I'm starting a regiment of this daily intake, anyone else try it?

I have tried a small batch of it once. The taste reminded me of licorice, but i didn't notice significant effects.

Taken daily it's relaxing. And taking it before sleep enhances the sleep.

It's also an aphrodiziac according to my wife, but only after taking it for about a week, with just one daily dose you notice nothing.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

So it's more of a buzz than a general mood lift? Take a lot if you want to feel it basically? more of a drug than a medicine?

i take it daily - its one of my top 3 medicinal herbs - its made a major positive impact on my life.

I switch between this & maca weekly, mixing it into fruit smoothies, lovely stuff

Proto-pax

Ashwagandha is an incredible and powerful adaptogen, it has a long medicinal history stemming back 4000 years. I think that everyone should be taking it daily.

Ashwagandha


Chronic

How on earth do you stomach Maca root? I find it to taste so awful i am unable to take it sadly.


Much Peace and Understanding

oh my god I love maca..im drinking it now..it tastes like vanilla...are you sure you had maca? The maca minxx has here is not even slightly bitter..I love the taste of it.

I usually mix it into a fruit smoothie & it only adds a slight taste to it i find, but maybe trying some from a different source would be a good idea

I also heard that Ashwagandha is good for neural protection:

http://www.lef.org/magaz...2006_report_ashwa_01.htm

May I ask what the other two are?

Chronic

My source is a good one i guess having it in a Maca only milkshake isn't the way to go, ill definitely try and mix it into a fruit smoothie in the future.


Here's a link to my source... Organic Maca Powder



Much Peace and Sunshine

ginko biloba and sutherlandia frutescens

Just incase anyone missed the link i posted...

"Over the past five years, the Institute of Natural Medicine at the Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Japan has conducted extensive research into the brain benefits of ashwagandha. The Institute’s scientists were looking for ways to encourage the regeneration of nerve cell components called axons and dendrites in validated models of the human brain. This important research may one day benefit those who have incurred brain injuries due to physical trauma, as well as those who suffer cognitive decline due to destruction of the nerve cell networks from diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Using a validated model of damaged nerve cells and impaired nerve-signaling pathways, re-searchers noted that ashwagandha supported significant regeneration of the axons and dendrites of nerve cells. Furthermore, ashwagandha extract supported the reconstruction of synapses, the junctions where nerve cells communicate with other cells. The investigators concluded that ashwagandha extract helps to reconstruct networks of the nervous system, making it a potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.5

In another study at the same institute, researchers found that ashwagandha helped support the growth of nerve cell dendrites, which allow these cells to receive communications from other cells. This finding suggests that ashwagandha could help heal the brain tissue changes that accompany dementia.6


Finally, in a third published study, the researchers noted that ashwagandha helped promote the growth of both normal and damaged nerve cells, suggesting that the herb may boost healthy brain cell function as well as benefit diseased nerve cells.7

These findings provide tremendous hope that ashwagandha extracts may one day help heal neurodegenerative diseases in humans, freeing patients from the mental prisons of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Clearly, this is just the beginning of research into ashwagandha’s ability to encourage physical re-growth of the brain.

Ashwagandha also shows promise as a treatment for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, chronic neurodegenerative conditions for which there currently are no cures. In a recent study using a standardized model of human Parkinson’s disease, ashwagandha extract reversed all the parameters of Parkinson’s-type neurodegeneration significantly and in a dose-dependent manner.8 Remarkably, an earlier study showed that ashwagandha extract inhibits acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme responsible for breaking down one of the brain’s key chemical messengers. Drugs currently used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, such as Aricept®, act in this very manner to slow the progression of this frightening, mind-robbing disease."

^^This is really interesting stuff. I've read/heard that MDMA damage comes from damage to the axons of neurons, so I wonder of ashwaganda would be of benefit to heavy MDMA users. Combined with Iboga which produces glial cell line-derived neurotophic factor (GDNF) which is highly neuroprotective and can cause new neuronal sprouting, these two plant medicines used together could be highly beneficial for the brain.

Isn't ibogaine an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor as well? I can imagine that you wouldn't want too much inhibition either so i don't know about combining the two.

It's definitely an aphrodisiac, also for males. And it gives me very strong and long lasting erections during the night when taken before bed. Sometimes they last so long that I almost feared it could be some sort of priapism, but it was OK.

Another effect: When I take it before bed: I awake after about 5 hours and feel refreshed and may get up. It's probably like the quality of sleep during the first few hours gets so superb, that you would not need the additional 3 hours you normally take. So this is very good when you have no time and have to get up early.

Just start using ashwagandha extract from a reliable source and I mini-dosed iboga this morning also.
I'll try the two daily for a few days.
New connections hmmm...

Same here. I also take Gingko biloba daily. I'll have to try out the Sutherlandia frutescens you mentioned.