Some women who suffer from diminished sexual libido may find some help in Chinese medicine treatments:
To get some answers I spoke with Judy Mazurin, Chinese Doctor, to weigh in on alternative methods. She sites two Chinese herbs specific for improving libido: damiana for women and horny goat weed (yes, you read that right) for men.
Do these or any other herbal treatments work? Mazurin cautions, “Herbs can have an effect, but it’s not the same for everyone.”
As for alternative treatments like acupuncture, chiropractic or massage, you won’t find a sex cure-all either. Mazurin points out that it never hurts to take care of your body and recommends that a woman tests a few different methods to find the one that works best for her.
Then again, where many women feel it is their libido that is suffering—and in some cases, like if she is on certain medications, she may be justified—it’s probably something else about her body or circumstance that is zapping her sexual desire.
Mazurin says it’s common for a patient to come in asking for a boost in libido when there’s something else about her body that is out of whack, like high blood pressure. She explains, “I need to treat the other ailments before I can work on libido.”
And that, in my opinion, is the allusive “X” factor on why there will never be a magic sex pill for women. A woman’s drive to have sex is complex. People are focused on their genitals, when instead they should be focused on their all-encompassing mind, body and life circumstance.
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