Call it manpower, body energizer or
action pill, you are referring to the same
thing. Also generally known as
‘qurantanshi’ by its seller most of who
are from the northern Nigerian region,
or ‘ogun aleko’ by the Yoruba herbal
sellers of western Nigeria, aphrodisiac,
otherwise called libodo boosters are
getting increasing popular amongst
young adults and sexually active men
to boost their sexual prowess.
No one will openly admit using them,
but checks and interaction with users
and the growing influx of sellers alike
suggests that the sale of libido
enhancers is an emerging booming
business in Nigeria, with users
increasing in bounds by the day.
It isn’t any secret to posit that sexual
activity is part of the norm of the
Nigerian society as the average man
does engage in one form of sexual
activity or the other, as the satisfaction
thereof, serves as a cushion to the
myriads of challenges encountered in
the day to day activities of our socio-
economic life.
In the face of increasing tasks of
surviving in a country like Nigeria, with
a harsh socio economic environment,
paucity of funds to meet daily basic
needs, limiting income generating
opportunities, hazardous working and
living environmental, work pressures
and stress, comes the increasing
craving to use sex as a tranquilizer or as
an escapist mechanism to cushion the
pressures life throws every day.
Unlike before when sexual matters were
discussed in hushed tones, the general
society today speaks sexual allures,
from advert posters, models used for
marketing products on billboards, the
dress sense and fashion trends of
ladies, scenes in music videos, movies
shown in television programme, and
erotic pictures in the magazines, etc.
Unfortunately, life has made it that it is
the men, being the more responsive to
erotic allures that are at the receiving
end of all the sexual allures and
inability or a semblance on inability to
satisfy their feminine partners, is a crux
or ‘the sword of Damocles’ that they
carry on a dented ego. Men are
expected to be in charge sexually and it
is in this issue of satisfying female
partners that the use of aphrodisiacs
comes to play, and increasing so, as
vendors of aphrodisiacs in their
variants, spring up day by day within
the city centres.
Just as there are local variants of
aphrodisiacs, such as a mixture of local
gin and herbs, which come in forms
called Agbo Gbogbonise, Sepe or
Paraga, so are there well packaged
industrially made variants in packets of
pills, or tablet such as Spanish fly,
Enpulse, Vimax, Virillis, M-Energex,
High T, Male X and those in liquid forms
like Alomo bitters to mention a few.
While the likes of Sepe and Paraga have
its target consumers made up of the
mass of not too educated persons like
bus drivers, mechanics, labourers and
the likes, the package variants like
Vimax, High T and Virillis reaches to the
elite and upwardly mobile persons
across sections of the society of the
working class professionals and
vocational disciplines. However, one
thing is a common, whether for the low
class or the upward mobile elite, the
users or buyers of both variants of
libido boosters have the same and
common purpose and mission- the
ability to sexually satisfy their partners.
“You know one of the most painful thing
that can happen to any man is to be a
lily-jelly with his woman”, said Segun
Adekanni, a self-confessed regular user
of one of the variants of the local herbal
mixture. “I cannot forget the experience
I had with one lady I wanted to marry
some years ago, who because I couldn’t
perform satisfactorily left me and
followed another man.
The thing pained me because this is a
girl that I like so much and have really
spent for, even to the point of paying
part of her school fees for her National
Diploma (ND) programme in a
polytechnic. It was because I was doing
‘gentle, gentle’ for her that made her to
jilt me and follow another man,” he
remorsefully narrated. “The thing really
pained me and that was when I told my
friend who introduced me to taking
‘agbo’ (the generic term for local herbs)
, ‘and true-true, I see that the thing
make me perform well-well, because I
try am’” he recalled, in native Yoruba
language interspersed with pidgin
english.
“Since then, I have been a regular user
and not only because of woman, but
also to clear my body of mende-mende
(toxicants),” he added. “The type you
take depends on what you want it for,
like example, Paraga or Sepe is good for
manpower, while agbo jedi is for pile,
and Opa eyin is for waist pain, and all
these are what affects a man’s ability to
perform”, explained Adekanni, a steel
fabricator and father of two, who said
he shall remain a life-long user of agbo
Opa eyin, which he credits to being an
aphrodisiac made from a mixture of
local herbs and alcoholic spirits.
