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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Ptychopetalum olacoides

Common Name
Muira Puama, Potency Wood, Potenzholz

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Activity Country/Region Reference
Aphrodisiac Brazil Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Aphrodisiac Surinam Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Medicine Guiana Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Nervine English Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Tonic German Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.