Adaptogenic herbs make it easier for your body to adapt to stress. They help your body to build or mend its own natural balance so that it can handle stress and improve your health. Radiant Wonder Formulas are full of adaptogenic herbs, making them powerful support for the immune system, reproductive system, central nervous system, literally every energetic system in the body.
What is an Adaptogen?
Adaptogens are herbs that have the ability to help the body deal with stress and lower cortisol. An adaptogen is a substance (a chemical compound) which helps your body to adapt to changes in its environment.
What are Adaptogenic Herbs?
Thousands of herbs have been classified but less than twenty-five have made it into the elite Category of Adaptogenic Herbs.
Adaptogenic herbs make it easier for your body to adapt to stress. They help your body to build or mend its own natural balance so that it can handle stress and improve your health.
The traditional use for these healing herbs is not to treat disease but to bring such vitality to the body that it is able to resist disease.
Herbs for Less Stress
Adaptogenic herbs are being researched everywhere. It seems regular consumption of these unique herbs bring to your body a new level of strength and flexibility. That combination dramatically helps you adapt to changing, stress inducing, circumstances in your life.
If you have a wide range of stress in your life (and who doesn’t nowadays?) we would highly recommend that you try taking Adaptogenic herbs – ”herbs for stress.”
Mind, Body and Spirit
As you continue to use Adaptogenic Supplements, you will notice many positive changes. As your body becomes healthier, so does your psyche. Adaptogenic herbs are good for your mind body and soul.
Your emotions will become more balanced and flexible.
Your mind will become clearer and calmer.
Your spirit will manifest love and compassion.
Just One Example…
So, for example, if you have a low level of cortisol, adaptogens can help to increase it and if it’s too high, they can help to lower it.
That may not sound too impressive but it really is. To see why it’s impressive, let’s take a look at how cortisol can affect you…
What is Cortisol?
It’s a steroid hormone which your body makes in your adrenal glands. It is then released into your blood stream which carries it all around your body.
Almost every one of your cells is able to accept cortisol which then causes different actions – depending on the job of that particular cell.
What Does Cortisol Do?
Cortisol is best known for being involved in your body’s “fight-or-flight” response. When you’re faced with a situation where you have to think on your feet and stay and confront or move away quickly, your body pauses any processes that aren’t crucial for keeping you alive and triggers a massive boost in cortisol and epinephrine (aka adrenalin) to give you the huge energy rush that’s immediately required.
It’s all about bringing your body back into the naturally balanced state where it is able to function efficiently so that you can enjoy good health and achieve your full potential.
How Do Adaptogenic Herbs Adapt?
Your body is constantly regulating itself which is amazing. What is even more amazing is that your body is able to regulate itself in more than one way.
For example, if it is hot, your body sweats to release heat and cool itself down and If it’s cold, your body is able to generate more heat to keep itself warm. All man-made drugs and most herbs can trigger an action in your body – but they can only trigger that single action.
Scientists now believe that Adaptogenic herbs can help your body’s ability to react in more than one way – depending on what the outside influences are.
For example, Reishi Mushroom can help your body to compensate for auto-immune problems (such as allergies and rheumatoid arthritis). It can also help your body to defend itself against outside pathogens (such as virus and bacteria).
Are Adaptogenic Herbs Safe?
Adaptogenic Herbs can be taken safely long-term. In fact, if you use these herbs consistently, over time their effects accumulate and become even more effective. They build resilience and strength into your immune system. Adaptogenic herbs also contain high levels of phytonutrients and powerful antioxidants – which are both keys to a long and vital life. They are the safest herbs in the herbal kingdom.
Radiant Wonder Herbs are Triple Tested
The Best Way to Take Adaptogenic Herbs
Raw isn’t always best in Chinese Medicine…
Some raw herbs can be broken down by your body’s digestive system. However, many contain a high percentage of indigestible material. For instance, Ginseng contains 20% or less of active constituents and 80% or more of indigestible material.
