What is the difference between Tongkat Ali and butea superba?
Tongkat ali and Butea superba are both popular herbal supplements used to support sexual health and vitality. Tongkat ali is primarily known for modulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis and reducing sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which can help increase free testosterone levels.
Thus, Tongkat Ali is often utilized in bodybuilding and for general hormonal support. However, while both herbs share some benefits, Butea superba is more specifically targeted toward penile and clitoral engorgement.
Butea superba is notable because it is one of the most potent natural phosphodiesterase (PDE5) inhibitors. For context, sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil—the active ingredients in prescription drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction—are all synthetic phosphodiesterase inhibitors.
The pro-erectile effects of Butea superba are more subtle than synthetic drugs, but because they may also be accompanied by elevated testosterone levels, penile and clitoral erections with Butea superba are often accompanied by heightened sexual desire.
This combination of effects is particularly relevant for female users of Butea superba. It may help women cross the fine line between remaining unsatisfied and achieving orgasm.
Many women have problems achieving orgasm because their clitoral engorgement is insufficient or subsides too quickly.
The course of events typically goes like this: women become aroused during foreplay, and the clitoral body becomes engorged and protrudes from the clitoral hood. In this physiological state, they are primed for orgasm. But if clitoral stimulation does not produce an orgasm in a continuous manner, the clitoral erection can subside due to overstimulation, and the clitoral glans may retreat into the hood. When this happens, many women find it difficult to achieve orgasm.
And this is where Butea superba can potentially help. Because it inhibits phosphodiesterase, the clitoral engorgement does not subside as easily, and the clitoral glans remains exposed.
Consequently, a woman may experience a more satisfying orgasm, sometimes even from penetration alone rather than requiring direct oral stimulation.
For men, the penile effect of Butea superba is slightly different. In sufficiently high dosages, Butea superba helps maintain erections that would otherwise subside.
But the phosphodiesterase inhibition of Butea superba also articulates itself as a rather specific orgasmic sensation during ejaculation.
Physiologically, erections are maintained by the relaxation of cavernosal smooth muscle and increased blood flow, mediated by cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). PDE5 inhibitors like Butea superba prevent the breakdown of cGMP, thereby delaying detumescence (the loss of erection) and prolonging the engorgement of the corpus cavernosum.
As an effect of this prolonged cavernosal engorgement, there is often a stronger sensation during ejaculation, when semen is expelled. The Butea superba-aided sensation of the semen load passing through the urethra is highly pleasurable for many users, and expands the area of immediate orgasmic sensation from the perineum right to the glans.
Actually, many men have never experienced this sensation before going on a Butea superba regimen.