I was stunned to read this as I don’t really know much about the disease rabies, whic his a disease that used to strike fear into the heart of me as a child because it was so ingrained in kids that you had to stay away from wild animals and dogs that were acting violent.

Rabies, as you know, is a disease which strikes primarily animals, but is also transmissable to humans by bite from a rabid animal.  It is also the subject of movies that are heartbreaking to kids, and the subject of a particularly terrifying (yet excellent) novel by horror novelist Stephen King.

It can be fatal if it is not caught in time, and animals that are outside are recommended to get shots to prevent it, and boosters to keep the rabies-preventing vaccine working over the years.

One of the interesting things I just learned is that, in humans at least, a really out of control sex drive can be a hallmark of rabies.  The unexplained sudden increase in libido, whether in a man or woman, since it can affect both sexes the same way, is a side effect of rabies inflaming the brain tissue.

Other symptoms of rabies besides hypersexuality in a sudden manner are fear of drinking water. Apparently, this happens because your swallowing muscles stop working. One may even go thirsty and die of thirst before drinking water.

The sad part about rabies is that it’s often too late to save a person’s life once the actual symptoms start to show themselves, because often times it has progressed too far.  If you suspect that you have been bitten by an animal that is rabid, you must seek treatment within about 24 hours in order to have the greatest success in treating and preventing death.

Of course here in the US, rabies is virtually wiped out because our dogs are vaccinated against it, and dogs are the largest carrier and transmitter of the disease. However, in third world and developing countries, this is not the case, and people die from rabies fairly often.

The treatment consists of several rabies shots that are given over the course of several weeks.  It is of vital importance that the treatment be seeked as soon as possible, as the key is to nip it in the bud and stop it from spreading to the brain, which is where it wreaks its worst havoc.

Ashwaghanda is one of the most treasured and universally potent herbs in the world of Indian natural medicine. It has actually been used for literally thousands of years by Indian naturopaths and healers for a variety of human afflictions and enahncements – including enhancing the male libido as well as the female libido.

The herb is considered a “life extending” herb by Indian people. It is considered a virility increasing herb and is also used therapeutically for various conditions of the human body and mind. It is also supposedly a potent sexual tonic when used correctly.

The part of the plant that is used is the root. As with many other herbs, the part of the plant that is used can have different outcomes, and the root of this plant is the one that contains the beneficial phytochemicals that are supposed to produce the desired outcome the person is looking for. Some plants use the leaves or the stems, this one is the root (kind of like ginger and some other plants where the leaves are not as active chemically).

The ashwaghanda plant is not just used as a sexual potency tool by men though – it is used equally as much by women to enhance the libido as well as sexual performance and function.  It can increase the sexual desire in both sexes, and is therefore used as a sort of aphrodisiac. A couple may even use it together to improve their sex life.

The plant contains numerous natural chemicals called alkaloids, and these are thought to be the reason behind its effectiveness at treating certain conditions in the human body. The chemical constituents of the plant have been shown to have calming, anti inflammatory, anxiety reducing, and immunity enhancing properties, which makes it a very versatile product.

The plant itself is unique, much like the hyped hoodia plant, because it is so hearty. The plant grows in places where other plants die very easily, so it has demonstrated a unique ability to stay alive in dire circumstances, which may attribute to some of its “life giving” attributes in the human body.

The thought is that the plant’s amazing anxiety-reducing properties are what accounts for its effectiveness as a sexual stimulant and libido enhancing agent. We often don’t even realize how much anxiety and stress really affect our sex drive. It’s amazing what happens to the human libido when these things are taken out of the equation, or at least very reduced.

The very foundation of human nature is based on the need to give and receive love.  Love is the subject of almost all songs and the theme in most commercials.  So, it’s no surprise, that throughout history, men and women have pursued foods and aromas that have an aphrodisiac nature.

Certain common foods and drinks are associated with aphrodisiac effects.  One of the first substances that comes to mind is alcohol since it lowers inhibitions and boosts confidence.  The tricky part with the consumption of alcohol is the quantity.

If too much alcohol is consumed, the person will go from affectionate to the sedative, sleepy effect or, worse yet, to the pass out phase.  A few drinks, however, can have an aphrodisiac effect.

Asparagus has been associated with aphrodisiac effects throughout history.  In the 19th century, bridegrooms were served three courses of asparagus on their wedding day.  Bananas are another aphrodisiac food because of it’s natural shape and also it’s creamy texture.

