'Ease TH Up // a Stress and Anxiety Soother
A formula I rely on again in again in my clinical practice to calm stressed nervous systems, help mitigate flight/freight & fight responses, calm digestion, and improve circulation & heart resilience.
How Does it Work? Let's read into the ingredients:
• Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora): nervine, eases tension, aids nervous exhaustion, anti-spasmodic, aids insomnia, decreases nervous tics, aids jaw clenching and grinding.
• Tulsi (Ocimum x africanum): adaptogenic (adaptogens can help the body adapt to stress), antidepressant, re-regulates HPA axis and SAS (sympatho-adrenal system), prevents excess adrenalin and cortisol production, enhances cerebral circulation and memory.
• Milky Oat Tops (Avena sativa/A. ssp.): adrenal tonic (‘feeds the adrenals’), nutrative, and have an energizing and uplifting effect.
• Lavender (Lavandula ssp): Nervine, anti-depressant, calms restlessness and anxiety, reduces irritability and stress induced headaches, carminative (relieves gas), bitter: improves fat digestion/nausea/nervous stomach.
• Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) leaf/stem/flower/and berry: nutritive, cardiac trophorestorative (supports and strengthens specific tissues and organs to restore their normal function and vital capacity), heart tonic, reduces abnormal cardiac rhythms, improves coronary circulation, mildly reduces blood pressure, anti-inflammatory, preventative for heart disease, helps the physical and metaphoric heart stay resilient. (When circulation is improved, so extends the efficacy of that which is carried by the blood: nutrients, nourishment, energy, efficacy of medicines, etc.
(*Herbal Therapy and Suppliments, 2nd edition, Kuhn & Winston, 2008.)
‘Ease TF Up’ also tastes extremely pleasant, thanks to it’s sweet aromatics (via Tulsi & Lavender), as well as it’s glycerin extracts rounding off the edges of alcohol’s typical sharp intensity. I also find the taste also has an underlying depth to it from the hearty nutritive herbs (via wild oat & hawthorn).
Notes:
Hawthorn contraindications: Use cautiously with Beta Blockers, May potentiate action. Monitor if using anti-hypertensives/nitrates: may increase risk of hypo-tension. These statement have not been approved by the FDA and this product cannot legally claim to cure or address disease and health concerns.
Recommended Dosage: 2-3 dropperfuls, 3x daily. And/or 2-4 dropperfuls as needed in acute anxiety and panic states…before (the anxiety/panic aura), during or after they arise.
