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e production of sex hormones in both sexes. It has no noted sideeffects though, as with many sexual stimulants, it can slightlyraise blood pressure.Muira Puama has also been used for stress management, nervoussystem stimulation and for general overall health. Two Frenchstudies showed that muira Puama seemed to improve libido and sexualfunction. Scientists also believe that this herb increasestestosterone levels, though this has not yet been clinicallyproven.
It has been used to tonify the nervous system and to treat cases ofmild exhaustion. It can also help with gastrointestinal andreproductive disorders, while it''s anti-rheumatic properties havebeen used for treating stress and trauma.
Muira Puama is still employed around the world today in herbalmedicine. In Brazil and South American herbal medicine, it is useda neuromuscular tonic, for asthenia, paralysis, chronic rheumatism,sexual impotency, grippe, ataxia, and central nervous systemdisorders. In Europe, it has used to treat impotency, infertility,neurasthenia, menstrual disturbances and dysentery. Because of thelong history of use of Muira Puama in England, it is still listedin the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, a noted source on herbalmedicine from the British Herbal Medicine Association, where it isrecommended for the treatment of dysentery and impotence. It hasbeen gaining in popularity in the United States where herbalistsand health care practitioners are using muira Puama for impotency,menstrual cramps and PMS, neurasthenia and central nervous systemdisorders.
Muira Puama Extract
