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The white water lily plant (Nymphaea alba L.) and the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea [L.] Sibth.- Sm.), though belonging to different botanical genders, have very similar properties. The difference between them is the color of their flowers.
The flowers and rhizomes of water lilies contain tannin and alkaloids (nymphalini and nupharin). The most outstanding property of these plants is anaphrodisiac; that is, they decrease sexual desire. The coldness and quietness of the places they grow suggest this. This was why water lilies were grown in monastery cloisters, though we have no proof they had ever achieved the desired results. Font Quer said that water lilies could also produce a reverse effect: excitation.
The 16th-century Spanish physician Andres de Laguna believed water lilies had calming properties. He said their root can “suppress and stop sexual dreams, and when drunk, frequently drunk, in a short time the unmentionable male member becomes weak and flaccid.” Today, water lilies are not used as much as medicinal herbs in past times.
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