Bananas contain an enzyme called bromelain that, according to certain studies, boosts male performance.  Caviar and oysters are two other foods associated with aphrodisiac qualities.

Caviar is noted for it’s aphrodisiac quality as it is high in zinc that can stimulate testosterone production.  This, in turn, boosts male sexual function and acts as an herbal male libido supplement, in its own right.

Oysters gained their reputation as an aphrodisiac food because oysters actually change their sex to male, then female and back again.  This unique fact has given impetus to the notion that oysters give one the opportunity to have the masculine and feminine sides of love.

Chocolate has long been believed to be an aphrodisiac.  This belief is based on the fact that chocolate is a stimulant that increases the desire for physical contact and physical activity.  Chocolate also has a natural sedative that relaxes a person and lowers inhibitions.  This combination explains the popularity of chocolate for Valentine’s Day.

In the herbal category, ginseng has long been regarded as an aphrodisiac because it increases energy and the desire for physical contact.  Other natural foodstuffs such as almond and vanilla have long been used for the pheromones to communicate the love message via the aromas they emit.

Figs have been regarded as an aphrodisiac through history and were popular for this purpose in ancient Greek times.  Radishes were considered a divine aphrodisiac in ancient Egyptian times due to their spicy taste and how it stimulated the senses.

One of the most unusual aphrodisiacs is one food from the Japanese culture.  This aphrodisiac is the puffer fish.  However, if the poisonous gland of the puffer fish is not properly removed, the tiniest bite of it is fatal.  Of course, this aphrodisiac food is not recommended since you risk death if it is not properly prepared.

Personally, I’d prefer to stay with the safer list of love foods such as the bananas, figs or asparagus, To me, the best aphrodisiac and libido booster is your partner’s behavior being conducive to love through loving acts and words.

So, there has been a long standing sort of myth that men think about sex for a very large percentage of their day. Hey guys, this is Jill here, because I want to also let you know that women think about sex at least once a day as well, or many more times than once, depending on what their hormones are doing that day.

So thinking about sex often is not just a male thing. Women think about it quite a lot too, which is why marketers use sex and sexual images so heavily in their advertising messages to customers.  Sex is a very important thing to us humans. But there are a few other vital, pleasurable things taht we all think about too, and it’s no surprise that men follow the same pattern as women do in a few respects as to what occupies and predominates their thoughts throughout the day.

When I think of things that give me great pleasure, almost without question, it is eating and sleeping. I love to do both. Oh, but I also like amusement parks and getting massages. But those aren’t things that I do every single day. Neither is sex, but it’s pretty much available to me every day since I have a husband.

Men actually think about sex just as much as they think about food and sleep.  These are three of the biggies people. These are the things that keep us going, because ultimately they are things that we take pleasure in, or that we need, but also enjoy a great deal.

As a woman, I’m very stereotypical when it comes to certain things. I only think about sex when something turns me on, or I’ve eaten some sort of aphrodisiac food or drink (wine is an aprhodisiac for me) or a female sexual enhancement pill.  Or, if I see something on the television that turns me on, or I happen to look at my husband looking hot – something like that.

Men don’t even have to be stimulated, really, to think about sex.  They tend to think about it on a continuous basis, especially when they are in their sexual prime. It is really a man’s inborn nature to think of sex often, for the furtherance of the human species.  Otherwise, with women’s up and down sex drives, the human race may go extinct!

Here is another part to our three part series on enhancing men’s libido who have a low sex drive, or have experienced a reduced sex drive thanks to outside forces, like drugs they are on, stress and more.

If your sex drive and libido are low, then testosterone boosters may help. This refers to products that are compound of herbal ingredients and without additional hormones. This way, the male body’s testosterone generation is stimulated, and the testosterone becomes free from binding interactions; thus, it can be biologically active again.

Testosterone is the most essential factor for sex drive, and fortunately there are a number of herbal agents that can be considered as a reliable testosterone booster, so that dangerous artificial supply of the hormone is not necessary.

Agents such as avena sativa, chrysin and tribulus urtica have proven to enhance the male libio dramatically.  There are many herbal male enhancement supplements which contain a combination of these ingredients that can help raise and stabilize the sex drive.

If you have the feeling that your desire for sexual pleasure has waned, then you will most likely benefit from one of these testosterone boosters and its safe combination with arginine. Of course, you can also make an experiment without arginine. In most cases, however, the main reason for a low libio is the lack of nitric oxide, which always requires a few doses of arginine products to cure the deficiency.

