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There are many claims made in this article about epimedium does, but no references for which the facts can be verified. There are lot of salespeople out there trying to claim that their herbs do wonderful things, but this article should so some proof rather than merely regurgitate claims made by the snake-oil companies.

The Chinese characters for this plant are 淫羊藿, literally lewd/licentious/horny-goat/sheep-"huo"-a plant name. Dylanwhs 12:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The two pieces that would connect the power/efficicay of Epimedium to the more popular and heavily documented forms of erectile function compounds such as Viagra are the extract concetration and metabolism components - specifically how much icariin is in an particular extract, and how much must be ingested to be metabolized into the sufficient concentrations in the corpus callusom of the penis relative to Viagra. We know the IS50 and ES50 for in vitro incubation, but not the oral adminstration/metabolism to achieve those concentations. Teloscientist 20:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Propogation

This is a beautiful plant, I personally do not care about it's medicinal properties, I don't typically have goats in my yard, if I did I might be somewhat concerned. I will have to watch for roaming deer though (hee hee).

I would like to try to start it from seed. does anyone have any suggestions on what conditions, if it needs to be stratified etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.108.233.52 (talk) 17:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

does goat weed with maca show up on a UA

Does any one know about super goat weed ..Does it show up on a UA?

they are not illegal drugs of abuse, so, i doubt the UA looks for them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.106.165 (talk) 06:25, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Species formerly placed here

This section makes no sense. There is no indication these plants were ever placed in this genus and the ref cited does not support any of this section's assertions. I propose the whole thing be removed barring supporting references. Nickrz (talk) 21:17, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it seems that Vancouveria hexandra was originally Epimedium hexandrum (see [1]), but I agree that there's no evidence that all the species of Vancouveria were placed in Epimedium, so I will remove the section. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Material on use in traditional Chinese medicine

@User:Evergreenherbs: There are several problems with your repeated additions to the article which I and others have reverted. Firstly, it's not in an appropriate style, especially for the lead, which should be a text summary of the article. Secondly, any medical claims must be supported to the standards of WP:MEDRS – please read this guidance. Thirdly, Wikipedia articles aren't just accumulations of facts about a topic. They have to have a coherence and balance. Fourthly, your edit summary says that the material is an "extract" from a book. If it is, then it violates copyright.

You need to read the links in the introduction to Wikipedia at your talk page (User talk:Evergreenherbs) and understand how Wikipedia works before making such large additions to articles. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

'Also known as'

Is there a citation for use of alternative names, such as 'Rowdy Lamb Herb' and 'Randy Beef Grass'? 62.200.53.6 (talk) 13:59, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There should be citations for all vernacular names. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A single Chinese word is used for both goats and sheep, so Rowdy Lamb Herb is just an alternate literal translation.71.63.160.210 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:07, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Herbal use

In this article, I was hoping to find out what parts of the plant are used as an herb. For example, is it just the leaves, seeds, flowers, stems, roots, or some combination or all of those parts. For my purposes, I was wondering if the stems in the herbs I buy are beneficial or just represent a lower quality product. 216.191.116.3 (talk) 17:51, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is usually listed as above-ground parts, but in the image on the original page it just shows leaves. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417170752/https://tcmwiki.com/wiki/yin-yang-huo This is typical. Ideally you would only have leaves and small stems, but the herbal references usually just say above-ground parts.71.63.160.210 (talk) 05:58, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]