Both in China and elsewhere the earliest aphrodisiacs and impotency remedies were all made from natural ingredients. In ancient Rome, edicts were often issued forbidding women to use aphrodisiacs because of their overly powerful effect. The sex drugs described in ancient Chinese texts seem a mixture of medicine, myth and superstition.
不論中外，最早的催情藥都是採集天然花草而成，古羅馬婦女調製的催情藥因為藥性過猛，曾經導致一度被下令禁用。