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Title: Valentine's Day - Toxicity of Aphrodesiac's

Category: Toxicology

Posted: 2/14/2008 by Fermin Barrueto (Updated: 3/3/2026)

Here are a couple of herbals touted as aphrodesiac's and the toxcity associated with them (the price of love):

Chan Su or "Love Stone" - A chinese herbal that is suppose to be topically applied, unfortunately all of the instructions are in chinese and those who ingest it will die a digoxin-like death. It has a compound that is essentially a potent digoxin-like substance.

Yohimbine - herbals that contain this can cause priapism -  shocker