Avena Botanicals Burdock is a deeply grounding herb that supports digestion, assimilation, and elimination. Promotes healthy skin and vibrancy of liver and lymphatic function.*
Burdock has a strong taproot that grows straight down into the soil with confidence and offers us this same sense of grounding and strength. In Japan and in other parts of the world, Burdock is enjoyed as a traditional food. The nutritive flavor is sweet, mild, and mildly bitter.
Burdock root is truly dynamic in that it both nourishes and helps clear metabolic waste from the body and is considered to be alterative. This means that Burdock supports the elimination pathways of the body by ensuring healthy liver, kidney, bowel, and lymphatic function and encouraging strong digestion and assimilation of nutrients.
Chock full of prebiotics, Burdock root nourishes and feeds the beneficial gut flora in the digestive tract and acts as a mild bitter tonic. As a result, this incredible and humble herb promotes healthy, clear skin. Burdock is very supportive during seasonal transitions, especially in fall and spring, and during life transitions such as post-partum, menopause, changing jobs, when moving or traveling, or when life situations unground you.
Taste / Energetics: sweet, mildly bitter, earthy, grounding, clearing, nutritive, soothing.
Actions: alterative, lymphatic, mildly bitter, prebiotic, kidney tonic, nutritive, digestive tonic.
When to reach for it: As a way to ground, center, and connect with self and others. As part of a skincare routine. For daily digestive support. To enhance an intentional seasonal transition diet or Ayurvedic cleanse. To support a healthy convalescence. As a tonic to support general strength, vitality, and energy. Daily to support a healthy lymphatic system.
About Burdock Root: Burdock root is truly a remarkable herb, supportive during seasonal transitions, especially in fall and spring. This deeply rooted herb is grown on Avena’s biodynamic farm. Harvested in the fall of the plant's first year.
Botanical Name: Arctium lappa
Part Used: Fresh root
Ingredients: Certified Organic Burdock Root, Certified Organic Pure Grain Alcohol, Springwater
Suggested Use: Add 10-20 drops (.5-1ml) of water to 1 ounce of water 1-3 times/day or as directed by your healthcare provider.
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.
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