INGREDIENTS

What's the secret behind Machismo's highly effective yet affordable blend? Well, unlike other sex enhancers which use 7 to 15 ingredients (more is NOT necessarily better BUT it's a trick used by many herbal manufacturers to justify their higher pricing), Machismo has only 3 active ingredients:

Serenoa Repens Extract (180 mg)

Description of Serenoa Repens

It is a clump forming rhizomatous plant with fan-shaped leaves and fragrant creamy flowers, followed by ovoid blue-black fruits.

Parts used

The fruits are used.

Properties of Serenoa Repens

It is a sedative, warming and tonic herb with a soapy taste and pungent aroma, which affects the endocrine system, while acting as a urinary antiseptic, a diuretic and expectorant. It is also used as an aphrodisiac.

It contains high amounts of short-chained fatty acids (including lauric acid) and their glycerides, as well as various phytosterols, including sitosterol (free and esterified form), campesterol and cycloartenol.

Therapeutic uses

Internal use

It is used to improve the sex drive and libido, as well as for prostate problems.

When used to reduce the symptoms of prostate problems it helps to reduce the symptoms such as frequent urination (pollakiuria), urination at night (nycturia) and also to combat a weak urinary stream and a delayed onset of urination.

Saw palmetto is further used for bronchial complaints as well as treatment for general wasting diseases.

Women often use it to encourage breast enlargement.

Ginseng Extract (180 mg)

Description of the herb

It is a perennial geophyte with a short rhizome attached to a fleshy root and has a single stem that emerge every year, with compound leaves and a single cluster of small white flowers that develop into bright red fruit.

Parts used

The fresh or dried root is used.

Properties

It is a sweet tonic herb that both stimulates and relaxes the nervous system and encourage the secretion of hormones, improves stamina, lowers blood sugar as well as cholesterol levels and increases resistance to disease.

It contains at least 18 triterpenoid saponins, called ginsenosides or panaxosides and they are glycosides of oleanolic acid, 20-S-protopanaxdiol, ginseng polysaccharides (panaxans), pectin, free sugar, vitamins B1, B2, B12, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, choline, fats, minerals and polyacetylenes.

Therapeutic uses

Internal use

It is used internally for debility associated with old age and illness.

Studies have shown that it improves mood, physical and intellectual performance and other metabolic parameters.

Furthermore, ginseng is used for lack of appetite, stress, insomnia, chronic illness.

It is believed to be a powerful adaptogenic aphrodisiac that will affect any system in the body that is out of balance. In Chinese medicine it is used to quickly restore homeostasis (balance) reducing the effect of aging and enhance physical, sexual and mental performance whilst increasing energy and resistance to the harmful effect of stress - and for these reasons it is often used to help men with impotence and sexual problems, and is a good general tonic.

Ginseng is reported to possess hormone-like and cholesterol-lowering effects, promote vasodilatation, and also act as an anxiolytic as well as antidepressant.

Some studies have ginseng extracts and ginsenosides to be effective in stimulating learning, memory, and physical capabilities as well as supporting radioprotection, providing resistance to infection and having excellent antioxidant and anti-fatigue effects.

It is also used to enhance energy metabolism and reducing cholesterol and triglycerides while elevating HDL levels.

External use

Ginseng is used in cosmetics for its rejuvenating properties.

The administration of Ginseng has been clearly associated with obvious improvements in the general metabolism. The herb has a beneficial effect on circulation and the plant regulates the tone of the smooth muscles of the blood vessels.

There are a very large number of studies which show the action of Ginseng on specific body functions; its stimulating effect on the immune system has been described and also the way it stimulates protein synthesis and inhibits proteic enzymatic degradation in the fibroblasts.

The plant is responsible for increasing phospholipid synthesis in the blood, inhibiting ATPase in the brain and many other effects.

It has also been shown that Ginseng has a strong anti-radical effect, which is more considerable in derivatives of protapanaxatriol than in other fractions of the plant.

This vast amount of properties give Ginseng an almost unlimited use in cosmetics. Its activity makes it useful in nourishing creams, in treating wrinkled and aged skin and in all cosmetic products used to retard the onset of age.

In body milks and bath products, Ginseng acts by optimizing the cutaneous metabolism of the whole body and in capillary products, Ginseng may be used in treatment products for weak hair and lotions for preventing hair loss as it stimulates growth and gives strength.

Cucurbita Pepo Extract (45 mg)

Description of Cucurbita Pepo

Cucurbita Pepo is an herbaceous, annual vine native to America, now cultivated worldwide in warm temperate regions. It has been cultivated in Mexico and North America since at least 14 000 BC.

Parts used

The ripe dried seeds are used.

Properties

It is a sweet herb, which soothes irritated tissues and has diuretic properties.

It contains fatty acids with linoleic acid being the main component, but also contains various plant sterols and sterol glycosides, a cyclic non-protein amino acid, cucurbitine, as well as tocopherols.

Therapeutic Uses

Internal use

Cucurbita Pepo is traditionally used to treat a wide variety of illnesses, and through scientific investigation most of the properties have been validated.

It is used as an anthelmintic (to expels intestinal worms), taeniacide (killing tapeworms), as a diuretic, to treat bed-wetting in children and facilitate the passage of urine, while soothing an irritated bladder.

To expel intestinal worms a preparation is made as follows: grind 200-400 g of dried unpeeled seeds into a pulp, mix with milk and honey until a porridge-like consistency and take on an empty stomach in the morning, followed by castor oil 2-3 hours later. Repeat the next morning.

It is also used to reduce the symptoms of an enlarged prostate, but DOES NOT help to reduce an enlarged prostate.

Cucurbita Pepo oil can be taken internally (10 drops three times a day) for urinary track infections, as well as boosting the health of the lungs and mucus membranes. Take for four weeks.

External use

Externally the dried seeds can be made into a poultice to treat burns.