Herbal Viagra may be potent alternative |
The Cincinnati Enquirer The Boston Globe A concoction touted as an "herbal Viagra" without the side effects has shown it can prevent impotence in rats, giving at least a measure of scientific support to the briskly selling product known as "BetterMAN". The supplement, developed by a biologist born in China and familiar with traditional remedies, is aimed at two of middle-aged men’s biggest complaints – erectile difficulties and frequent nighttime trips to the bathroom. Though mainstream researchers are skeptical, BetterMAN’s developer, Peipei Wu Wishnow, claims it can restore and maintain male potency, while also reducing the need to urinate at night that occurs in many older men with enlarged prostate glands. Unlike Viagra, the blockbuster impotence drug men take an hour or two before sex, BetterMAN is taken daily with rest periods of a few days. By some mechanism that isn’t understood, the herbs affect the man’s physiology to restore sexual potency. Although Dr. Wishnow reports good results in a small sample of men, the product has not undergone any stringent or large-scale clinical testing, and the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t allow such food supplements to be advertised with medical claims. Dr. Tom Lue, a urologist at the University of California in San Francisco and lead author of the report in Wednesday’s Journal of Urology, said he was approached by Dr. Wishnow’s company, Interceuticals, and agreed to test the product because of an interest in herbal remedies fostered by his father, a Chinese herbalist. After months of feeding the animals a high-cholesterol diet, Dr. Lue used an electrical current to stimulate erections in the animals. The rats that didn’t get BetterMAN had only half to normal erections as those that got the herb treatment. |
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