Traditional Use: anti anxiety and aphrodisiac and stress relieving properties*

Herb Pharm prepare their Passionflower Extract from the flowering tips of Passiflora incarnata vines which are Certified Organically Grown without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.  To assure optimal extraction of Passionflower's bioactive compounds, they hand-harvested only the young, tender flowering tips of the vines, which are shade-dried and then taken directly to their laboratory and thoroughly extracted.  Herb Pharm's Passionflower is never fumigated irradiated.

What is Passionflower?
Passionflower or Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata) is a plant native to North America, found mostly in the Midwest and Southeast. Passionflower has been used as folk remedy to treat anxiety. Studies show extracts of passion flower have anti anxiety and aphrodisiac properties.

Passionflower Benefits
lists long as this herb is a great stress buster. Commonly known as maypop, these are dark colored flowers which are used as medicinal products. The herb is generally taken to combat insomnia, stress and anxiety, blood circulatory issues and weight gain. Completely non-addictive, passiflora is a highly recommendable herb in case you are having disturbed nights, panic and restlessness.

More Benefits and Uses of the Passion Flower:

• Traditionally, passion flower has been used for its sedative effect. Due to this effect it has been used as a herbal sleep aid and is considered a good herb to relieve anxiety.
• Historically, it was also used to treat gastrointestinal spasms.
• Passion flower has a hypotensive effect (lowers blood pressure) and also relieves tachycardia (fast heart rate.)
• The anti-spasmodic effect makes this herb useful in treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, seizures, and hysteria.
• This herb has also been used to treat nerve pain and shingles.
• Asthma, especially with a high level of spasmodic activity, responds well to passion flower use.
• It can be combined with valerian, hops, and Jamaican dogwood for an effective herbal insomnia treatment.
• Passion flower may also have a mild aphrodisiac effect.
• Passion flower has been used to treat some of the symptoms accociated with ADHD (ADD).

Directions: Shake Well Before Using. Two to four times per day take 30 to 40 drops in a little water.

Ingredients: Certified organic grain alcohol, distilled water & Passionflower extractives.

More About Herb Pharm
Herbal medicines are only as effective as the quality of the herbs from which they are made. When Ed Smith and Sara Katz founded Herb Pharm in 1979 they understood as herbalists this basic principle and have never compromised in their efforts to provide the highest quality, most effective whole-herb healthcare products possible. They know that producing effective herbal extracts that enable people to affect positive changes in the quality of their health is based on diligent study and understanding of traditional herbal medicine, as well as modern herbal sciences. At Herb Pharm they grow most of the herbs on the “Pharm Farm” – their certified organic farm located in a rural valley of the Siskiyou Mountains in southern Oregon. As organic farmers, they never use synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, nor do they use genetically modified seeds. Instead, employing fundamental, time-honored sustainable agriculture techniques including crop rotation, cover cropping, natural weed control such as hand weeding and flame weeding, and composting to condition the soil. Each year, our farm is inspected and certified as organic by Oregon Tilth.