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The Love Shake
This is way beyond your average smoothie!
2 tablespoons organic chocolate powder
2 cups almond milk
4 dried figs (preferably organic Turkish), soaked
1 frozen banana
A touch of vanilla extract
2 tablespoons maca powder
Frozen organic raspberries (optional)
2 dropperfuls fresh damiana tincture (optional)
2 dropperfuls ginger tincture (optional)
1/2 to 1 teaspoon red ginseng powdered extract

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend.

Excerpted from The Sexual Herbal, by Brigitte Mars (Healing Arts Press, 2010). Recipe by Chistopher Hobbs, coauthor of Peterson’s A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs.