More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of salep for these uses.

As a result, it is illegal to export true salep.

At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for salep.

The dried and ground tuber gives a fine white powder, called salep.

The appropriate dose of salep depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions.

The region is best known for its production of salep, a flour made from dried orchid tubers.

Salep contains a mucus-like substance that might help soothe the digestive tract.

It was used like salop or salep (a working class drink popular before the introduction of tea or coffee).

The similarity in appearance to testes naturally accounts for salep being considered an aphrodisiac.

People take salep for digestion problems including heartburn, gas (flatulence), and indigestion.

The word salep can also mean any beverage made with the salep flour.

In the German Pharmacopoeia, a mucilage of salep appears as an official preparation.

Initially, it was made from salep - a flour made from orchid roots which thickened the drink.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Not enough is known about the use of salep during pregnancy and breast-feeding.

A flour called salep or sachlav is made of the ground tubers of this or some other species of orchids.

The popularity of salepli dondurma has caused a decline of wild orchids in the region and led to a ban on exports of salep.

Of salep, Paracelsus, the famous toxicologist, wrote: "Behold the Satyrion root, is it not formed like the male privy parts?

Other desserts are also made from salep flour, including salep pudding and salep ice cream.

Orchis militaris contains the nutritious polysaccharide glucomannan, and is one of the original species of orchid whose ground-up roots are used to make the drink salep.

The Kahramanmaraş region is known for maraş dondurması, a variety which contains distinctly more salep than usual; tough and sticky, it is sometimes eaten with a knife and fork.

A warm drink made from sweetened milk with salep garnished with walnuts, coconut flakes and cinnamon, is known as sahlab and is primarily served during the winter season.

The name salep has been claimed to come from the Arabic expression ḥasyu al-tha'lab, "fox testicles", but it appears more likely the name comes directly from the Arabic name saḥlab.

Popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in England, its preparation required that the salep powder be added to water until thickened whereupon it would be sweetened, then flavored with orange flower or rose water.

There are also several types of ice creams based salep powder or Cornstarch with Rose water such as Dondurma (Turkish gum ice cream), dried fruit ice cream, ice cream rose petals.

Cuckoo Flower, Levant Salep, Orchid, Orchis morio, Sahlep, Salep Orchid, Saloop, Satyrion.