Aphrodisiac, derived from the Greek
goddess ‘Aphrodite’, the goddess of
love and sexual desire, is a substance
that increases sexual desire or that
helps stimulate arousal or enhance
sexual performance. According to
researchers, aphrodisiac is made from
both herbal and other kinds of materials
in foods, drinks and chemical drugs,
and it is used in order to stimulate
arousal, treat sexual dysfunction, and
make intercourse for men (and also
women) more pleasurable.
Though sexual performance enhancing
drugs were traditionally designed to
rectify erectile dysfunction in men, but
the case today is different, as most men
who use it now do so with the mindset
to show their ‘might’ over and above
their female partners during
intercourse.
“Use of herbs to solve sexual problems
is not new to the Nigerian society”,
offered Madam Joke Adebayo, a
traditional herb seller, who are called
‘Elewe omo’ in native Yoruba language.
“We have all these as herbs around us
and the use is derived as part of our
own culture. We have been using a
combination of these herbs as agbo to
treat many ailments before the white
man came so, there is really nothing
new in using herbs, only that now, we
have all sorts of people selling all sort of
things as agbo, all in the name of
making money.
Most of the hawkers you see around
selling agbo in the bus stops and parks
are actually selling slow poison because
most of them do not know the history,
use or the origin of the herbs they sell,
especially those people that sell it with
mixtures of Ogogoro or kain kain (local
dry gin). What is Sepe, what is Paraga?
They are all of the same but with
different names to lure people, using
Ogogoro as a bait. They just get some
herbs mixed with Ogogoro and sell and
when you take it, you head will swell
and you will feel high, when actually,
what they are taking is pure alcoholic
spirits, which is harmful to the body”,
she noted.
According to her, “elewe
omo” (tradition herb sellers or trado
medicals or alternative medical
practitioners) do not sell mixture-like
concoctions. “We also do research and
have names for different herbs and
each herbal plant have their specific
uses. The knowledge of herbs is ancient
and passed down from generation to
generation and what we do when
people come to us is to prescribed
herbs (of relevant tree barks, plant
leaves or roots), depending on what
ailment your want to treat, and you go
home and do the mixture yourself, in
measured quantity that we shall tell
you, and mostly with water and not
with ogogoro.
We have a registered association and
we have guidelines for the operations of
our members. Most of these people who
sell agbo mixtures at the bus top are
quacks who just get some herbs, mix it
with ogogoro and sell and the people
who buy it, take it for the sake of the
ogogoro inside, not because of the
herb”, she further added.
Buttressing this point of view, a regular
consumer of local herbal mixture, Kunle
Afolabi noted that people take Sepe or
Paraga just to find a short cut to staying
strong. “There is nothing really
beneficial in taking Sepe other than for
just wanting to make yourself high or
feel some sensation in your body. The
ogogoro is the main influence for taking
it, because it makes me feel hot and
high. Sometimes, when I am feeling dull
and not happy, I will take it so that I will
have some hot sensation to clear my
head.
It charges my body quickly and I stand
up strong”, he noted. Afolabi who is a
mechanic said though he knows it is
harmful, he still derives pleasure in
taking it, especially at the close of the
day as that is part of what relaxes his
mind and puts him in the mood to
going home happy. “I know that it is not
good for my body, and that is
sometimes why I take Paraga, which is
better refined than Sepe. The difference
between the two is that Sepe is made
with mixture of ogogoro while Paraga is
made with mixture of dry gin or Chelsea
and has flavour,” he added.
“You know every man has his levels, so
sometimes, I will take Paraga, instead of
Sepe because it has the chemical of dry
gin inside. Sometimes, I can ask the
women to also do a special one and
make the agbo to be fortified and mixed
with 501 (a brand of whisky) to
enhance my alertness and virility for
sexual performance,” he further
declared.
