A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.375

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The subjects dealt with are: persons suitable to be treated with aphrodisiacs (26.3–5); various means of stimulating sexual desire (26.6–9cd);²³⁸ types of impaired potency (klaibya): caused by psychological factors (mānasa), decrease of the saumya element(s) (saumyadhātukṣaya), decrease of semen (śukrakṣaya) due to sexual excesses, a disease of the penis or injury to a marman, and congenital (sahaja) factors (26.9ef-14);²³⁹ the congenital type and that caused by injury to a marman are incurable; the other types can be cured by counteracting the causes (26.15);²⁴⁰ aphrodisiac recipes (26.16–39).²⁴¹