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There are many claims made in this article about epimedium does, but no references for which the facts can be verified. There are lot of salespeople out there trying to claim that their herbs do wonderful things, but this article should so some proof rather than merely regurgitate claims made by the snake-oil companies.

The Chinese characters for this plant are 淫羊藿, literally lewd/licentious/horny-goat/sheep-"huo"-a plant name. Dylanwhs 12:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The two pieces that would connect the power/efficicay of Epimedium to the more popular and heavily documented forms of erectile function compounds such as Viagra are the extract concetration and metabolism components - specifically how much icariin is in an particular extract, and how much must be ingested to be metabolized into the sufficient concentrations in the corpus callusom of the penis relative to Viagra. We know the IS50 and ES50 for in vitro incubation, but not the oral adminstration/metabolism to achieve those concentations. Teloscientist 20:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propogation

This is a beautiful plant, I personally do not care about it's medicinal properties, I don't typically have goats in my yard, if I did I might be somewhat concerned. I will have to watch for roaming deer though (hee hee).

I would like to try to start it from seed. does anyone have any suggestions on what conditions, if it needs to be stratified etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.108.233.52 (talk) 17:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

does goat weed with maca show up on a UA

Does any one know about super goat weed ..Does it show up on a UA?

they are not illegal drugs of abuse, so, i doubt the UA looks for them.