Some information about herbs and medicines with genito-urinary application

About Cernitin (cernilton)

Cernitin, generic name cernilton, is an extract made of pollen. Producents of cernitin typically gather pollen from wild plants for production of cernitin. Chemically cernitin is a complex blending of fat-soluble and water-soluble substances of types like: vitamins, amino acids, nucleic acids, minerals, long chained alcohols, unsaturated fatty acids, precursors for producteion of the tissue hormons prostaglandins, enzymes and plant hormones

It is used to treat benign hyperthrophy of the prostate and symptoms caused by this. When using cernitine urine flow often improves after a short time. Redidual urine in the bladder also decreases after a short time. The extract also helps to decrease pain in the prostate (prostatodynia). After some longer time the prostate may also get smaller. These effects have been proven by clinical research projects using a dosage of a dosage of 126 mg (2 tablets, 63 mg each.)

The effects of cernitine seems to occur because the extract counteracts inflammation and because it blocks some of the physiological effects of male sexual hormon on the prostate.

There are evidence suggesting that cernitin protects the liver from damage by toxins and may protect against the growth of certain types of prostate cancer, but these areas are less well researched.



Anout Vaginism, How to Cure Vaginism

By vaginism the muscles in the pelvic floor, those around the vagina, anus and urethra, contract automatically when they instead should relaxe. This can be a continous contraction that the woman is not able to cease when required, for example during inercource, bowel movements or urination.

In other instance the pelvic floor is relaxed in the first place, but automatically contract upon stimuli, for example when the vagina is going to be penetrated.

The unvanted contraction can be total so that it is totally impossible to penetrate the vagina, which makes vaginal intercource impossible, or it can be partial so that intercource is difficult or unpleasant for the woman and the man.

Many women suffer from vaginismus, but they reach orgasm through clitoral stimulation or petting.

When penetration has not been possible for a long time and the couple regard penetration to be an important factor for an successful fullfilment of sex, the situation can be seriously disturbing for both partners emotionally.

The male partner can also be misled into believing that he is not attractive, dispite the woman is constantly ensuring him that he is, which also can lead to psychological trauma for the male partner.

Whan having tried to get into the woman for a while, the man's penis can get flaccid again due to lack of stimulus, and this flaccidness also contributes to the problem.

The causes of vaginismus

Something resambling vaginismus can be caused by a too narrow vagina, either congenital or caused by inflammations, infections or injuries. The narrowness makes it difficult to penetrate and the pain associated with penetraion of a narrow vagina can make the woman contract the muscles aroun the vagina more or less automatically. Also disease processes in the vagina can cause pain and muscular contraction as a defence mechanism.

The causes of vaginism can be neurological. The nerve endings in the pelvic area and the nervous apparatus in the spinal cord will react stronger than normal upon physical stimuli and send back reflex signals to the muscles in the pelvic floor to contract.

In other cases the cause is psychological. Fear of being penetrated or shame of sexual actions can make her send signals to the pelvic floor to contract and hinder the penetration. The contraction can also occur because of an automatic psychological reflexe mechanism, a so called conditioned reflexe, without any actual component of fear or shame.

These psychological processes can be more or less conscious. They originate from a learning or socialization process.

in some cultures, subcultures or families the pelvic organs, sexuality, sexual actions and even all functions related to the pelvic area are regarded as something dirty, sinful and shameful. Both young people and adults are either explicitly or indirectly by watching the behavior of others, thought that one must avoid sexual actions, suppress sexual reactions and hide body areas of sexual significance. And if sexual actions are about to take place, they are thought that they must physically oppose these actions, without discriminating between pleasant or painfull actions and legal or illegal actions. Vaginism will then result as a logical consequence.

Some women have experienced painful physical actions in their vagina, urethra or anus in a young age. These actions could have been sexual abuse, medical procedures done in a clumpsy way, or an intercource done in a too violent way by the partner. They then automatically associate penetration with pain and learn to hinder it automatically by contracting the muscles.

Even though sexual abuse can cause reaction of the type, vaginism or related reactions can also be caused by a hysterical focus from the society on sexual abuse or rape as a problem, where the chance of being abused is greately exagerated, and the definition of abuse is greatly extended. In such societies, people tend to equal all sexual actions with abuse and make them defend themselves against any sexual action by automatic muscular reactions.

Treatment of vaginismus

Before treating vaginismus, one must investigate if there are disease processes, or anatomical narrowness in the vagina or genitals that can trigger pain and muscular response. These processes should of cource be treated. Anatomical narrowness can often be treated with gradual stretching.

Pharmacological or natural medicines to help a woman relaxe may help for vaginism. Medicines to be placed in the vagina or vaginal opening to sooth unpleasant feelings or exagerated stimulations can help.

A training process can be performed over several weeks where one gradually and cautiously introduces steadily longer and thicker objects into the vagina, and finally the man uses his penis. One can begin by using a very thin dildo or a finger, then thicker dildoes and lastly the penis. If the vagina is too narrow the objects used can also serve as a gradual stretching of the vagina.

Psychotherapy or analysis of the cultural surroundings of the woman, with the aim of revealing the deeper psychological causes of the condition to the woman, can give her better controle of her reactions and can ease the process of gradual training towards an adequate pelvic muscular working.

Some more about the techiques used by gradual training to overcome vaginismus

The aim is getting the woman learn to relax better during sex. And she must gradually be used to the penetration until she can take the whole penis in its full length.

