What should men eat when they have difficulty achieving an erection?
Dec 24, 2024
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Cao Zhiqiang
Introduction
Generally speaking, there is no such saying as "what to eat when a man cannot get an erection." Men who experience difficulty in achieving an erection can consume foods such as oysters, Chinese chives, lamb, walnuts, and Chinese yam. They may also take medications such as sildenafil citrate tablets, Yougui Pills, Wuzi Yanzong Pills, Compound Xuanju Capsules, and Jinsuo Guying Pills according to a doctor's instructions. Specific details are as follows:
Generally speaking, there is no such thing as "what food is good for male impotence." Men experiencing erectile difficulties may consume foods such as oysters, chives, lamb, walnuts, and yam, or take medications such as Sildenafil Citrate Tablets, Yougui Pills, Wuzi Yanzong Pills, Compound Xuanju Capsules, and Jinsuo Guying Pills under a doctor's guidance. Details are as follows:
I. Foods
1. Oysters: Oysters are rich in zinc, which participates in the generation, maturation, and capacitation of sperm and helps maintain the normal function of the reproductive glands and sexual organs. Adequate intake of oysters can supplement zinc, improve sexual function, and enhance penile erection hardness.
2. Chives: Chives contain abundant nutrients such as vitamin C, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. The sulfides in chives have kidney-nourishing and yang-enhancing effects, help promote blood circulation in the urinary system, and improve blood supply to the male reproductive system.
3. Lamb: Lamb is a warming food that warms the middle jiao, strengthens the spleen, nourishes the kidneys, and enhances yang. Lamb contains abundant proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Its protein is high-quality protein that provides energy and nutrition for the body, helping enhance male physical strength.
4. Walnuts: Walnuts contain abundant unsaturated fatty acids, proteins, vitamin E, and minerals. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects reproductive cells from free radical damage. Additionally, walnuts have kidney-nourishing and essence-stabilizing effects, offering auxiliary regulation for sexual dysfunction caused by kidney deficiency, which is beneficial for maintaining penile erection.
5. Yam: Yam invigorates the spleen, nourishes the lungs, fortifies the kidneys, and enriches essence. It contains substances such as amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which benefit the digestive and absorptive functions of the spleen and stomach, enhancing physical constitution. The mucilaginous protein in yam provides excellent nourishment for the kidneys, improves kidney function, and enhances male reproductive capacity.
II. Medications
1. Sildenafil Citrate Tablets: This medication is a type of phosphodiesterase inhibitor. Its primary function is to inhibit phosphodiesterase, thereby enhancing nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in the corpus cavernosum, increasing blood flow into the corpus cavernosum, and promoting and maintaining penile erection.
2. Yougui Pills: This medication consists of prepared rehmannia, cinnamon, yam, cornus (wine-baked), etc. It warms kidney yang, nourishes essence, and marrow. It is mainly used for symptoms caused by kidney yang deficiency and declining gate fire, such as soreness and coldness in the waist and knees, low spirits, cold intolerance, impotence, and premature ejaculation.
3. Wuzi Yanzong Pills: This medication consists of wolfberry, cuscus (stir-fried), schisandra (steamed), and plantain seed (salt stir-fried). It nourishes the kidneys and enriches essence. It is used for impotence, infertility, and lower back pain caused by kidney deficiency and depletion of essence. It also has some regulatory effect on insufficient hardness and mid-course flaccidity.
4. Compound Xuanju Capsules: This medication consists of black ants, epimedium, wolfberry, and cnidium. It warms the kidneys, enhances yang, enriches essence, and removes wind-damp. It is used for kidney yang deficiency syndrome, characterized by fatigue, low spirits, soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, coldness in the lower abdomen and genitalia, cold and slippery semen, low libido, and functional impotence.
5. Jinsuo Guying Pills: This medication consists of astragalus seed (stir-fried), water chestnut seed (steamed), lotus stamen, dragon bone (calcined), etc. It strengthens the kidneys and consolidates essence. It is mainly used for symptoms such as seminal emission and spermatorrhea caused by unstable kidney deficiency, fatigue, limb weakness, lumbago, and tinnitus, and it also helps improve erectile function.
Maintaining good daily habits, reducing stress and anxiety, can help improve sexual function.
