Kamagra oral jelly and tablets: the risks UK patients should know
Reviewed by the My London Pharmacy clinical team
·21 October 2026
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Quick answer
Kamagra is sildenafil, the medicine in Viagra, made in India by Ajanta Pharma and sold as 100 mg tablets and fruit-flavoured oral jelly. It holds no UK licence and cannot legally be sold here, because sildenafil is prescription-only apart from Viagra Connect 50 mg. Nobody in the UK has checked what the sachets and tablets contain. Licensed sildenafil tablets from a registered UK pharmacy are the safe route to the same medicine.
What Kamagra is
Kamagra is the best-known name among the unlicensed erectile dysfunction products sold online to UK men. It is a brand owned by Ajanta Pharma of Mumbai and is marketed as containing sildenafil citrate, the same active ingredient as Viagra and licensed UK sildenafil. Kamagra is manufactured for markets where it has a local registration. It has never been approved by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or the European Medicines Agency.
A UK licence means an inspected factory, batch testing against a specification, an assessed formulation and ongoing monitoring of side effects. Kamagra sits outside all of that. Whatever a website says about it being the same as Viagra, in UK law it is an unlicensed prescription medicine from an unregulated source.
Tablets, oral jelly and Super Kamagra
The range has grown well beyond a single tablet. Kamagra 100 mg tablets, sometimes sold as Kamagra Gold, are stated to contain 100 mg sildenafil, which is the UK maximum dose rather than a typical starting dose. Kamagra oral jelly is a sachet of flavoured gel, again stated to contain 100 mg, sold in packs of seven flavours. Kamagra effervescent is a dissolvable tablet at the same strength. Super Kamagra combines 100 mg sildenafil with 60 mg dapoxetine, a prescription-only medicine for premature ejaculation, so that one unassessed tablet contains two prescription drugs with two sets of interactions and side effects.
Every product in the range is sold at the maximum sildenafil dose or above it in combination. There is no 25 mg or 50 mg Kamagra, because the range is built around marketing rather than dose titration.
Is Kamagra legal in the UK?
No. Sildenafil is a prescription-only medicine in the UK, with Viagra Connect 50 mg as the single pharmacy-supplied exception. Every other sildenafil product needs a prescription from a registered prescriber and a UK marketing authorisation, and Kamagra has neither. Websites shipping it to UK addresses commit offences under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, and the MHRA routinely seizes Kamagra in its enforcement operations and has prosecuted UK-based sellers.
Possessing Kamagra for your own use is not a crime, and sellers lean on that distinction to describe the product as legal. What it means in practice is that your medicine has passed through a supply chain that was unlawful at every step, with no manufacturer, pharmacist or regulator answerable to you if it harms you.
Why the jelly format is a particular concern
Kamagra oral jelly is promoted as faster-acting and easier to take than a tablet. There is no good evidence for the speed claim: sildenafil is absorbed from the gut in either form and usually starts to work in 30 to 60 minutes. What the jelly does change is dosing. A sachet is a full 100 mg, the UK ceiling. There is no lower-strength sachet, dividing a gel is guesswork, and a sweet flavoured format invites a second sachet in a way a tablet does not.
Gels are also harder to manufacture consistently than tablets. Even a genuine Ajanta sachet has not been checked in the UK for even distribution of the drug or accuracy of the stated dose, and a product this popular is copied constantly. A counterfeit sachet could contain anything.
What testing of seized products has shown
The MHRA has analysed large quantities of seized unlicensed erectile dysfunction medicines, Kamagra among them. The pattern is consistent: tablets with far more or far less active ingredient than stated, tablets containing a different drug, and tablets bulked out with talc, plaster, commercial paint or printer ink, in packaging that copies the original closely. The agency's long-running #FakeMeds campaign exists largely because of this market.
The danger is specific rather than vague. Sildenafil must never be combined with nitrate medicines such as GTN spray or isosorbide mononitrate, or with poppers, because blood pressure can collapse. It needs care with alpha blockers, riociguat, some antifungals, antibiotics and HIV medicines, and after a recent heart attack or stroke. A prescriber screens for all of this in minutes. A Kamagra site screens for nothing, and the man taking an unknown dose is often the one who most needed the check: older, on heart medication, and treating a symptom that may be the first sign of cardiovascular disease.
Kamagra compared with licensed sildenafil
| Kamagra | Licensed UK sildenafil | |
|---|---|---|
| Active ingredient | Sildenafil (stated, unverified) | Sildenafil (verified per batch) |
| UK licence | None | MHRA marketing authorisation |
| Legal to sell in the UK | No | Yes, with a prescription, or Viagra Connect 50 mg from a pharmacy |
| Doses | 100 mg only | 25, 50 and 100 mg, chosen for you |
| Clinical check | None | Prescriber consultation |
| Someone to contact about side effects | No | The pharmacy and the prescriber |
The price gap that once drove men towards Kamagra has largely closed. Viagra's UK patent expired in 2013 and licensed generic sildenafil is now one of the least expensive prescription medicines a pharmacy dispenses.
Safer options, and what to do if you have taken it
There are two legal routes to sildenafil in the UK. Licensed sildenafil tablets from My London Pharmacy are supplied after an online consultation reviewed by a UK prescriber, who chooses between 25, 50 and 100 mg and checks your medicines and history. Viagra Connect 50 mg can be supplied by a pharmacist without a prescription after a short conversation. If sildenafil does not suit you, licensed tadalafil offers a longer window of effect and our clinicians can discuss which fits best.
If you have taken Kamagra and develop chest pain, fainting, an erection lasting more than four hours or sudden loss of vision or hearing, seek urgent medical help and tell the clinician exactly what you took. If you have used it without problems, treat that as luck rather than proof of safety and book a consultation so that you can move to a product with a known dose and a known source.
Frequently asked questions
What is Kamagra?
Kamagra is a brand of sildenafil citrate made by Ajanta Pharma in India, sold as 100 mg tablets, flavoured oral jelly sachets, effervescent tablets and Super Kamagra, a sildenafil and dapoxetine combination. None of these products is licensed in the UK.
Is Kamagra legal in the UK?
No. Sildenafil is prescription-only in the UK apart from Viagra Connect 50 mg, and Kamagra has no UK marketing authorisation, so any site selling it to UK customers is breaking medicines law. Possessing it for personal use is not itself an offence, which is how sellers get away with calling it legal.
Is Kamagra oral jelly stronger or faster than tablets?
There is no good evidence that the jelly works faster. Sildenafil is absorbed from the gut in either form and takes 30 to 60 minutes. Each sachet is a full 100 mg, the UK maximum, which makes accurate or lower dosing impossible.
What is Super Kamagra?
A tablet combining 100 mg sildenafil with 60 mg dapoxetine, a prescription-only medicine for premature ejaculation. Taking two unassessed prescription drugs in one unlicensed tablet doubles the interactions and side effects nobody has checked.
What is the legal alternative to Kamagra?
Licensed sildenafil tablets from a GPhC-registered pharmacy after a prescriber consultation, or Viagra Connect 50 mg from a pharmacy without a prescription. Both contain verified sildenafil from an inspected supply chain.