In the market, there, certainly, are other sex drive potions available that contain arginine, which herbal male enhancement supplements often contain. Whatever you choose, please make sure that the resource offers at least between two and three grams of arginine per daily amount, as lesser quantities are usually ineffective.

Unfortunately, pure arginine supplements that are often provided at low-cost in bodybuilding stores are bad acting. The reason for this is because arginine must be taken in combination with efficient antioxidants. Otherwise, the success rate drops to below 40 percent.

Men over the age of 60 usually suffer from vessel wall rigidity. This is normally a consequence of oxidative stress because of vascular nitric oxide deficiency. If this is the case, then arginine is the best natural antidote.

This is part two of our series on natural and herbal male aphrodisiacs, or libido enhancers.  Jill here again, and I think it’s important to talk about natural ways to enhance the male sex drive, especially since men are pereceived as having higher sex drives to begin with.

Often times, when men experience low libido, their partners almost feel offended because that’s “just not how it’s supposed to be”. Men are supposed to jump at any chance to have sex, right!? Unless they somehow find me unattractive, or are having an affair, or have just lost interest in me sexually, right?

That is how a lot of women think, and rightfully so, especially if your bed was on fire every other night and suddenly you start having sex or initiating intimacy once a month!  So, here are more ideas to get the juju going again in a man’s nether regions, so you and your partner can again set the world on fire with your intense sexual interludes!

The followin is a list of libido enhancers, but also “potency” enhancers that can help men not only increase sex drive, but also to increase their sexual pleasure and stamina.

Potency Enhancers For Men With A Normal Libido

Reduced erection strength with preservation of excitability is almost always an indication of nitric oxide deficiency. Nitric oxide plays a crucial role in regulating blood flow in various organs including the male penis.

Some pharmaceutical potency drugs like are only successful because they attack metabolism of the consumer. Unfortunately, these stimulants do not increase the body’s nitric oxide production and are solely effective due to the delayed breakdown of nitric oxide.

Thus, to increase the libio it is essential to boost the production of nitric oxide. Herbal aphrodisiacs contain the amino acid arginine, which causes the restoration and promotion of the erection strength. Two high-arginine supplements are available on the market:

My favorite potency enhancer is VigRX.  Another one, ArginMax, which are tablets that are enriched with arginine, ginseng and some vitamins, but I have limited experience with this.

Inner Power of Life Extension Foundation, which is a soluble powder with arginine, citrulline and taurine. This natural enhancer, too, contains an assortment of vitamins and minerals.

Hey guys, Jill here to talk about natural male libido enhancers, or as they are termed many times, aphrodisiacs, although that term is often reserved for women since ladies are known to be a little less amorous at times because of our cerebral approach to sex! 

Of course, I’m not trying to stereotype, but let’s be straightforward, there’s a reason why the book “Men are from Mars Women are from Venus” was such a popular best seller! 

Without further ado, let me present to you the first part of a multi part article series on male aphrodisiacs for men who may have a lower libido or lower testosterone. These remedies and natural foods, tricks and tips will help get a man in the mood again! 

Herbal Aphrodisiacs For Men

Potency agents and aphrodisiacs are elements of human culture for thousands of years and probably as typical as the human use of fire and tools. The utilization of herbal enhancers stems from the natural need for security in a sexual challenging situation in which men definitely do not wish to fail.

Aphrodisiacs give the male gender the safety to achieve what they expect of themselves. These potions, furthermore, promise to increase the libio and to always be able to offer the partner what he desire.

Sexual enhancers like herbal Viagra alternatives are likely to support and strengthen the relationship between a couple with more freedom from anxiety, as they are promoting closeness and take mens’ fears of women.

Why aphrodisiacs are still laughed at and ostracized from scientists is puzzling. Those who oppose male enhancers suggest drugs that can cause many side effects such as cholesterol-lowering agents and beta-blocker.

However, after modern science researched the effects of herbal ingredients aphrodisiacs, too, became subject of scientific examination – hey, the big pharma companies want a piece of the action!  And since most medications today are based in plant science, it’s no stretch that there may have been some huge herbal discovery that conventional medicine could transform into the new Viagra or Cialis.

The fact is that by herbal enhancers hardly anyone is injured, while conventional medications have been linked to an array of side effects.  Not that herbs do not have interactions and side effects of their own, it’s just that they are a little less likely to have these ill effects because they are the base ingredient themselves – unadulterated.

It’s a well known fact that the holidays are full of excitement and joy. However, what they are also full of for a lot of people is stress and anxiety and lack of libido.

