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Damiana

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Turnera Diffusa · Mexican Damiana · "The Sexual Tonic Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily as a tonic for the sexual and urinary systems, specifically addressing weakness and exhaustion.

📖 Boericke writes:

(TURNERA)

Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotency. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people. Chronic prostatic discharge. Renal and cystic catarrh; frigidity of females. Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in young girls.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals experiencing nervous prostration, sexual debility, or the physical decline associated with aging.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Renal and cystic catarrh; frigidity of females.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture and fluid extract

Mother Tincture

🕒ten-to forty-drops doses

Primary Dosage

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Damiana is listed in 10 rubrics across 5 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System5 Nervous System2 Mind1 Female Sexual System1 Urinary System1