Each training session must begin with the women relaxing as well as possible but she should also be stimulated so that she is sexually axcited, but with the relaxed state remaining. Then a gentle penetration is tried. The first times one tries a very shallow pwnetration, but for each time it is made deeper.

Dildos can be used at the beginning of this process of habituation, first small dildos and eventually dildos of a size like a penis. At the beginning the woman herself can use the dildos until she is used to have objects in her vagina. Then the man can perform the penetrations with the dildo. Eventually he tries penetration with his penis.

A trick that often is useful, is to press the dildo or the epenis very gently but steadily against the vaginal opening. The the vagina may suddenly relaxe and the dildo or penis glides in. When this occurs, it is necessary not to akt too rapidly and only penentrate a small distance the first times. If not the cramping can suddenly begin again when she gets aware of being totally filled with the penis or the dildo.

Using some gliding or lubrication cream or oil on the penis or on the dildo and in the vaginal opening will also ease the penetration process.

A gradual approach during sex where both the man and women gradually tease up their feelings before before penetration is tried, will often help against the problem, and oftes solve it without using special desensibilitaion techiques. Such a gradual approch to sex is described in the following article.



About Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and related drugs

Viagra is one of the drugs you can buy from my online pharmacy. Here you can read some more about this product. The other drugs on the market with a similar effect and chemical composition are Cialis ( tadalafil ) and Levitra (vardarafil)

The main difference betwwen the way these drugs work are these:

- Levitra has the shortest duration time.

- Viagra has a longer duration of action. It is also used as a drug against pulmonary hypertension.

- Cialis has a longer effect than Viagra (36 hours). Also this drug is under trials to be used against pulmonary hypertension.

The prescription drug Viagra is targeted to the treatment of erectile dysfunctions. Since its introduction in 1998 about 16 million men have used Viagra to treat erection difficulties. That means that about 9 tablets are applied every second all over the world. Viagra is the most scientifically studied drug for erection malfunctions in the world , and it is by now the erection improver drug with the greatest experience base. The amount of secure knowledge about the bemfits and possible, but rare side-effects of this drug is the reason why more that 600,000 doctors wolrdwide prefere to ordinate this drug by erection dysfunctions.

Viagra has also been studied and to some degree also been prescribed for organic based sexual dysfunctions of women, but here experience tell that the drug does not have any significant effect.

What is erectile dysfunction

By normal erection the following physiological mechanisms are working:

The arteries in the penis relax and widen (this allows more blood to flow into the penis).

These arteries then expand and harden.

The veins that normally carry blood away from the penis get compressed (this restricts the blood flow out of the penis).

More blood begins flowing in and less flows out, making the penis larger; this causes an erection.

For most men, the nerves or blood vessels that play a part in this process work properly. For other men, this may not be true. In these cases, the man may not be able to get an erection.

How does Viagra treat erectile dysfunction?

Viagra is a relatively new medication that is taken by mouth to restore erectile function in men with erectile dysfunction. It selectively works on the penis.

Viagra does not produce erections by its own. It increases the abiliaty to have erections. That means that you also most be sexually exited by some normal erotic stimulus to get erections. Viagra depends on stimulation to be effective; orgasms are not affected. It is not a hormone or an aphrodisiac.

Viagra makes the smooth muscle in the arteries leading blood to the penis to relaxe. By some men the regulatory mechanism of this function does not work, or the arteries are indured so that they do not relaxe enough upon the normal regulatory impulses. Viagra maximizes this relaxation, and thus compensate for the existing relaxation dysfunction and makes the erections more effective.

Sildenafil is a potent and selective inhibitor of the enzyme cGMP specific phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) which is responsible for degradation of cGMP in the corpus cavernosum.

Erection occur upon impulses from the parasympathetic nervous system causing the release of nitric oxide (NO) in the corpus cavernosum of the penis. NO binds to the receptors that after the binding activate the enzyme guanylate cyclase which produce cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). cGMP makes the smooth muscles in the blood vessels in the erectile bodies of the penis relaxe. When these muscles relaxe, the penis gets filled with blood. However, the enzyme phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) takes away cGMP. Viagra hinders this enzyme from working and thus holds the concentration of cGMP high.

How to use Viagra

One should take Viagra one hour prior to intercourse. The peak blood level occurs in less than 60 minutes and the beneficial effects last up 8 hours. But viagra is most effective is within the first 4 hours. You will not have an erection if you are not stimulated. It is recomanded to use Viagra once a day.

How safe and efficient is Viagra?

Viagra has been studied extensively to reveal possible psychological effects. By these studies no impact upon the libido, either positive or negative have been found. Neither have the studies revealed any increment of agressive drive, any desire to act out agressively or any manifested agressive behaviour by men taking Viagra.

Studies on Viagra have not revealed any instances of priapism, that is uncontrolled erections that will not go down, because blood have been stuffed in the penis. This is because Viagra acts bout the mechanism leading blood to the penis, and not the blood draining mechanism of the penis. Methods like penile injections, intraurethral therapy or even worse - injecting narchotics like amphetamine into the urethra carry some risk of priapism.

Viagra is effective for most men. Studies show that it gives result for up to 4 out of 5 men (versus 1 out of 4 on sugar pill). Viagra improves erections for men having erection problems of a variety of causes, and regardless of how long the problems have persisted.

The most common side effects of Viagra are headache, facial flushing, and upset stomach. Less commonly occuring side effects are bluish vision, blurred vision, or light sensitivity.