Himalaya Drug Co. started in 1930 out of Burma creating and distributing ayurvedic herbal medicine. They launched the first anti-hypertensive drug derived from the plant Rauwolfia (weird name). I know very little of ayurvedic plant medicine. But apparently this plant has been traditionally used to treat anxiety, psychosis, schizophrenia, insomnia and epilepsy. A serious plant drug. Their website is worth checking out because they generally explain each of the plant medicines used in their products.
I wrote down the ingredients of that pill being sold in PCC because I wanted to check out their situations online. The herbal constituents are: Chicory (seed), andrographis, grape (fruit), date palm (fruit), phyllanthus, amla. Sounds tasty.
Chicory I am familiar with as a coffee substitute and for it's beautiful pastel blue/purple flowers. The seeds are said to be a carminative (preventing or expelling gas). Apparently chicory is an acclaimed hepatoprotector (preventing damage to the liver). Studies to demonstrate this have been done on adult albino rats. Chicory can be found along the Burke Gilman Bike Trail! Though in less abundance than the Himalayan Blackberry.
If you are drinking a lot of alcohol I guess you want to consume those hepatoprotectors. Others include almond and castor oils, burdock, astragalus, tumeric, curry, gotu kola, brassica plants (eat your leafy greens), reishi mushroom, licorice, holy basil, and so on. THE POWER PLANTS! Think I'd rather stick to drinking less though.
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