Damiana – Turnera

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried leaves, tops of the twigs and blos- soms of the plant, Turnera diffusa Willd. and hybrids, a native of Mexico, California, Brazil and Bolivia. N.O. Turneraceae.

The main indications are:

Flaccidity of the male and female genitalia. Impotence, sterility. Spermatorrhoea. Hypertrophy of the prostate. Neurasthenia. Migraine.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Turnera diffusa, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for damiana: sexual insufficiency; paramenia.