Avena Botanicals Spring and Fall Tonic support the liver, kidneys, and lymphatics in the body's normal cleansing process. Encourages healthy elimination and assimilation.*
A perfect ally during the transitional seasons of the year, spring and fall, this tonic blends 4 of our most common, beloved, and potent Northeastern "weeds" together to create a balancing and supportive blend. Spring & Fall Tonic works to promote healthy function of the eliminatory and assimilative processes and organs of the body, namely the kidneys, liver, bowel, skin, and lymphatics. These herbs support overall wellness, immune function, and digestive function.
Spring & Fall Tonic helps keep you in step with the seasonal wheel's rhythms, gifts, and challenges, preparing you to make the most of all that summer and winter offer.
Garden Notes: Our gardens have several beautiful lush beds of Nettle growing, especially in areas where the Nettle can easily spread. We enjoy making a fresh tincture, fresh tea, and fresh juice with Nettle; we dry it for winter teas and add it into our own personal nutrient-dense organic apple cider vinegar (used by staff). Yellow Dock reseeds in a few different places in our gardens. We enjoy digging the roots in spring and fall. And our friends in Vermont organically grow the best Burdock roots ever! In springtime, we love digging fresh Dandelion roots and leaves; we tincture them fresh and also add the leaves into fresh juice and organic apple cider vinegar.
Taste / Energetics: bitter, sweet, clearing, soothing, nourishing, revitalizing.
Actions: bitter, nutritive, lymphatic, alterative, aperient, kidney tonic, liver tonic, prebiotic.
When to reach for it: During the transitional seasons of spring and autumn -- take 1-2 times per day for 4-8 weeks. To promote health after exposure to mild environmental or internal toxins of some kind. During travel for strength and digestive regularity. When seeking additional support for tonifying the immune, lymphatic, digestive, renal, and hepatic systems. When seeking extra support for the elimination of wastes and the assimilation of nutrients. If you are feeling nervous about winter's cold or summer's heat, this tonic helps regulate the body's thermal processes and brings more ease to the body during seasonal transitions.
Ingredients: Fresh Burdock (Arctium lappa) root, Fresh Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) leaf, flower, & root, Fresh Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) leaf, Fresh Yellow Dock (Rumex crispus) root, Spring Water, Grain Alcohol (alcohol 95% by volume, water)^, Vegetable Glycerin^.
Suggested Use: Add 20 drops (1ml) to 1 ounce of water 3 times/day after meals for 4 weeks in the spring and fall, 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 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.
