Female Viagra will help women increase their sexual arousal

A female equivalent of Viagra could soon be available to help women increase their sexual arousal, scientists claim.

For years they have endeavoured to create an alternative for women that mimics the effects of the male Viagra pill.

Now, the pharmaceutical company behind the original pill has created a prototype which increases blood flow to the genitalia in a similar way to Viagra

More than half of women experience sexual dysfunction at some point in their lives.

They may suffer a lack of desire, emotional or mental health problems and physical problems that mean they avoid having sex.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has developed a drug, so far called only UK-414,495, which is supposed to increase sexual arousal, but will not affect desire, mood or emotional problems.

Some women take Viagra with mixed results and the drug has been used in fertility treatment to increase blood flow to the pelvis and encourage an embryo to implant in the womb.

But this is the first pill that claims to be an equivalent of the male Viagra.

The research, which involved animals, is published by the British Journal of Pharmacology, though Pfizer say they won’t develop the drug and warn that the chemical may not work the same way in humans, according to the Telegraph.

Chris Wayman, the lead researcher, said: ‘Before this work, we knew surprisingly little about the processes that control all of these changes.

Now that we are beginning to establish the pathways involved in sexual arousal, scientists may be able to find ways of helping women who would like to overcome female sexual arousal disorder.

‘While the particular chemical compound in this research did not prove appropriate for further developments, the implications of the research could lead to the development of a product in the future.’

Viagra was originally developed as a treatment for high blood pressure and the heart condition angina, but men who took part in early trials realised the drug had an interesting side effect.

Clinical trials suggested the drug had little effect on angina and instead induced erections in men.

The drug first went on sale in 1998 and has since been prescribed to 25million men, creating a multi-billion pound global market.

The name Viagra has become so associated with men’s erectile dysfunction problems that many cures are marketed as ‘herbal viagra’.

It is known by many nicknames, including Vitamin V and the Blue Pill.

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Source: Dailymail news paper.