How To Use Alura™ ?
Tear off the top of the Alura™ tube and dispense a small amount onto your fingertip. Each tube contains 2-3 applications.
Alura™ contains menthol, which will create a warm, tingling sensation. It is recommended that you initially apply a small amount of the cream, adding more as needed.
Apply Alura™ directly to the clitoral area making certain to work Viacreme into the tissue on the underside of the clitoris.
Touching and rubbing the genital and clitoral area with Alura™ will cause blood vessels to dilate and fill with blood. The warm tingling sensation will intensify, resulting in orgasmic response. Results may vary from person to person and may require more than one application in order to achieve maximum results.

How Does Alura™ work?
When applied, the active ingredients in Alura™ stimulate the tissue surfaces, resulting in increased blood flow and dilation of the blood vessels in the clitoral area. Response time varies with each individual woman. To activate the pleasurable tingling, warming effects of Alura™, sexual stimulation of touching and rubbing in the clitoral area, and other activities of foreplay may be required.
Alura™ is to be applied to the mucus membrane, beneath the clitoris, and thoroughly rubbed in to help absorption. The clitoral hood is partially keratinized and absorbs medication less than the non-keratinized underside of the clitoris. The penile shaft is keratinized epithelium and poorly absorbs medications. Alura™ has two components, a very weak concentration of menthol and a weak concentration of L-Arginine. The menthol helps with the absorption of the L-Arginine. The menthol has also been reported to cause a reflex vaginal lubrication, even though the Alura™ is placed on the clitoris, and not in the vagina. The L-Arginine is intended to induce the Nitric Oxide synthase pathway to create Nitric Oxide and dilate the corpus cavernosa to maximally fill with blood. Orgasm can only occur with continuous stimulation of the maximally aroused clitoris! Alura™ need "sexual stimulation" such as odors, thoughts, rubbing, kissing, genital touching, and foreplay to initiate the impulses down the spinal cord, pudendal nerves, and clitoral nerves to establish sexual response.

Does Alura™ restore or increase a woman's libido?
No, and yes! Libido is documented to be related to the circulatory level of testosterone for all women. Clinically libido can be improved by estrogen or estrogen/testosterone administration to women on oral contraceptives, birth control injections, or implants. If a woman has a positive experience (orgasm) with intercourse, she is more likely to welcome or encourage another sexual experience. This type of libido is not hormone dependent, but experience related. Alura™ can help a woman achieve orgasm, especially if her partner is intent upon her achieving orgasm.

Can a woman expect instant results from Alura™?
No. Although some women report immediate sensations, most women who clinically tested Alura™ reported progressively improved responses through three or more successive uses of the Alura™.

Is Alura™ safe if ingested?
Yes, the two components menthol and L-Arginine are safe. Menthol in cough preparations contains ten times the amount of menthol as Alura™. L-Arginine has 40 micrograms per application. 100mg L-Arginine are ingested in preparations from Health Food Stores.

Can condoms be used with Alura™ or will the condom break?
Alura™ is compounded in a water base not a petroleum base. Condom breakage is reported as a problem with petroleum but not with water based products.

Who can benefit from Alura™?
Over 46% of the women in America experienced little or no sexual satisfaction from clitoral orgasm and only 25% achieve orgasm with intercourse. In fact, countless numbers of women, between ages of 18 and 80, do not even know what an orgasm is or how it is achieved. Whether you are multi-orgasmic or among the 46% of women who are sexually frustrated, every women who desires maximum sexual fulfillment, greater intimacy and enhanced relationship stands to benefit from regular use of Alura™.

What if Alura™ does not work for me?
If the Alura™ does not work, it could be because of a lack of estrogen mediated "youthfulness" of the vulva tissue. This can be replaced with oral or transdurmal estrogen, or vaginal estrogen creams or inserts (ESTRing ). It will probably take 2-3 months of therapy before an adequate genital response can re-estrogenize the vulvar tissues. Estrotest is combined estrogen/testosterone tablet. This used once or twice/day can help with both re-extrogenizations of vulvar tissues and to help improve libido.
Every women is uniquely different. Individual problems like decreased estrogen can cause decreased sexual responsiveness. Birth control pills, injections, implants, hormone replacement therapy and menopause can cause decreased estrogen. Other problems like stress, fatigue or depression can also cause problems with sexual responsiveness.

How strong is Alura™?
Alura™ contains very small concentrations of menthol and L-Arginine. Because a women's genital tissues are extremely sensitive, Alura™ can easily stimulate a vigorous tingle when applied.

Does the menthol in Alura™ burn?
Usually the 0.25% menthol will cause a tingle and warmth when applied, If a patient reports burning, either she has a decreased estrogen effect in the vulvar tissues (common with birth control medications and menopause), a sub-clinical vulvar irritation due to yeast or some other infection, detergents used to wash underwear, or fragrances used in toilet tissue. The precaution for Alura™ is to discontinue use if irritation develops. Alura™ can again be tried after the underlying problem is identified and corrected.

Does Alura™ affect the man?
Men whose partner is using Alura™ sometimes report a menthol effect on the gland and corona of the penis. This has been reported as "cooling" and pleasant, not unpleasant.

Does Alura™ treat Female Sexual Dysfunction?
No! Alura™ is intended to help enhance and increase a woman's sexual responsiveness; it is not a treatment for sexual dysfunction.

Is Alura™ safe?
Alura™ is produced under strict GMP (good manufacturing practices) in an FDA approved pharmaceutical facility. Menthol in Alura™ is less than in a cough drop that is orally absorbed. L-Arginine determined a single use of Alura™is 40 micrograms; 30 grams were given IV to pregnant patients (29) to treat preclamsia (high blood pressure) without adverse effect.

Does Alura™ require a prescription, or is it OTC?
Neither, Alura™ is a consumer product to help a woman with sexual responsiveness. To require a prescription or to be an OTC drug, the FDA approval process is required. The FDA approval process consists of 2 tests: 1) Where your product is manufactured. 2) Proof of any claims you make. The first test is satisfied. Alura™ is made like prescription and OTC drugs, under GMP in an FDA approved pharmaceutical facility. The second test is absolutely unattainable. The FDA currently does not recognize an objective test to measure clitoral erection. Multiple modalities have been evaluated, but none can satisfactorily measure the effect of drugs on clitoral erection. Any subjective test by asking patients about their responses to a medication are doomed to failure because a woman's sexual responsiveness is so complex, individualistic, and dependant on the knowledge and caring of her partner, to help her achieve orgasm.