Avena Botanicals Digestive Bitters are delicious and unique, utilizing herbs beloved through the ages to support healthy digestion. Use daily before or after meals to promote digestive wellness.*
Herbalists believe that health and vitality begin in the digestive tract. Bitter-tasting herbs are best taken before each meal to enhance digestive function, support healthy fat digestion, and support a balanced state of mind. Our Digestive Bitters combines bitter, sweet, and pungent herbs, creating a delicious and invigorating digestive tonic.
Digestive bitters encourage a healthy appetite and are best taken before each meal to enhance digestive function, although they can also be utilized to end a heavy meal to good effect. Regular and occasional use of bitters may improve fat metabolism while increasing the assimilation of nutrients in the body and supporting healthy bowel function. Digestive bitters may also support a balanced state of mind and a general sense of ease.
Taste / Energetics: bitter, aromatic, sweet, earthy, warming, soothing, grounding.
Actions: bitter, carminative, cholagogue, tonic, prebiotic.
When to reach for it: Before or after meals. When traveling. After a vacation. Around particularly heavy meals or when having foods that are difficult for you to digest. To support gut-brain balance. When seeking grounding. To settle a stomach. To support a healthy appetite. Every day!
Ingredients: Fresh Blessed Thistle (Cnicus benedictus) flowering tops^, Fresh Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) leaf^, Fresh Burdock (Arctium lappa) root^, Dried Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root^, Fresh Ginger (Zingiber officinale) root^, Water, Grain alcohol^ (Alcohol, water).
Suggested Use: Take 5-10 drops, mixed with a small amount of water, 10-15 minutes before each meal.
Safety Considerations: Pregnant women avoid.
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.