Viagra (sildenafil)
Explore Viagra, the original sildenafil brand, with tablet and film presentations, listed strengths, company information and links to ingredient guidance.
- Active ingredient
- Sildenafil
- Form
- Film-coated tablets; orodispersible tablet; orodispersible film
- EU authorization holder
- Upjohn EESV
Viagra is a reference brand of sildenafil for erectile dysfunction. The EU record identifies Upjohn EESV as marketing authorization holder and distinguishes film-coated tablets, an orodispersible tablet and an orodispersible film. The company and batch-release details above describe that market record; packaging and company roles can differ elsewhere.
The form belongs in the comparison
The EU product information lists 25, 50 and 100 mg film-coated tablets, plus specific 50 mg dissolving presentations. A pack name and a blue-pill photograph do not tell you which presentation was supplied. A dissolving formulation should be checked against its own instructions rather than assumed to act faster or be interchangeable with every tablet.
“Generic Viagra” normally means another sildenafil medicine. It does not mean a second product made by the Viagra authorization holder. Compare the exact ingredient, form, strength and local product record; a regulated generic and a seller’s loosely named product are different identity questions.
Timing and duration without the marketing shortcut
For ordinary film-coated tablets, food can delay absorption. Sexual stimulation is required. Sildenafil’s roughly four-hour half-life describes blood concentrations, and the label reports an erection response to stimulation observed four to five hours after dosing in a study. These findings do not promise a continuous erection or a fixed period of successful intercourse. The 36-hour treatment-window description is associated with tadalafil, not standard Viagra information.
If an attempt is disappointing, a review of timing, food, the prescribed formulation and tolerability is more useful than switching brands purely on a seller’s duration claim. The sildenafil article explains the research behind that review.
What the reference record cannot establish
The EU authorization does not authenticate a particular pack, establish a seller’s credentials or prove another country’s supply rules. Nitrates and riociguat are incompatible with sildenafil; cardiovascular suitability and other medicines still require assessment. Read the safety guide and the product leaflet for the supplied medicine.
Related store ranges and generics: AU Chemist erectile dysfunction range and generic sildenafil at PharmStock. The buying guide lists the checks to make before ordering.
Product record
- Company
- Upjohn EESV (EU marketing authorization holder)
- Manufacturing
- Fareva Amboise, France, or Mylan Hungary Kft., Hungary, for the tablet presentations; LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG, Germany, for the orodispersible film. These are batch-release manufacturers in Annex II; see the leaflet for the supplied batch.
- Strengths
- 25, 50, 100 mg film-coated; 50 mg orodispersible; 50 mg orodispersible film
- Jurisdiction checked
- European Union
- Record reference
- EMEA/H/C/000202
- Treatment area
- Erectile dysfunction (ED)
- Record reviewed
- 4 October 2026; source retrieval dates are retained with the evidence
These records identify a named product and market. They do not confirm stock, authenticate a particular pack, or establish authorization in another country.
About sildenafil
Sildenafil supports the erection response to stimulation. Food can delay absorption of ordinary film-coated tablets; blood half-life is not a guaranteed response window. Timed follow-up can help explain an apparent nonresponse.
Using a PDE5 inhibitor safely
Never take a PDE5 inhibitor with nitrates, recreational nitrites (“poppers”) or riociguat, and do not combine two ED medicines. Seek urgent medical help for chest pain, an erection lasting more than four hours, or sudden loss of vision or hearing.
Common side effects include headache, flushing, indigestion and a blocked nose.
Sources
2 sources
Checked .
- Viagra assessment and authorization record — European Medicines Agency
- Viagra product information — European Medicines Agency
Image credits
- Blue Viagra tablet with Pfizer imprint — Tim Reckmann. CC BY-SA 3.0. WebP conversion; resized where larger than 1200 pixels; original framing retained.
