Avena Botanicals Daily Balance is an elegant blend that supports calm, focused energy and a balanced response to stress in daily life.*
 
This formula brings three incredible plants together for daily support that soothes, strengthens, balances, and inspires. Daily Balance meets you where you are and is a perfect accompaniment to the demands and joys of the modern world. This blend supports a person in the dynamic and often complex aspects of navigating life by offering full-spectrum support that focuses on balance and support of the nervous and endocrine systems to promote overall well-being.
 
Daily Balance supports healthy energy and focus, encourages sound sleep, promotes healthy digestion, reinforces healthy adrenal glands, and supports a healthy immune system. This delicious formula fits easily in a bag, on the kitchen counter, or on a desktop. Deb keeps a bottle next to her gardening gloves.
 
Taste / Energetics: supportive, mildly sweet, mildly bitter, aromatic, nourishing, balancing.
 
Actions: adaptogen, nervine, adrenal tonic, nutritive, bitter, carminative.
 
When to reach for it: As a way to calm, center, and connect meaningfully with yourself and others, when you need extra physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual support navigating life, when you need an ally as you move through the modern world, during travel or major life events. During transitional times of life and rites of passage such as post-partum, aging, moving, going back to school, changing jobs, preparing to perform, restoring or creating new gardens, or crafting other forms of art.
 
Ingredients: Dried Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) root†, Fresh Milky Oat (Avena Sativa) seed, Fresh Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum) flowering tops†, Grain Alcohol^, Spring Water, Vegetable Glycerin^.
 
Plant Profiles:
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) - This well-loved adaptogenic root has been long-used in the Ayurvedic texts to support the nervous system, promote sound sleep, support liver health, nourish the tissues of the body, and promote strength, endurance, and vitality.
Milky Oats (Avena Sativa) - The same plant as the beloved breakfast cereal, and Avena's namesake, we hand-collect green, Milky Oat seeds each summer. The green milky seeds are nutritive, deeply nourishing, and balance the nervous system. Calming, soothing, and restorative.
Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum) - Holy Basil, also known as ‘Tulsi' is a deliciously aromatic herb that uplifts the spirit, opens the emotional heart, and helps reconnect a person to the sacredness of nature. Tulsi is adaptogenic in action and offers us support in navigating life with inspiration and profound intelligence.
 
Servings: 24 per 1 ounce bottle.
Serving Size: 25 drops (1.25ml).
Suggested Use: Add 25 drops (1.25ml) to 1 ounce of water 3 times/day or as directed by your healthcare provider.
Safety Considerations: Not for use in pregnancy or if you have an allergy to the nightshade plant family. If you have hyperthyroidism or diabetes, discuss with your healthcare provider and continue to monitor your blood sugar levels closely.
 
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 their 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.