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Flow

Open the channels. Move what's stagnant, warm what's cold — clearing and circulation in one grounded blend.

Flow is a formula for the feeling of being stuck — heavy, sluggish, puffy, slow to get going. It works on the two great currents of the body that herbalists watched most closely: the lymph that drains and clears, and the blood that warms and carries. Where one or both runs slow, the whole body feels it. Flow's purpose is simple — get things moving again, gently and from the inside.

It does this two ways at once. Burdock and dandelion are the classic clearing roots of the Western and Eastern traditions alike — herbs the body's drainage and elimination systems recognize as housekeeping support, helping the lymphatic and digestive channels do their daily work of moving waste along. Then clove and ginger bring the warmth: aromatic, circulatory herbs that the body uses to open and quicken the flow of blood out to the hands, feet, and skin — the parts that go cold and quiet first when circulation slows.

The result is a blend built around one outcome: ease of movement through the body's own channels. Not a stimulant jolt, not a flush — a steady, warming opening that supports lymphatic clearing and healthy circulation together, so the body can carry nourishment in and move stagnation out the way it was designed to.

Flow is structure-and-function support for the body's circulating and clearing systems. It nourishes those systems. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

What it supports in the body

Blood/CirculatoryLymphaticSkinDigestiveLiverCardiovascularImmune

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.

For People

$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.

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What you get

What this formula gives you

Supports the body's lymphatic clearing — the daily work of draining and moving stagnation along

Supports healthy circulation and the warm, easy flow of blood to the hands, feet, and skin

Brings together bitter clearing roots and aromatic warming herbs so both currents move at once

Supports the liver and digestive channels that handle the body's everyday housekeeping

A grounded four-herb blend — burdock, dandelion, clove, ginger — convergent across every herbal tradition

Warming and gently mobilizing rather than harsh or flushing — built for steady, daily use

How it works

The science of Flow

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.

Two of Flow's four herbs are the great clearing roots. Burdock is rich in the lignan arctigenin and in chlorogenic acid — measured constituents that anchor its centuries-long use across Culpeper's English herbals, Greek-Galenic 'blood-cleansing' practice, and the bitter-root traditions of Chinese and African medicine as a support for the body's drainage and skin. Dandelion root and leaf carry the triterpenes taraxasterol and taraxerol along with the flavone luteolin; the bitter principle is what the liver and digestive tract recognize, which is why dandelion sits at the crossroads of nearly every culture's housekeeping botany — herba taraxaci in the West, a liver-and-bile herb in Chinese practice, a wayside clearing plant in Ayurvedic and folk traditions alike.

The warming half of the formula is aromatic and circulatory. Clove's signature compound eugenol and ginger's 6-gingerol are pungent, measured molecules the body responds to as warmth and movement — the sensation of blood opening to the surface. This is the convergence the old physicians described as the 'hot' or yang current: Galen's warming herbs, Ayurveda's agni (digestive fire), and the Chinese principle of moving cold stagnation. Flow simply gathers those four well-known plants into one blend so the clearing roots and the warming aromatics work the same channels at the same time.

Read across the body-system map, the four converge cleanly: burdock on the blood, lymphatic, and skin systems; dandelion on the liver and digestive systems; clove and ginger on the cardiovascular and digestive systems. That overlap — drainage plus warmth, clearing plus circulation — is the whole design of Flow, and it is described here only as support for the body's own structures and functions.

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.

Burdock

Arctium lappa

Arctigenin

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Measured to act on

Dual specificity mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1

A signaling enzyme that passes growth messages along a relay chain inside the cell.

Cytochrome P450 2C19

A liver enzyme involved in processing a variety of compounds the body encounters.

Nuclear receptor ROR-gamma

A receptor that switches certain genes on, helping guide immune-cell development.

Chlorogenic acid

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 1

An enzyme that removes phosphate tags from proteins, helping regulate insulin and metabolic signaling.

Aldo-keto reductase family 1 member B1

An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol, part of normal sugar metabolism.

Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

Luteolin

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Nuclear receptor ROR-gamma

A receptor that helps guide immune cell development and daily metabolic rhythms.

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.

Xanthine dehydrogenase/oxidase

An enzyme that breaks down purines, producing uric acid as a byproduct.

Apigenin

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes and clears a large share of dietary and plant compounds.

Aromatase

The enzyme that converts androgens into estrogens, balancing the body's hormones.

Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] A

An enzyme that breaks down serotonin and other mood-related brain messengers.

Clove

Syzygium aromaticum

Measured to act on

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 2

The enzyme that drives the body's inflammatory response.

Prostaglandin G/H synthase 1

An enzyme making prostaglandins that protect the stomach lining and support everyday tissue function.

Polyunsaturated fatty acid 5-lipoxygenase

An enzyme that turns fatty acids into signaling molecules involved in inflammation.

beta-Caryophyllene

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Cannabinoid receptor 2

A receptor of the endocannabinoid system, concentrated in immune tissue.

Ginger

Zingiber officinale

6-Gingerol

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes a wide range of compounds the body takes in.

Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1

A repair enzyme that resolves certain DNA damage so the strand can be restored.

Cytochrome P450 2C9

A liver enzyme that helps break down and process many compounds and natural substances.

6-Shogaol

PubChem ↗

Measured to act on

Cytochrome P450 3A4

A major liver enzyme that processes a wide range of compounds the body takes in.

Cytochrome P450 2D6

A liver enzyme that processes many compounds, including some the body forms naturally.

Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1

A nerve-ending sensor that responds to heat and to the pungency of chili pepper compounds.

Measured molecular activities drawn from public scientific databases (PubChem, ChEMBL), shown as the characterized chemistry of the plants in this formula — every edge traced to its source record. This describes the molecules, not the product. Structure and function only; these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

In practice

Who it’s for, and how to use it

Who it’s for

For anyone who feels heavy, sluggish, puffy, or slow to warm up — the person whose hands and feet run cold, who feels stagnant after sitting too long, or who simply wants to support the body's natural drainage and circulation. Flow is for any body that wants to keep its channels open and moving, whatever the season. As with all warming, mobilizing herbs, those who are pregnant, nursing, or taking prescribed medication should speak with their own practitioner before adding it.

How to use it

Take 1/4 tsp (up to 1 tsp) of the extract powder in hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food, once daily. Hot water suits this blend especially well — warmth carries warmth. Begin with light doses; our extracts are very potent, and the warming, mobilizing nature of clove and ginger is felt quickly. Build up only as your body welcomes it.

Measure · 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.

What’s inside

Inside Flow: burdock root, dandelion, clove, and ginger — two clearing roots and two warming aromatics, in equal measure. Nothing else. The most pristine herbs on earth, extracted and blended for a single purpose: to help the body's own channels open and move.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Introduce one formula at a time and notice how the body responds; if you are pregnant, nursing, or on a prescription, know the interaction before you begin.