Everyone feels the need to be perfect, to have money to buy the perfect gifts for everyone.

To be the perfect entertainer, provider, and prepare all kinds of great foods (which incidentally also cost money), and entertain people.

Not only that, but the holidays are chock full of over eating and weight gain, as well as going overboard on drinking alcohol.

What do all of the attributes amount to around the holidays? Well, they all amount to a decreased libido – for both men and women, unfortunately.

That’s right, the time of year when you think people would be having sex left and right is really the time of year when people actually put the brakes on the sex life in the interest of other things, like shopping, stressing about shopping, cooking, eating and drinking.

All of this is really stressful, and so it tends to put sex and affection on the back burner for pretty much the entire month of December.  I may be just speaking for myself, but i believe a lot of couples have this problem during the holiday weeks.

Not only do all of these weigh on your libido, but also this is a time of year when couples may go through some rough patches. Shoot, all you need to do is read the gossip rags and see how many celebrity couples bit the dust around the holidays!

It’s rampant around this time. That’s because people may be realizing that they have really different interests than their partners, or they may not be meeting eachother’s expectations. Pile all the stress on top of that, and you have a recipe for the serious “let’s talk about our relationship” conversations, and some serious re-thinking of relationships.

It’s important to realize that the stresses that come with the holidays are just temporary, and we will get through them. Also don’t put too much pressure on yourself or your partner to be a certain way or to spend a certain amount on everyone or be perfect.

You’ll find that once the stress of the holidays dissipates, and some of that extra weight comes off, soon enough you’ll be waiting to jump eachother’s bones like in the old days.  It’s just temporary.

Well, I laughed when I heard that men find the scent of donuts and popcorn to be a libido booster, but now we’ve added another junk food to the list. Except at least this one has some sort of nutritional redeeming value.

Apparently pumpkin pie also helps us guys get in the mood!  So this is the season to get turned on a lot I guess guys, since pumpkin pie and pumpkin roll, and pumpkin cookies etc. seem to be everywhere during the holiday season!

It’s interesting because apparently it’s not just a psychological turn on, the scent of pumpkin pie actually increased blood flow to the penis, more specifically to the chambers in the penis that hold blood, which then creates an erection, resulting in an actual physical reaction to this simple, yet obviously delicious scent.

Who every knew that pumpkin pie was not only a delicious seasonal treat, but also an aphrodisiac?!

The funny thing is that I, as a guy, have never personally noticed being turned on by the smell of pumpkin pie, but maybe now I need to get more in tune with my senses.

The thought is that maybe the smell of pumpkin pie relaxes the psyche, because of it’s connotations for most people, women and men both, as a festive, relaxed time of year – a sense of home, perhaps? This lack of anxiety may actually help fuel lidibinous feelings that can lead to increased sex drive in men since it takes away thoughts that are rife with anxiety.

I know that we have some pumpkin scented candles and room spray at home, maybe we should start burning them and spraying them when we find it hard to get in the mood!

Apparently, there is a medical term for low libido in men and women that I wasn’t aware of.  It’s called HypoActive Sexual Desire Disorder, or HSDD, since you know the medical industry (and many large corporations in their internal workings, as I can tell you from my day job) is fond of shortening these terms.

This is a disorder that can affect both men and women in varying degrees of seriousness.  It affects many women, but for different reasons since us women are much more likely to associate our sexual desire with our emotions, and specifically with our emotions toward that particular person we are lacking the desire to have relations with.  This is exactly why men complain about women withholding sex when they are mad at them, or are upset about something.

In women, pre-menopause seems to be a time when they experience a lot of HSDD, for men, it seems to be about the same age. Our hormones are raging when we are younger, specifically in our late teens and early twenties, and when those hormones start to decline and well, serious life starts to take over (it’s so fun being an adult sometimes, isn’t it?), that seems to be when the HSDD really kicks in for most people.

Combine that with other traits we tend to have with age like increased weight and body fat, being on drugs like blood pressure medications, and just the general feeling of apathy toward sex when we’ve been with the same people for a long time, have gotten comfortable, etc. etc. tends to make the likelihood of sexual desire dysfunction higher as we age.

There was even a new drug mulled over at the FDA recently called flibanserin that was supposed to be like a “female viagra” – a female sexual enhancement drug – which has gotten less than stellar results in actually producing more libido in women.

If you ask me, women’s reproductive organs are more complex than men’s, and it will be hard to come up with a drug to actually address all the mental and physical issues that go with low libido in women, so I’ll be shocked if they come up with something that actually works.