According to folklore, Damiana leaves must be harvested at a flowering stage of the plant's development in order to reap any medicinal properties. Such harvesting requires a level of expertise that few damiana leaf bulk wholesalers possess. However, we have discovered a source in the West Indies who provides small quantities of flower-stage harvested damiana. This supply is seasonal which is why you will notice we only carry damiana for a few months out of the year.

Damiana has been held in great esteem as an aphrodisiac since ancient times. It's popularity has remained strong over the course of the centuries, particularly in Mexico. It was first used ritually by the Aztecs as a sexual stimulant for men and women. Medicinal uses include treating sterility, impotence, and sexual imbalances.

James Duke, Ph.D. in his Handbook on Medicinal Herbs (1985), claimed flower-stage harvested damiana makes "every nerve tingle with sexual sensation, whetting the appetite of lustful desire". Dutch herbalist E.F. Steinmetz introduced Europe to damiana in 1960, reporting that it possessed sexual enhancing properties that can only be experienced rather than described.