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F.A.Q.

The patient
question:
herb Damiana is indicated for the erection problem?

FitoNat
Replies:
Absolutely.

Damiana is the common name of Turnera Afrodisiaca, to the family of Turneraceae, from North America and the Caribbean. The alkaloid similar to strychnine, content in its leaves, stimulates the pelvic-sacral parasympathetic center that controls the mechanism for the erection. We must point out that this plant is also able to stimulate the center of ejaculation, then it is strongly contraindicated for patients who suffer from premature ejaculation.

 

The patient
question:
It 's true that honey has many beneficial properties for our health?

FitoNat
answers:
I would say yes of course.

Honey is a true gift of nature for human consumption. Unfortunately it is often produced in a forced, foraging bees with sugar dissolved in water, which deprives him of all those precious elements derived by the operator of the foraging bees. Honey is not just a sweetener, but it is a complete food. In fact eating bread and honey is equivalent to a full meal and highly energizing because it contains glucose, fructose, polysaccharides, organic acids, hormones such as acetylcholine and substance of the growth , vitamin C, B1, B2, PP, pantothenic acid, B6, biotin, minerals, trace elements, enzymes such as diastase, catalase and phosphatase, aromatic substances, amino acids and the inhibins that are substances antibiotic-like. Honey, notoriously used in the treatment of colds, it is useful in case of wound healing, detoxification from alcohol, nicotine, chemical additives and synthetic drugs by the liver. It has a sedative effect on the nervous system with a progressive increase of serotonin, thus improving the tone and psychic sleep. The presence of traces of pollen desensitization phenomena of allergy in asthmatic subjects, making honey an excellent immunological defense for immunocompromised patients.