Botanical Name : Tribulus terrestris
Family : Zygophyllaceae
Common Name : Gokshura

An annual creeping herb used in both traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda for purposes mostly related to cardiovascular health, virility, and urogenital health.

Active Principles:

• Protodioscin, pseudoprotodioscin, dioscin, diosgenin, tribulosin and furostanol and spirostane-based steroidal saponins.
• Protodioscin is seen as an active muscle building compound.
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Tribulus Terrestris Extract Health Benefits:

• Recommended as a remedy for infertility, impotence, erectile dysfunction, and low libido.
• Found to enhance sexual desire, arousal and satisfaction in women with low libido.
• May help to improve sperm count and sperm motility.
• Provides a significantly greater improvement in sexual health.
• Used as an enhancer of human vitality.
• Used for stimulating appetite.
• Act as an astringent, tonic and mood enhancer.
• Appears to be quite potently cardioprotective.
• An adaptogenic herb with antidepressant and anti- stress effects.
• Normalises the increases in corticosterone and adrenocorticotropic hormone.
• May reduce blood pressure via either the kidneys or ACE inhibition.
• Appears to have protective effects in the liver and help normalise cholesterol levels.
• Possesses anti-inflammatory effects.
• May help reduce kidney stone formation in vitro, specifically calcium oxalate stones.
• Effective in increasing urinary output.
• It appears to have general antioxidative and mineral chelating effects in the testicles.
• May increase testicular weight without any abnormal changes in histological structures.
• Possesses diuretic properties and can be possibly beneficial for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
• Appears to increase DNA repair in skin cells that are exposed to radiation.

Dosage: About 500-600 mg per day for adults.

It is popular as a general health supplement and as an ingredient in testosterone booster supplements.