Aniba Canelilla tree and herb

Aniba canelilla is an evergreen tree native to the Amazon rainforest. It has reddish bark and yellow flowers. Canelilla bark and leaves have a cinnamon odor due to1-nitro-2-phenylethane. Aniba canelilla Mez is a medicinal plant used in the Amazon folk therapeutic as antispasmodic, antidiarretic, carminative, tonic agent and a stimulant of the digestive and central nervous system.

Aphrodisiac effect
Mama Juana is a combination of several herbs sold as a sex potion. Mama Juana comes from the Dominican Republic. Aniba Canelilla is one of the herbs often found in Mama Juana.

Analgesic effect cardiovascular effect
The plant essential oil has analgesic activity in mice. The antinociceptive effect of the compound is 1-nitro-2-phenylethane, the main component of the essential oil of Aniba canelilla.

Antinociceptive effect
Antinociceptive activity of 1-nitro-2-phenylethane, the main component of Aniba canelilla essential oil.
Phytomedicine. 2009 Jun; de Lima AB, Santana MB, Cardoso AS, da Silva JK, Maia JG, Carvalho JC, Sousa PJ. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal do Pará, 66075-900 Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Aniba canelilla (H.B.K.) Mez is a medicinal plant used in the Amazon folk therapeutic as antispasmodic, antidiarreic, carminative, tonic agent and a stimulant of the digestive and central nervous system. Our preliminary studies showed that the plant essential oil has analgesic activity in mice. Now, we are reporting the antinociceptive effect of the compound 1-nitro-2-phenylethane (97.5%), the main component of the essential oil of Aniba canelilla, which was obtained by column chromatographic purification. In the writhing test this compound was dosed at 15, 25 and 50 mg/kg reducing the abdominal writhes in a significant manner; in the hot plate test it was assayed at 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg producing no alterations in the latency time when compared to the control; and in the formalin test the 1-nitro-2-phenylethane was tested at 50 and 25 mg/kg decreasing significantly the second phase of the algic stimulus. The study suggests that the 1-nitro-2-phenylethane has analgesic activity, probably of peripheral origin. The mechanism involved is not completely understood, however, the results suggest that the opioid receptors are involved in the antinociceptive action observed to 1-nitro-phenylethane.

Heart effect of Aniba Canelilla
Cardiovascular effects of the essential oil of Aniba canelilla bark in normotensive rats.
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2005 October. Lahlou S, Magalhães PJ, de Siqueira RJ, Figueiredo AF, Interaminense LF, Maia JG, Sousa PJ. Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Cardiovascular effects of intravenous (i.v.) treatment with the essential oil of the bark of Aniba canelilla were investigated in normotensive rats. In both pentobarbital-anesthetized and conscious rats, i.v. bolus injections of Aniba canelilla (1 to 20 mg/kg) elicited similar and dose-dependent hypotension and bradycardia. Our data show that i.v. treatment of rats with Aniba canelilla induces dose-dependent hypotension and bradycardia, which occurred independently. The bradycardia appears mainly dependent upon the presence of an operational and functional parasympathetic drive to the heart. However, the hypotension is due to an active vascular relaxation rather than withdrawal of sympathetic tone. This relaxation seems partly mediated by an endothelial L-arginine / nitric oxide pathway through peripheral muscarinic receptor activation (endothelium-dependent relaxation) and predominantly through an inhibition of calcium inward current (endothelium-independent relaxation)..

Aphrodisiac herbs available over the counter
These include maca, cdp choline brain supplement also an aphrodisiac nutrient, tongkat ali, butea superba, cnidium monnieris, Tribulus-Terrestris extract, mucuna pruriens, horny goat weed, avena sativa, LJ100, muira puama, catuaba, ginger, cistanches, and yohimbe bark extract.