Clef Des Champs Adaptogen Eleuthero Tincture (Organic) - 50ml

ELEUTHERO

Eleuthero (Siberian Ginseng) has the properties of an adaptogen. Which means that it enhances a person's resistance to environmental stress. It also provides protection against colds and the flu and is a diuretic and overall therapeutic tonic, stimulating the immune system and appetite for food. Eleuthero is useful in treating a number of conditions: rheumatic heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, craniocerebral trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, pyelonephritis, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, influenza, neuroses, insomnia, and diabetes. In addition, this herb heightens a person's capacity for work, helps to bring high and low blood pressure to normal levels, enhances athletic performance, relieves the toxic stress of chemotherapy, and provides for the symptomatic treatment of herpes simplex type II infections.

What Is Ginseng?

The ginsengs are adaptogenic herbs, meaning that they help people during stressful times and recovery from illness and fatigue. The ginsenosides and eleuthrosides are the active medicinal components of the ginsengs. Studies show that they have a structure that is similar to the steroid hormones and act through the brain. The end result is stimulation of the adrenal gland and activation of the body's energy reserves. This response keeps us safe, allowing us to fight for survival, or to flee from dangerous situations. It also increases heart rate; blood pressure and blood flow to the brain, muscles, lungs and heart. Thus Ginseng leads to increased energy, mental performance and performance in physical tasks like athletics. This response can deplete the body after a while so ginseng also contains substances that stimulate cell replication, protein synthesis, immune functioning and blood sugar regulation. All of these properties nourish the body and aid in recovery from times of high activity, illness and stress. The ginsengs are recommended by natural health practitioners for a variety of needs including athletic performance, energy, recovery from illness or surgery, stress, cell support, impotence, low libido and frequent colds and flus

Mode Of Action

The adaptogen properties of eleuthero act on the hypothalamuspituitary-adrenal axis and help the organism resist prolonged stress and a heavy work load. It helps regulate the entire hormonal system and protects the adrenal cortex. It reduces the swelling of the adrenal glands brought on by stress. A performance tonic,
eleuthero facilitates physical effort, increases endurance, reduces recovery time after effort and increases the metabolism of oxygen in the tissues and organs. Less stimulating than Panax Ginseng, it has a more general effect on immunity and greater effect on endurance than Panax.

Eleuthero is also used for exhaustion, general weakness, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritability, insomnia and symptoms of depression. As well as increasing concentration and mental acuity and easing the learning process, it has a mild calming effect on the central nervous system. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is a preventive
medicine, a general tonic that strengthens the Chi and increases vitality. 

The polysaccharides in E. senticosus strengthen the immune system and increase the organism’s general resistance to infections by stimulating the production of NK cells and T-cells. Among other things, it reduces the severity, the duration and the frequency of Herpes simplex eruptions. It increases non-specific immunity in chemotherapy patients. It reduces the side-effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. It is used during recovery to increase the body’s capacity to heal and a feeling of well-being. Some of it's constituents have anti-tumoral, antiproliferation and anti-oxidant effects.

Eleuthero normalizes blood-sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and it protects the cardiovascular system, making it a particularly interesting herb in the case of metabolic syndrome. It increases lung capacity in individuals with chronic bronchitis and other pulmonary afflictions. In the digestive system, it helps reduce chronic diarrhea and diarrhea after taking antibiotics andit is a liver protector. The main constituents of eleuthero are eleutherosides (A, B, B1, C, D, E), triterpenoids saponins (protoprimulagenin A glycosides), glycans (eleutherans A, B, C, D, E, F and G), phenylpropionates (syringin, caffeic acid), lignans (sesamin), coumarins and vitamins
(beta-carotene).

Helpful Associations

Rhodiola tincture for concentration difficulties.
Skullcap tincture or infusion for anxiety.
Green Oatstraw infusion for nervous system troubles.
Resis Tea capsules or infusion for weak immunity & convalescence.
Nettle infusion for fatigue.

Uses

Nervous system: chronic fatigue, weakness, exhaustion, irritability, weak concentration, mental fatigue.
Digestive system: diarrhea after antibiotics, chronic diarrhea.
Other: physical performance and endurance, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary affections, Herpes simplex, side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, metabolic syndrome.

History

Eleuthero has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 2000 years to increase longevity, improve general health, sustain appetite and help memory. It is only in the middle of the 20th Century that general interest for the medicinal virtues of eleuthero appeared, when researchers saw it as a substitute for Panax ginseng which is more costly and hard to find. Since the 1950’s, Russian research has demonstrated the potential of eleuthero as an adaptogen and resulted in its inclusion in the Soviet pharmacopeia. It was included in the Russian space program in 1977.