page_title: Butea superba
section_title: Efficacy
hierarchical_section_title: Butea superba / Efficacy
caption_attribution_description: English: (Butea superba) sapling in the Eastern Ghats near Samedha in Visakhapatnam district
context_page_description: Butea superba is a vining shrub in the legume family Fabaceae, native to India and mainland Southeast Asia.
context_section_description: Existing open trials have come to conflicting conclusions about the efficacy of butea, though they used completely different products at different doses and in different populations. No placebo-controlled clinical studies exist so far to support aphrodisiac activity.
caption: Sapling in the Eastern Ghats of India
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