Natural plants effective in treatment of sexual dysfunction: A review

Pharma Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 206-224

  Saini, N K ^a   Singhal, M ^a   Srivastava, B ^a   Sharma, S ^b  

^a JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arousal (plateau phase); Compulsive sexual behaviours (CSBs); Desire (excitement phase); Erectile dysfunction (ED); Female sexual dysfunction (FSD); Hypoactive sexual desire (HSD); Procreation (reproduction); Sexual dysfunction(SD)

Indexed keywords

APHRODISIAC AGENT; CNIDIUM MONNIER EXTRACT; COUMARIN; EUPHORBIA EXTRACT; EURYCOMA LONGIFOLIA EXTRACT; FLAVONOID; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINSENG SAPONIN; GINSENOSIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; OSTHOLE; PASSIFLORA INCARNATA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLYPHENOL; PTYCHOPETALUM OLACOIDES EXTRACT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TANNIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOHIMBINE;

ABSCESS; ACNE; ALLERGY; ALOPECIA; AMERICAN GINSENG; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BERIBERI; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRASSICACEAE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CNIDIUM; CNIDIUM MONNIER; COMMON COLD; COMPULSION; COMPULSIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CORYNANTHE YOHIMBE; COUGHING; DAMIANA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSENTERY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; ECZEMA; EJACULATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EUPHORBIA; EURYCOMA; EURYCOMA LONGIFOLIA; FAILURE OF DETUMESCENCE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE STERILITY; FLATULENCE; FLOWER; FURUNCULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL WEAKNESS; GINKGO BILOBA; GINSENG; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART WEAKNESS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; IMPOTENCE; INDIGESTION; INFERTILITY; LEPIDIUM PERUVIANUM; LEUKORRHEA; LIBIDO DISORDER; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG DISEASE; MACA; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEMORY DISORDER; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; OLACACEAE; ORGASM; ORGASM DISORDER; OSTEOPOROSIS; PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUS; PARALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PASSIFLORA INCARNATA; PASSION FRUIT; PENIS ERECTION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PTYCHOPETALUM OLACOIDES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RUBIACEAE; SCABIES; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TERMINALIA CATAPPA; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TINEA; TONGKAT ALI; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; TUNERA DIFFUSA; VAGINAL PRURITUS; VULVA PRURITUS; WEAKNESS;

EID: 79954611877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09758216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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