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Horny Goat Weed and male/female sexual problems
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London, Jully 30 : Low libido? You can try out the soft green heart-shaped leaf of the horny goat weed instead of the common anti-impotence pills, for a new study has revealed that it could also rekindle your sexual desire.
Researchers in Italy have based their findings on an experiment involving four plants used as natural aphrodisiacs in traditional cultures.
The active compound of common anti-impotence pills, sildenafil, works by inhibiting an enzyme, phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5). Because PDE5 helps control blood flow to the penis, inhibiting PDE5 promotes male erection.
In their study, the researchers tested the four plants in vitro to see how efficient they were inhibiting PDE5. Just one -- Epimedium brevicornum, known as horny goat weed – had an effect, the 'New Scientist' reported. Sildenafil, however, is 80 times more effective at inhibiting PDE5 than icariin.
So, the researchers extracted icariin from the plants, and produced six modified versions of it, which they tested on PDE5 also. "The most efficient of these, compound 5, works as well as Viagra," Mario Dell'Agli of Milan University said.
A drug made from compound 5 could also cause fewer side effects than Viagra, according to them. In addition to PDE5, sildenafil affects other phosphodiesterases, including some that are essential to sight and heart function.
As a result, people having heart problems are not advised to take the drug and patients who do take the drug sometimes suffer disturbances to their eyesight.
Preliminary tests suggest that compound 5 does not affect other phosphodiesterases, meaning it may not have the same side effects as the common anti-impotence pills.
"If people eat horny goat weed, I think it can be beneficial as it contains icariin," Dell'Agli said.
Researchers in Italy have based their findings on an experiment involving four plants used as natural aphrodisiacs in traditional cultures.
The active compound of common anti-impotence pills, sildenafil, works by inhibiting an enzyme, phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5). Because PDE5 helps control blood flow to the penis, inhibiting PDE5 promotes male erection.
In their study, the researchers tested the four plants in vitro to see how efficient they were inhibiting PDE5. Just one -- Epimedium brevicornum, known as horny goat weed – had an effect, the 'New Scientist' reported. Sildenafil, however, is 80 times more effective at inhibiting PDE5 than icariin.
So, the researchers extracted icariin from the plants, and produced six modified versions of it, which they tested on PDE5 also. "The most efficient of these, compound 5, works as well as Viagra," Mario Dell'Agli of Milan University said.
A drug made from compound 5 could also cause fewer side effects than Viagra, according to them. In addition to PDE5, sildenafil affects other phosphodiesterases, including some that are essential to sight and heart function.
As a result, people having heart problems are not advised to take the drug and patients who do take the drug sometimes suffer disturbances to their eyesight.
Preliminary tests suggest that compound 5 does not affect other phosphodiesterases, meaning it may not have the same side effects as the common anti-impotence pills.
"If people eat horny goat weed, I think it can be beneficial as it contains icariin," Dell'Agli said.
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Freedom slogans reverberate in SP school Srinagar
Srinagar, July 30 (Writer-South Asia) : In disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, pro-freedom slogans
reverberated at the SP School in Srinagar, today, during a public meet
“Kashmir: The road to peace” organized by the New Delhi-based Center for
Policy Analysis (CPA) with the aim to spread awareness about the
Kashmir dispute.
The participants mostly youth raised pro-freedom and anti-India
slogans inside the auditorium of the SP School after coming to know that
veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani was not allowed by
the National Conference laid authorities to attend the meet due to the curbs on his
movement.
The sloganeering left the organizers surprised as they made desperate
efforts to persuade the youth. It also disrupted the speech of the agriculture minister for at least ten minutes.
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