Gingko Biloba, Your Dopaminergic Brain Viagra. Plant Extract Stimulates Sexual Arousal via the Paraventricular Nucleus and the Mesolimbic System.
Image 1: Gingko biloba trees are one of a kind, with no close living relatives (image Schwabe Pharm .) I bet you got one of those Viagra spam mails, today, as well, didn't you? Well, although I assume you would not need the small blue pills, anyway, you may be interest to read that researchers from the People's Republic of China may have found a viable Viagra alternative in a longstanding (pun intended ;-) ingredient of Traditional Chinese (and meanwhile also Western) Medicine : Gingko biloba . In order to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of previously ( Yeh. 2010 ) observed beneficial effects of Ginkgo biloba extract on noncontact erections in male rats, Yeh et al. ( Yeh. 2011 ) recorded both copulation, as well as non-contact erections in a group of 20 male Long-Evans (telling name, isn't it?) rats, which had been randomly assigned to a treatment ( 50mg/kg body weight Gingko biloba extract [EGb 761 from Schwabe Pharmac...