Raw Ginseng is very hard for the digestive system to break down. If you ate raw ginseng, the active ingredients would probably pass straight through your body before it had a chance to absorb any of them.
For thousands of years, Master herbalists cooked their herbs, and took then drank the cooked water as a tea.
They did not know anything about “bioavailability” – but they did know that they got superior results from preparing their herbs in this way.
Standardized Extracts vs Full-Spectrum Extracts
A Standardized Extract is one that extracts only what has been determined with current research to be the active ingredient in the complex phytochemical combination called a plant. The idea that it might be better to consume the whole plant and not just the active ingredient is a concept foreign to Western Medicine because Western Medicine deals with single chemicals.
Radiant Wonder herbs are Full-Spectrum Extracts. With our herbal formulas you have the full nutrition of the whole plant, not just one active ingredient. The body for millions of years has been used to taking in the complex chemicals of foods. Herbs are foods, just super foods. We believe the whole plant, the full spectrum, is a superior way to ingest your formulas.
Also, science is not always fully aware of what is of value in the herb and what is not. The standardized extract of Gingko Biloba is missing new active ingredients that have since been discovered.
An interesting piece of history: Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the value of Vitamin C wrote a paper later presenting something else he had observed: the human body was able to absorb more Vitamin C from an orange than from a pill. This fact was lost in the profitable rush to sell Vitamin C.
Top Adaptogenic Herbs used in Radiant Wonder Herbal Formulas
American Ginseng
A native American plant, treasured by Asians, exported by the trader, Daniel Boone.
American Ginseng provides energy, adaptability and increased awareness and enhances endurance.
What is American Ginseng good for?
- Adrenal support
- Energy
- Headaches
- Hot flashes
- Irritability
- Recovery from deep fatigue
Astragalus
Astragalus root increases energy which relieves numbness and pain.
Protects the body against disease Promotes the discharge of pus and helps with the healing of fleshy wounds.
Used clinically for hundreds of years for diabetes.
Astragalus is included in these Radiant Wonder products:
Cordyceps
Cordyceps can restore the deep energy that has been used in adapting to stress, aging or chronic illness.
In a number of Chinese clinical studies, primarily in older patients complaining of fatigue, when taking Cordyceps, the same patients reported significant improvements in energy levels, a greater ability to tolerate cold temperatures, enhanced memory and cognitive capacity and renewed sex drive.
Cordyceps is included in five Radiant Wonder products:
Gingko Biloba
Available scientific evidence supports ginkgo for managing dementia, anxiety, schizophrenia, and cerebral insufficiency (insufficient blood flow to brain).
Note: Although ginkgo is generally well tolerated, it should be used cautiously in people with clotting disorders or taking blood thinners, or prior to some surgical or dental procedures, due to reports of bleeding.
Gingko Biloba is included in one Radiant Wonder product:
Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Jiaogulan)
Wonderful safe, non stimulant energy tonic (takes about 2 weeks to start feeling the shift).
Research now supports Gynostemma’s ability to reduce total cholesterol and increase the “good” high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
What else is Gynostemma good for?
- Digestion
- Chronic bronchitis
- Chronic gastritis
- Constipation
- Cough
- Energy
- Inflammation
- Insomnia
- Insulin resistance
- Obesity
- Pain
- Stamina
- Stress
- Swelling
Ho Shou Wu
Ho Shou Wu Root, also known as Polygonum, is widely considered the greatest rejuvenating herb in the world.
The Charming Legend of Ho Shou Wu
Ho Shou Wu is one of the main kidney restoratives in Chinese herbology.
Ho Shou Wu means “Ho’s black hair”
Legend has it that Ho, an aging, lonely hermit, was walking through a forest when he saw an entwined vine that resembled a couple embracing.
He harvested the root, cooked it, and made it into tea.
When he drank the tea, his hair turned from snow white to the black hair of his youth.
