Our food and diet plays the central role in sexual potency or impotency. Food is digested and converted into healthy or unhealthy blood. This blood then is converted into semen, the lifeblood of man’s sexual activities. It is therefore imperative that such foods be ingested that become a source of healthy blood and semen. Such foods that will grant strength to the body, the mind and the heart after sexual indulgence; because sexual indulgence weakens the human body considerably.

An assortment of various suitable foods for sexual potency are now presented:
GRAINS:-

1. Wheat
2. Chana
3. Peas
4. Beans
5. Rice
6. Sesame seeds (Tal)

GREENS

1. Onions
2. Garlic
3. Bindha
4. Pumpkin, Gourds
5. Turnips
6. Beetroot
7. Carrots
8. Potato
9. Ginger
10. Coconut

FRUITS

1. Grapes
2. Mango
3. Pomegranate
4. Bananas
5. Figs
6. Apple
7. Pineapples
8. Sweet-Melons
9. Guavas

NUTS AND SNACKS

1. Cashews
2. Peanuts
3. Wall nuts
4. Chilgoza
5. Dates
6. Raisins
7. Olives
8. Sultanas
9. Honey

ANIMALS

1. All Halaal Birds
2. Chicks (baby chickens)
3. Pigeon
4. Duck
5. Fish
6. Red Meats
7. Liver

DAIRY PRODUCTS

1. Milk
2. Sour Milk
3. Yogurt
4. Butter
5. Cheese

SPICES

1. Black pepper
2. Safron
3. Elachi
4. Lawang
5. Jaifal
6. Itr (Perfumes)

Hazrat Ali (Radiyallahu-Anhum) reports that once a person complained to Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alayhi-Wasallam) that he had no children (probably due to lack of potency). Rasulullah(Sallallahu-Alayhi-Wasallam) advised him to eat eggs.

On one occasion Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alayhi-Wasallam) complained to Hazrat Jibraeel (Alayhimus-Salaam) replied that he should eat Harisah, for it has the strength of 40 men. Harisah is a kind of thick soup made of crushed wheat, mixed with meat, butter, certain spices, etc.