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Lungs & Breath

Breath Formula

For breathing that is clear, open, and easy — a moistening, soothing blend for the channels of air.

Breath is built for one outcome: air that moves freely. When the throat feels dry, the chest feels tight, or each breath seems to catch on something, the body is telling you the channels of air have lost some of their ease. This formula was composed to bring that ease back — to moisten what has gone dry, soothe what has gone rough, and open what has gone narrow, so the simple act of breathing returns to what it should be: unnoticed, effortless, full.

Reach for it when the air is dry and the season is changing, when you talk or sing or teach all day and your voice and chest pay for it, or when smoke, dust, and city air leave the passages feeling raw. It is also a daily companion for anyone who simply wants their breathing to stay supple and open — the people who walk far, breathe deep, and want the body's first and most constant rhythm kept in good repair.

The herbs here are not a scattering of remedies thrown at the chest. They are a single, convergent gesture. One moistens the deep tissue of the airways; one opens and freshens the upper passages; one gathers and steadies the breath so it doesn't scatter; one coats, sweetens, and binds the whole blend into a soothing draught. Together they ask the respiratory system to do what it already knows how to do — only with more moisture, more room, and less friction.

This is structure and function, plainly: Breath nourishes the tissues and rhythms of respiration. It is food for the breathing body. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. We bring the system back toward ease; the body does the rest.

What it supports in the body

DigestiveLiverImmuneEndocrineNervous

The body systems the herbs in this formula are traditionally understood to nourish — resolved through our knowledge graph, where the classical record and modern biology are read together. Structure and function, never a claim of treatment.

Where measure & tradition agree

Nervous ×4Respiratory ×3Immune ×3Metabolic ×1Liver & Detox ×1Endocrine ×1

Systems this blend’s herbs are measured to engage in human binding data — and traditionally named for, independently. The number is how many herbs in the blend converge there. Two evidence systems arriving at the same place, separately, is our highest standard. See the research →

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$20.00/ 1 oz / 12 g

Small-batch. Dual-extracted where it matters. Made by hand.

How to take it

1/4 tsp (up to 1 tsp) of extract powder in hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily. Begin with light doses — our extracts are very potent.

Whole plant, never isolated

Concentrated extracts of the whole botanical — the way the body recognizes it.

Cited to measured biology

Every action we describe traces to the compound and its measured target.

Structure & function

We describe what an herb nourishes — never a claim to treat disease.

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What you get

What this formula gives you

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Supports clear, open, easy breathing as the everyday baseline

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Moistens and soothes a dry, rough, or tickling throat and airway

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Helps the upper passages feel fresh and uncongested through dry seasons and changing weather

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A steadying daily companion for big talkers, singers, teachers, and deep breathers

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Comforting support when smoke, dust, or city air leave the chest feeling raw

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Convergent botanicals working as one — moisten, open, gather, soothe

How it works

The science of Breath

Not buzzwords — the actual biology of the plants in this formula: their compounds, the targets those compounds are measured to engage, and the systems they nourish.

The keystone of Breath is asparagus root — Tian Men Dong in the East Asian materia medica, the great moistening tonic of the lung. Its tissue is rich in steroidal saponins; in our own molecular library we hold its measured fingerprint compounds, diosgenin and sarsasapogenin, confirmed by their PubChem identity. In the classical reading, these saponin-bearing roots are profoundly yin-moistening — they restore the slick, fluid quality that a dry airway loses. Galenic physicians would have called this exact action 'humectant and pectoral'; Culpeper grouped such moist, sweet roots among the plants that 'open the breast' and ease a dry, tickling throat. Different centuries, one observation: this root carries water back into the channels of air.

Tulsi — holy basil, sacred across the Ayurvedic tradition as the queen of herbs — supplies the opening, aromatic current. Its character lives in its volatile oils, chiefly eugenol, alongside the flavone apigenin, which in measured ChEMBL data binds a defined set of human enzyme targets including cytochrome P450 isoforms and casein kinase II. You do not need the laboratory to feel what tulsi does: it is warm, fragrant, and clearing, the aromatic that lifts heaviness off the chest and freshens the upper passages. Ayurveda placed it at the center of respiratory and breath-work practice for exactly this reason, and the African and Mediterranean traditions reached for the same family of aromatic, camphoraceous herbs to keep the breath moving.

Schizandra and licorice complete and govern the blend. Schizandra — the wu-wei-zi, the 'five-flavor berry' — is astringent and gathering; its signature lignans are why the classics use it to keep the breath from scattering and to steady the lung's qi rather than let it leak away. Licorice — Gan Cao, the great harmonizer of East Asian formulas and the soothing demulcent root of Western herbalism — is built on glycyrrhizin and 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid, compounds with documented binding at the 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase enzymes. In the tradition its role is simpler and older: it is sweet, moistening, and coating, the throat-soothing root that calms a raw passage and binds the herbs into one gentle, agreeable draught. One root moistens, one herb opens, one berry gathers, one root soothes and harmonizes — a complete respiratory gesture across the blend.

The molecules, measured

A formula is a community of compounds. Below are active molecules from the herbs in this blend and the proteins each is measured to engage — the precise points where the plants meet biology. So you see not just that it works, but how.

Cordyceps →

Cordyceps militaris

Cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine)

Lungs & Breath

What this formula gives you

The science of Breath

The shared mechanism

One drug blocks one target; Breath is four plants converging on the same biology

Who it’s for, and how to use it

Formulas that share Breath's botanicals