The Passion Potion: Damiana Essential Oil

The Passion Potion
Damiana Essential Oil is sourced from Mexico, from the Turnera Diffusa plant, a small flowering shrub, which can be found from Southern Texas through Central and South America.

Historically it was used by the Aztecs and Mayans as a tea to help with sleep, reduce stress and uplift sexual energy. 

Using it both topically and aromatically, Damiana Essential Oil is connected to the sacral chakra and has been shown to help with libido, frigidity, and impotence with an uplifting effect by increasing circulation and sensitivity to sex organs. 

Celebrate with Damiana
Damiana Essential Oil is an oil of celebration. It uplifts, inspires, and helps us connect at a higher level with ourselves, our relationships, and our environment.

Through these lifted connections, we can celebrate life, our creations, and our passions with greater ease and joy.

Here’s some trivia for your next game night: Damiana is thought to be part of the original recipe for the Margarita cocktail!

The citrusy chamomile-like essence was likely used in the place of something like Triple Sec. Yum! Damiana was also part of the original recipe for Coca-Cola. Pemberton’s French Wine Coco was a medicinal beverage that contained wine, damiana, cocaine, and kola nuts.

This concoction was sold as a cure for nerve trouble, digestive issues, headaches, and most importantly, as an “invigorator of the sexual organs.” It’s Party Time!

Sacral Steadiness
Damiana Essential Oil can be helpful in balancing the emotions connected to sexual and menstrual issues.  Damiana helps to ease these problems because it relaxing, balancing and uplifting.  

It has been shown effective in reducing anxiety and promoting creativity. When less anxious and stressed, there can be improvements in digestion as well.  

Damiana Essential Oil continues to be used to help relieve constipation and reduce painful intestinal and endometrial cramping. 

Damiana Essential Oil is strongly connected to the sacral chakra, demiurgic creation and the Aztec fertility god and goddess’.

Xochipilli is the god of love, art, game, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility and song. Xochiquetzal is the goddess of fertility, female sexual power, beauty, and is the protector of mothers, pregnancy, childbirth and women’s crafts.

Inspirational recipes for celebrations, challenges and the sacral chakra follow below.