Velvet bean and Increased Total Testosterone

• Beyond tribulus (Tribulus terrestris L.): The effects of phytotherapics on testosterone, sperm and prostate parameters.

  • 2019-05
  • Review
  • Journal of ethnopharmacology 235
  • • Heitor O Santos
    • Scott Howell
    • Filipe J Teixeira

  • PubMed: 30790614
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.02.033

  3 Insights on

  • Increased Total Testosterone

  • Low evidence

  Moderate evidence supports the use of ... black seeds ... to increase total T and improve seminal parameters.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  5000 mg/d of powdered mucuna seed