. Nocturnal emissions. Spermatorrhea. Improves sexual function.
Female Genitalia
Sexual debility. Frigidity. Leucorrhea.
Urinary
Frequent urination. Chronic cystitis. Burning.
Head
Migraine with sexual debility.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, rest, eating
Worse From
Sexual excess, cold, night
Constitutional Type
Sexually debilitated, nervous individuals.
Clinical Indications
Sexual debility, impotence, spermatorrhea, chronic cystitis, sexual neurasthenia, frigidity
Comparative Materia Medica
Agnus castus has impotence with cold genitalia. Avena sativa is a nerve tonic. Selenium has sexual weakness with emissions. Tribulus has sexual debility with prostate.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Damiana is widely used as an herbal aphrodisiac and nerve tonic. Non-toxic. Available as tea, capsules, liqueurs (Damiana liqueur). Safe in all potencies and mother tincture.
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