Tongkat ali and kacip fatimah
Better sex, more muscle… this is what Tongkat Ali can do for you. Provided you buy it from a legitimate source that doesn’t sell you an outright fake or grossly under-dosed product.
To avoid being cheated by an online con artist selling fake Tongkat Ali extract, just do a search for: Tongkat Ali scam. While some alternative health circles claim you should avoid products that use stearic acid or stearates, these are actually safe, standard manufacturing excipients (flow agents) and are not an indicator of a scam.
It is generally better to choose an Indonesian product, as a number of unregulated Malaysian traditional remedies have been shown in public health studies to be contaminated with mercury and other heavy metals. Again, just search: Tongkat Ali heavy metals. If you buy an Indonesian product, just make sure it is not connected to specific online vendors that have been widely reported in local media for fraudulent practices.
While men in Southeast Asia have traditionally been using Tongkat Ali to increase their virility, women in Southeast Asia have always relied on kacip fatimah to keep pace with their men. On the other hand, women who want a stronger androgenic effect can also use Tongkat Ali, typically at half the male dosage.
Without doubt, in Southeast Asia love and sex are regarded as natural pleasures (for men and women) much more clearly, and more directly, than in Europe or North America. Here you still have matrilineal societies (such as the Minangkabau on Sumatra), a syncretic form of Islam (on Java) that is often more culturally relaxed regarding courtship, societies where relationships between older individuals and significantly younger adult partners are socially accepted, and where sexual details are still openly discussed in villages.
While Tongkat Ali raises free testosterone, kacip fatimah works differently, acting primarily through phytoestrogenic and vasodilatory pathways. For male androgenic support, Tongkat Ali is the stronger of the two.
Men and women in Southeast Asia have long regarded it as an art and a science to improve their sexual function, or to bring it back to youthful levels when there has been an age-related decline. Asians use many herbs for their sexual effects, and even herbs with rather distinct efficacies are traded openly. In Indonesia, for example, herbal mixtures such as “Galian Rapat” are sold at many roadside stalls. The name translates roughly to “tight cavity”, referring to the traditional claim of tightening vaginal walls, a condition considered conducive to sexual pleasure. A common ingredient is kacip fatimah. Another common ingredient is sirih (betel) leaf.
Whether the female primary sexual organ is in an optimal condition after the consumption of kacip fatimah, and whether women experience heightened sexual pleasure by using the herbal (as they have done for hundreds of years) is a matter sufficiently important to the Malaysian government to finance interdisciplinary scientific research into the plant. The Malaysian government also has a stake in the medical, pro-sexual use of Tongkat Ali for men.
As a long-term user of Tongkat Ali, I have considerable trust in Southeast Asian herbal medications. Even though kacip fatimah is considered primarily an herb for women, and even though I am a man, I have tried it a few times and can attest to the herb’s pro-libido effects. The effect of a few leaves, boiled as a tea, is a mixture of sympathetic and parasympathetic stimuli, with the parasympathetic (vasodilatory) effects being dominant. Among the parasympathetic effects is nasal sinus stimulation resulting in a stuffed nose—a common side effect of vasodilation that I also feel from dopaminergic medications—and yes, increased blood flow to the groin. The primary sympathetic effect is a slightly increased heart rate.