Description

Yohimbine is a well known alkaloid that was isolated from Pausinystalia johimbe tree in the end of IXX century. In the folk medicine, it was used as an aphrodisiac. Yohimbine is actually a very well known pharmacological research tool in the field of adrenoreceptor research because of its ability to block alpha-2 adrenoreceptor (and, thus, increase hyperadrenergic effects) selectively provided that the doses are low. Read more about Yohimbine.