Afolabi’s friend, Rasheed Raji, however,
noted that taking of alcoholic based
herbal mixture is an attitudinal
problem.
According to him, most people who take
Sepe or Paraga do so in relation to their
financial level. “I cannot take Sepe or
Paraga because it doesn’t agree with
my system. I tried it sometimes ago
and I develop terrible headache, so for
me, what I take to boost or charge
myself is stout, which is also okay. The
truth is that our body systems has to be
de-toxicated as a lot of fat is gained
from the food we eat which affects a
man’s sexual performance and virility,
so when I want to charge myself, I mix a
tin of milk with a bottle of stout which
increases my sexual performance”, he
explained. Describing Sepe and Paraga
as killers because of the alcoholic
content in it, he say a simple test to
proof this is to cut a piece of fresh meat
and then pour ogogoro on it.
“When you pour ogogoro on a piece of
raw meat, the ogogoro within few
seconds, will cook the meat and you will
see the meat looking as if it has been
boiled. This shows what ogogoro does
to our heart and intestine. It is not good
for the body but because people just
want something to burn them and
make them shine their eyes and feel
high, they continue to take it”, he
added, however, noting that he believes
in herbs and does take it, but it is the
one prepared with water. “Agbo is good
and has curative tendencies, and there
are different kind of agbo, like one for
jedi-jedi (pile), iba (malaria), opa eyin
(waist pain) and so on. These agbo
works, but what is not good is when you
now use style to be drinking ogogoro,
under the pretences that you are taking
herbal mixture,” he admonished.
“I dey sell am for manpower and also
wetin you fit use if you get small thing
wey you want to make big and strong”,
said Sule Adamu, a retail seller of herb
based aphrodisiac known in Hausa
language as qurantanshi. Sule, who
plies his trade in the Agege area and
has about five years in the business,
said his clients, mostly men, come
around to his makeshift mobile stand,
especially in the evenings. “This one is
for jedi-jedi and to wash away sugar
and waste pain so that you go dey
strong kakaraka for woman, he said
producing a plastic bottle containing
dried tree barks which cost N500.
“You go mix am with water make it
soak before you come use am, and you
go use am morning and evening so you
body go clean and your body go dey
strong”, he added, in quivering pidgin
English as he tried to convince the
writer of the efficacy of his products. In
three minutes, he had mentioned a
range of his products, including
bringing out different packets of libido
boosters, which are not displayed on his
table, whose price ranges between N1,
000 to N2, 500, though it is also
available at retail prices of N50-N100
per sachet and pills.
However, in spite of the existing
misgivings and infiltrations of quacks
into herbal care provision in Nigeria,
there is no disputing the fact that herbs
have power to boost libido as a study by
Nigerian researchers have unveiled nine
local plants that can repair sexual and
reproductive disorders in mammals.
According to the study carried out by
the researchers from the College of
Medicine University of Lagos (CMUL),
Idi-Araba, there is evidence to support
the acclaimed role of plants as
aphrodisiacs in traditional medicine.
In the study titled: “Lipid Peroxidation
of selected Aphrodisiac Plants” and
published in several international
journals including Planta Medica (An
International Journal of Natural Products
and medicinal Plant Research),
Chukwuma Muanya, under the
supervision of Dr. Olukemi Odukoya of
the Pharmacognosy Department, CMUL,
interviewed a total of 17 herb sellers in
Mushin-Olosha open herbal market in
Lagos using unstructured
questionnaires. Findings from the study
reveal nine plants which the herb
sellers recommended and which were
identified at the Department of
Pharmacognosy, CMUL through
literature using local names.
Further confirmation of the identity of
the plants identity carried out with
assistance of Mr. Wale Ekundayo at the
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
(FRIN) herbarium in Ibadan, named the
plants as Lecaniodiscus cupanioides,
which belongs to the Sapindaceae
family and is called Kaa-fi-naamaa-zaaki
in Hausa, Okpu in Igbo and Egbo Akika
in Yoruba; Cnestis ferruginea, which is
of the Connaraceae family. It is called
Fura amarya in Hausa, Okpu in Igbo,
and Egbo Gboyingboyin in Yoruba;
Carpolobia lutea, of the plant family
Polygalaceae and known as Agba or
Angalagala in Igbo and Egbo
Oshunshun in Yoruba; Cissus populnea,
belonging to the plant family Vitaceae.
