If you were planning on heading to Chile’s famous Vina del Mar music festival, then you need to (a) finish packing and get going; and (b) forget about scoring any palwen for the event. According to local media, the tourists who have already descended on the event have cleaned tiny Valaprasio, Chile out of the herbal aphrodisiac.
Produced by members of the indigenous Mapuche tribe, the sexual energizer also known as “Mapuche viagra” reportedly “increases the desire, the libido and the sexual appetites of men and women.” This, at least, is the belief of Italo Diaz, a pharmacist at the Mapuche pharmacy. What’s in it? Got me. According to Diaz, “The compound is a Mapuche secret.”
Diaz is trying desperately to restock his shelves with palwen. He’s probably also considering raising the price — at least for the duration of the festival — to something more than $3.70 a bottle.
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