Avena Botanicals Bacopa helps to promote mental clarity and calms the mind.
A small and beautiful plant from the Ayurvedic tradition, Bacopa is also known as Brahmi in Sanskrit, after the god Brahma, the creator god associated with intellect, wisdom, and knowledge. Bacopa has been prized in India for thousands of years for its ability to rejuvenate the mind and the senses.
Bacopa strengthens the central and peripheral nervous systems of the body and clears the mind while increasing resilience to stress. This wonderful plant helps cultivate a subtle awareness of the world's beauty.
Garden Notes: We grow several large pots of Bacopa plants each summer outside near our beautiful tall Willow tree. We carefully gather this trailing succulent herb when there are lots of tiny white flowers and tincture it immediately, creating a vibrantly alive and potent tincture.
Taste / Energetics: bitter, slightly sweet, cooling, clearing, strengthening, rejuvenating.
Actions: nootropic, nervine tonic
When to reach for it: Later in life to support memory, focus, and general vitality. For support with projects, jobs, or times of serious study that require high levels of focus, concentration, and recall. When needing extra support with moods that can accompany nervousness, occasional tension, or menopause. To help calm and clear an overly busy or foggy mind, supporting your mind when you find yourself getting into the details, while also needing to hold the bigger picture. To keep beside your meditation altar, taking a few drops before meditating, before practicing a walking meditation or before yoga practice.
About Bacopa: This vine-like herb is traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine.
Ingredients: Certified Organic Bacopa (Bacopa Monnieri) (fresh leaves, stems, & flowers)
Other Ingredients: Certified Organic Pure Grain Alcohol, Spring Water
Suggested Use: Add 10-20 drops (.5-1ml) to 1 ounce of water 1-3 times/day or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Avena Botanicals values simplicity and the traditional ways of hand-crafting herbal products. They use simple tabletop tools instead of large, mechanized machines and they do not mass-manufacture.
This holistic and spiritually alive system of organic agriculture enlivens the soil, water, and plants along with the soul, spirit, and consciousness of humans. Biodynamic preparations and practices create herbal products that can benefit body, mind, and spirit and connect individuals to the source of their sustenance.
Since their inception in 1985, they have used no synthetic ingreidents, additives, or solvents of any kind in their herbal products or farming practices. Their on-site production facility only uses 100% biodegradable cleaning supplies.
Avena's products are produced on-site in their custom-built facility. You can take an herb walk through their gardens in the summer, while seeing smellIing baskets of herbs and flowers going into the facility, it doesn't get any more local than this.
Creating gentle, organic, high-quality herbal products that promote good health is their goal. They produce their products in small batches to ensure that their freshness and efficacy meet their high standards.
Avena's gardens are open to the public for a few select events each year. They are a peaceful sanctuary for people (and pollinators) to enjoy, learn in, and experience the gifts of nature. They host a handful of herb walks, classes, and retreats each summer, often accompanied by refreshing botanical sun tea.
These values remain constant in their thoughts, words, and actions. They care deeply about the health and well-being of the people and plants they serve and take extra care as they harvest the herbs and create products.
Despite the modern world's technological advances, many people around our planet remain unhappy and disconnected from nature. Avena's peaceful gardens, retreats, and hand-crafted herbal products assist people seeking to live in harmony with nature and with the spirit that connects all living beings.
They aim to create a working environment that embodies balance, health, and wellness. They ring a bell at noon for any staff who chooses to stop and meditate for 5-10 minutes. Their weekly staff meetings are held outdoors in summer and in a room overlooking the garden in winter. As a staff, they share yummy potlucks, birthday cakes, inspiring books, and garden walks.
Avena Botanicals is the first Demeter Certified Biodynamic farm in Maine. Biodynamic agriculture is a holistic and spiritually alive system of organic and ecological practices and philosophies based on the teachings of Dr. Rudolf Steiner. One of the core beliefs and practices of Biodynamic agriculture is to help heal the Earth.
Their hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's drying rooms and are immediately weighed and laid onto large screens. Most of these herbs are grown in Avena's three-acre gardens. They also collect a few herbs from nearby islands and meadows.
Over five hundred pounds of fresh, hand-gathered herbs come into Avena's apothecary annually and are thoughtfully prepared into herbal tinctures, elixirs, glycerites, and oils. Over 70% of these herbs come directly from Avena's Demeter Certified Biodynamic gardens. Their herbs are fresh, aromatic, sweet, bitter, pungent, and beautiful.
Avena's gardens have been purposefully planted with protective hedgerows and flowering plants that offer nectar and pollen to dozens of pollinators. Shimmering ruby-throated hummingbirds and various butterflies, honey bees and native bees fill our gardens with an array of colors, sounds, and personalities. The presence of pollinators fills hearts with joy and gratitude.
FDA Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
