Plants with aphrodisiac characteristics are used to increase sexual desire, performance and pleasure. The so-called aphrodisiacs are named after the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite and have been used for thousands of years in Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Roman, and Greek cultures. Recently the interest in plant-based aphrodisiacs has undergone a Renaissance due to their lack of side effects, ready availability and relatively low costs. While some studies have demonstrated the positive effect of aphrodisiac plants on sexual enhancement, the underlying mechanisms in our body are still to be discovered.
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Black Mondo Grass
Ophiopogon planiscapus
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Knowledge Page Alix Briere
Hortus Dijkspark Knowledge
What is the Hortus Dijkspark project?
This project is used to keep tract of the extensive list of plants we have growing here at Mediamatic. We tract their growing location (see 'Hortus Map'), some general plant information such as their...
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Laura van Zuylen
Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Hortus Dijkspark
1May 20181May 2028Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Klik hier om meer te weten te...
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Goji berry
Lycium barbarum
Meet the antioxidant fruit
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Ginseng
Ginseng
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Lad's love
Artemisia abrotanum
Aphrodisiac properties ‘Sotherne wood being laid under ye beeds [sic] head, doth provoke venery.’ In early modern England, medical writers attempted to assist couples who struggled to conceive...
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True passionflower
Passiflora incarnata
Aphrodisiac properties This plant is named after its power to enhance arousal! The ‘true passion’ comes from the chemical chrysin found in the plant, which has demonstrated a potential to increase...
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Stinging nettle
Urtica dioica
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Wood forget-me-not
Myosotis sylvatica
Aphrodisiac properties This flower is an outlier amongst the aphrodisiacs. Being typically less sexy, its inseparability from the myth of love that follows the plant gains the Forget-Me-Not...
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Belladonna
Atropa belladonna
Aphrodisiac properties The belladonna is known in its two extremes: as healer or poison. It goes by two common names, belladonna (beautiful woman) and deadly nightshade. These two extremes become...
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Bamboo
Bambusa arundinaceae
Aphrodisiac properties The bamboo has played an important role in East Asia, as part of spiritual life, as a building material, and indeed, as an aphrodisiac! ( worldbamboo.net ) It is the bamb(oo la...
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Aphrodisiacs
Plants with aphrodisiac characteristics are used to increase sexual desire, performance and pleasure. The so-called aphrodisiacs are named after the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite and have been used...
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Rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis
Aphrodisiac properties "There’s rosemary: that’s for remembrance, pray you love, remember." Hamlet, IV.II.CLXX If you are looking to trap a lover, it is perhaps an idea to start conditioning them to...
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Common Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
Aphrodisiac properties Reputed as Cleopatra’s weapon of seduction, lavender has its place in culture as an aphrodisiac. An important ingredient at the beginning of the French perfume industry, the...
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Matrixx Botanica
Melanie Bonajo
Melanie Bonajo exams the paradoxes inherent in our future-based ideas of comfort. Through her photographs, performances, videos and installations Bonajo examines subjects related to progress that...