Talk:Epimedium

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There are a lot of claims made in this article about epimedium does, but no references for which the facts can be verified. There are lot of salespeople out there trying to claim that their herbs do wonderful things, but this article should so some proof rather than merely regurgitate claims made by the snake-oil companies.

The Chinese characters for this plant are 淫羊藿, literally lewd/licentious/horny-goat/sheep-"huo"-a plant name. Dylanwhs 12:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The two pieces that would connect the power/efficicay of Epimedium to the more popular and heavily documented forms of erectile function compounds such as Viagra are the extract concetration and metabolism components - specifically how much icariin is in an particular extract, and how much must be ingested to be metabolized into the sufficient concentrations in the corpus callusom of the penis relative to Viagra. We know the IS50 and ES50 for in vitro incubation, but not the oral adminstration/metabolism to achieve those concentations. Teloscientist 20:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)