Herbal "cures" can cause erectile dysfunction

For over twenty-five years now, I have been professionally involved in trying to help young men overcome their erectile dysfunction. Sometimes I am successful, sometimes not. However, you would imagine that by now I would be very familiar with all the causes of this most distressing condition. Not so, I am afraid. Only a few weeks ago, two separate but very similar incidences of erectile dysfunction have forced me to conclude that now we have a brand new cause of ED that heretofore simply did not exist. It is difficult to come up with a name for this new cause for ED but for the moment I'm going to call it Quacks Flogging Herbal Cures on the Internet Syndrome or QFHCIS for short.
A few weeks ago, both men, attending me on separate occasions, told me their different but related stories. Both stories were chillingly similar so I will give you Sean's story first to typify this new "disease" -- QFHCIS. Later I will revert to my second patient Victor, and tell you his story.
Up to about a month ago Sean enjoyed a perfectly healthy and normal sexual relationship with his then partner of some three years. One evening he was sitting in front of his laptop ideally surfing away and looking for nothing in particular. Then, purely by chance, he came upon this website with the blue banner heading inviting him to: "GET ROCK HARD IN 3 MINUTES" and a subtitle announcing "Finally give her the all-night multiple organisms she has always yearned for!!"
Now, as I say, up to this moment there was nothing at all wrong with Sean. He got perfectly good spontaneous erections and his partner of some three years never commented or otherwise complained about their sex life together. Now however, suddenly Sean is just a little concerned. He does not get a strong erection in three minutes and he certainly cannot keep it up all-night or anything like it. He wonders to himself if in fact he could be doing a bit better. If he orders two bottles of this herbal concoction, he will get a third one free. This "free" offer is for a limited time only. Hmmmm, Sean thinks to himself.
A week later to the day, the discreet brown paper wrapped package arrives in Sean's post-box. That evening he takes one of the herbal capsules and goes to bed. He snuggles up to his partner and starts making love to her. All is going well except he is not "ROCK HARD" in the promised three minutes but perhaps he is getting there. He does not know it yet, but his mind is straying into a bad place. His mind is going up into the audience and he is now, for the very first time in his life, watching himself trying to get an erection. This is the very worst possible place he could be in. He is now looking at himself and asking questions about his own 'performance' down there on the stage. Is it big enough? Is it hard enough? Is it long enough? Will it last? Will I put it in now? On the other hand, will I wait? When are those herbal concoctions going to start working? These thoughts are blocking out the pleasurable ones usually required to produce a spontaneous erection. Sean's penis is now about as erect as an uncooked cocktail sausage.
A few nights later, just to be sure to be sure, Sean this time takes two of the Cure Erectile Dysfunction herbal capsules the "hard in three minutes" fellows. The very same thing happens -- that is in fact, nothing happens. Because Sean now has deeply entrenched erectile dysfunction, caused by performance anxiety, caused in turn by the blatant lies told on this sensationalised website. Nothing on the website beforehand warned him that this could happen. No, the website was far too busy shouting about rock hard erections in three minutes and her shuddering all-night organisms (that she has always longed for of course. I nearly forgot that bit). Tell me this much, you webmasters and search engines overseers, affiliates, manufacturers, and copywriting gurus, tell me just who is responsible for all of this around here? Moreover, who is going to pick up the pieces of Sean's now ruined life and get him sexually functioning normally again?

Dr Andrew Rynne
http://www.doctorrynne.com

Dr Andrew Rynne is a medical practitioner and writer. He has thirty years experience in treating Sexual Dysfunction but most particularly Erectile Dysfunction and Premature Ejaculation.