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Pizzle pills

These pills are made from deer testicles and pizzles (penises). Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe they improve male sexual drive and vigour.

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Kerryn Pollock, Alternative health therapies – What are alternative health therapies?, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27938/pizzle-pills (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 12 April 2011.