Kayu Rapat

What a man experiences during sexual intercourse has much, much more weight than anything he undergoes all day long, or all week long, or all month long.

This also means that the youthfulness perception, or the perception of a lack of youthfulness, a man has of his intimate female partner during half an hour of sexual intercourse can easily offset the impression a man has of the
youthfulness of his female partner during two weeks of living together. This explains why men often lose sexual interest in their wives after they have given birth. The facial features of a woman change little within 12 months, even if she has given birth within this time frame.

But for her genitals, the difference is huge. During giving birth, her vaginal canal has been overstretched, and it will just not return to its previous small dimension. Not by itself, anyway.

Of course, there are options for medical intervention. Vaginal canal reduction surgery is one option. The other one is pharmacological.

Not that Western pharmaceutical multinationals would have discovered the market yet. And probably they won't get involved, because of the availability of herbal solutions that cannot be patented.

In much of Southeast Asia, women who have given birth use daun sirih and kayu rapat to cause a shrinkage of the birth canal. Actually, the according effect is so clear that both the Malay and Indonesian common names of one of these plants, kayu rapat, refers to the effect it has on the vagina.

'Kayu' is the Indonesian word for wood, and 'rapat' means tight. 'Kayu rapat' thus literally translate as tightness wood, because of its most common application, to effect vaginal tightness.

Unfortunately, other parts of the world never have had the botanical biodiversity to have traditional medicines with comparable applications. But I can predict that a world market will develop for kayu rapat and daun sirih, just as a world market has developed for condoms, or contraceptive pills, or male sexual aides such as Viagra and tongkat ali.

Furthermore, because the effects of daun sirih and kayu rapat cannot be repeated by synthetic copies, just as the taste of coffee cannot be matched by chemical flavors, it is predictable that the prices of daun sirih and kayu rapat will further rise on the world market.

This will likely create a new class society: on the one side are rich women, or the women of rich countries, who can afford kayu rapat and daun sirih, and thus enhance their capability to sexually entice their husbands. And on the other side are poor women, or women of poor countries, who, after having given birth, quite possibly numerous times, and who are made fun of, and deserted, by their husbands because of their monster holes.

Ironically, these poorer women who are further disadvantaged may well be living in some of the countries that are exporting kayu rapat and daun sirih to the rest of the world, primarily Indonesia.

The current Indonesian government may be unlikely to impose an export ban on kayu rapat and daun sirih. But if a subsequent Indonesian government should be less embracing globalization, export restrictions could be imposed, just as they had been in place for decades on gloves.

Habitat:
Grows wild in lowland forests on samapai 1200 asl.

Description of plant:
Shrubs creeper, the stem twisted, woody, hairy, brown. Leaf tunggaal, Lancet, face, base and tapered leaves, reddish-green young leaves after the old green. Inflorescence panicle shape, the crown funnel shape, color white. Fruit pods. Seeds rounded, blackish brown color.

Chemical constituents:
  • Tanin
  • Acid protokatekol
Purpose:
  1. Asthma.
  2. Cough.
  3. Irregular menstruation.
  4. Arouse appetite.
  5. Digestion is not good.
  6. Gastritis.
  7. Sore throat.
  8. Hemorrhoids.
  9. Ulcers
  10. Hair loss
  11. Rheumatism - Muscle pain
  12. Softener skin