10.06.2025
Steroid Plants
List of plant adaptogens seen in the greatest amount of release of natural steroids (testosterone), or stimulation of their release by the body:
| Number | Title | Secreted steroid |
| 1 | Tríbulus terréstris (Creeping anchors) | Steroid Saponins |
| 2 | Coleus forskohlii (Coleus forskolii) | Forskolin |
| 3 | Rhapónticum carthamoides (Leucea safflower) | Ecdysterone |
| 4 | Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) | Steroid lactones (vitanalides) |
| 5 | Lepidium meyeni (Peruvian Maca) | Macamides, alkaloids |
| 6 | Eurycoma longifolia (Tongkat Ali) | Saponins, alkaloids, polyphenols, coumarin, tannins, triterpenes, glycoprotein compounds, eurocomanol, eurocomanon and eurocomalactone |
| 7 | Pausinystalia johimbe (Yohimbe) | Yohimbine |
| 8 | Ajuga turkestanica (Turkestan gum) | Turkesteron |