It is called Daafaaraa, Malaiduwa or
Maleduwa in Hausa, and Ogbolo pupa in
Yoruba.
The others include Microdermis
keayana, which is of the plant family
Pandaceae. It is called Akpalataa in
Igbo, and Idiakpata in Yoruba; Cassia
sieberiana, which is of plant family
Leguminosae and known to the Hausas
as Araho, Gama fada, Gamdafadaa,
gwazkiya or Margaa, and Aridan toro in
Yoruba; Chasmanthera dependens
which is of Menispermaceae family and
known as Egbo Atoh in Yoruba. The
plants also include Anthocleista
djalonens belonging to the plant family
Loganiaceae and known as Kwarii in
Hausa, Okpokolo in Igbo, and Egbo
Sapoo in Yoruba, as well as Dioscorea
cayenensis, which is of the plant family
Dioscoreaceae and known as Dooyar
kudu in Hausa, Ji-Agbana in Igbo, and
Egbo Igangan in Yoruba.
The researchers concluded thus:
“Results of this study have provided
evidence to support the acclaimed role
of these nine medicinal plants as an
aphrodisiac in traditional medicine. It
has also provided scientific evidence to
its purported aphrodisiac effect. The
aqueous extract of the roots of these
plants may be adduced to increase the
testosterone level of the blood, which
may be due to saponin component. The
aqueous extract of freshly cut roots: L.
cupanioides, C. ferruginea, C. lutea, C.
populnea, M. keayana, C. sieberiana, C.
dependens, A. djalonensis, and D.
cayenensis may thus be used to modify
impaired sexual functions, especially in
men.”
However, beyond the use of local herbs,
there are also well package libido
boosters from other lands, which are
the hotcakes for the elite and upward
mobile in the aphrodisiac market. These
ones are not sold in the open drug
market, but by specialized vendors and
organizations who serves as Nigeria
outlets and subsidiary companies of the
manufacturers.. Such outlets are
located in the high brow and posh areas
like Ikeja GRA, Victoria Island and Lekki
axis of Lagos where their clients and
customers are located. These vendor
and outlets also have cute and
dedicated staffs to meet the kind of
clients they are targeted for.
While a few these outlets have
syndicated columns in newspapers
which they use to drive the attention of
clients to their products, others use web
based and social media platforms to
reach target customers. Vendors in
these variants of libido boosters targets
the rich of the society, the young elite
and the upward mobile. The prices of
the products speaks to the class of the
target audience as prices of their
products ranges between N2,500 to
N15,000. Investigation also reveals that
apart from products for men, these
vendors and outlet also have sexual
arousal products for women too!
Emeka Eze, a businessman, however
does not believe that people should use
sex enhancers. According to him,
aphrodisiacs may have side effects that
would on the long run affect ones
health. “Why should a man shorten his
life trying to satisfy his partner in bed?
There are a lot of side effects in using
such drugs” he declared, as a matter of
fact. This, Dr. Kunle Taiwo of the
Medical Emergency, Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH)
said may always not be the case.
According to him, using sex booster is
good for those who have problems with
their sexual life, but at the same time, it
is not advisable to use for people who
have heart related problems.
“People who have health problems
should avoid using sex enhancers or
libido boosters because it can lead to
sudden death. Apart from that, it is
safe”, he said. “If you have been
diagnosed to be hypertensive or you are
managing a heart related problem,
heart failure and things like that, you
should avoid using it” he warned.
According to him, people who also use
herbal mixture as stimulants are also
endangering their lives. “It is all a lie
when people tell you that Sepe, Paraga
or Alomo increase their sexual
performance. These substances have up
to 40 per cent alcohol content which is
harmful to the body. They are just
deceiving themselves and endangering
their health and lives,” he said.
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