He went on to marry and supposedly fathered many children.
They both lived to over 100 years old, and the herb has been called Ho’s black hair ever since.
What is Ho Shou Wu good for?
- Helps to delay memory issues
- Increases sexual fluids
- Maybe the top blood-building herb, an excellent source of iron
- Nourishes high-quality sperm and eggs
- Insomnia
- Rich in Zinc
- Lower back and knee support
- Nourishes the hair and nails
- Fuller hair and, if not Caucasian, may restore color
- Rejuvenating herbs: needed throughout a lifetime
Ho Shou Wu is included in these Radiant Wonder products:
Licorice
Licorice root has more detoxifying agents than any other substance in the world. It can rid the body of more than 600 toxins without any detrimental side effects. It also helps to regulate blood sugar levels, nourish the adrenal glands, and build muscle. It is a harmonizing herb, helping the diverse ingredients in various herbal formulas. It increases vital energy and strengthens digestive and metabolic functions. It also aids the assimilation of nutrients.
NOTE:
You may have read that according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), previously known as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), large quantities of licorice root may:
– Increase blood pressure, salt, and water retention
– Affects cortisol levels in the body
– When taken with diuretics, it causes dangerously low potassium levels.
To get any of those reactions, you would need to eat more than 57g (two ounces) of black liquorice a day for at least two weeks.
There is a tiny amount of licorice in almost all Chinese formulas – 1%. Its action is to harmonize all the herbs in the formula.
We only have one formula on our lists with more than 1% licorice, yet the actual value is still far below dangerous levels:
- Peony and Licorice
An excellent muscle relaxant; also used for severe period pain
Maca
What is Maca good for?
- Anemia
- Athletic stamina
- Immune system
- Chronic fatigue
- Depression
- Enhancing energy
- Improving fertility
- Memory
- Supports hormonal balance for both sexes
- Supports strong male sexual function
- Symptoms of menopause
Maitake
What can Maitake Mushrooms help with?
- Strengthening the immune system
- Adapogenic response
- Chronic low energy
- Hay fever
- Cardiovascular support
- Weight loss or control
Rehmannia Glutinosa
Rehmannia is a rich blood builder and will be present in many fertility foundation formulas.
What is Rehmannia good for?
- Blood building
- Sexual fluids
- The development of sperm and eggs
- Insulin resistance
- Adrenal support
- Stamina
- Stronger bones
Rhodiola
What is Rhodiola Root good for?
- Aging
- Altitude sickness
- Lifting mood
- Constant Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Hearing loss
- Cholesterol balance
- Improving athletic performance
- Increasing energy
- Libido
Schizandra
The beauty enhancing herb, Schizandra helps to restore proper water metabolism to the cells, detoxifies the liver and lungs and builds lung energy. It increases the available energy to the reproductive system, builds sexual fluids and moistens the skin.
What is Schizandra good for?
- Moist and supple skin
- Exercise Performance
- Liver issues
- Cardiovascular support
- Mental performance
- Immune support
- Nearsightedness
- Lung strength
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Why do you recommend Formulas?
There is great value in time-tested herbal formulas. Certain combinations of herbs have been found to have actions that are greater and more balanced than the actions of the individual herbs alone.
Because of the deep understanding in Chinese Medicine not just of each herb, but also their interactions, if you are taking a formula created with Traditional Chinese Medicine you are getting herbal teamwork at its finest. Herbs are categorized by their actions (energetics) in the body, selected from the various categories and combined using precise rules.
The Primary Action Herbs are the building blocks of the formula. They determine the primary action and may target a specific organ or regulatory function. This is usually the first 3-4 herbs in the formula.
The Enhancers increase the potency of the formula by complementing the energetics of the Primary Action Herbs.
Directors are the herbs that direct the formula’s action to where it is supposed to go. Balancing herbs in the formula eliminates undesirable side effects by counteracting certain actions of other herbs.
