Prosexual Effect of Chrysactinia mexicana A. Gray (Asteraceae), False Damiana, in a Model of Male Sexual Behavior

Table 1

Effect of the treatments on the number and percentage (%) of sexually exhausted male rats that expressed sexual behavior.

Treatments	Mounts	Intromissions	Ejaculation	Resuming
Vehicle,	9 (45)	7 (35)	7 (35)	0 (0)
Cm 80 mg/kg,	3 (43)	3 (43)	3 (43)	1 (14.3)
Cm 160 mg/kg,	6 (60)	6 (60)	6 (60)	1 (10)
Cm 320 mg/kg,	11 (100)	11 (100)	10 (90.9)	6 (54.5)
Td 80 mg/kg,	9 (81.8)	8 (72.7)	10 (90.9)	7 (63.6)
Yoh 2 mg/kg,	10 (100)	10 (100)	10 (100)	10 (100)

Left side of the table depicts the total number of subjects that were assigned to each group of treatment before the session of ad libitum copulation. Columns of the right side depict the number (and percentage) of sexually exhausted males that showed mounts, intromissions, and ejaculation or that resumed copulation in the test of sexual behavior. Treatments were administered 24 h after ad libitum copulation, and 1 h before the sexual behavior test. An aqueous extract of C. mexicana (Cm); an aqueous extract of T. diffusa (Td) and yohimbine (Yoh).