For People
Radiance
Clear, resilient skin nourished from the blood out — radiance that begins beneath the surface.
Radiance is built on a simple truth that every botanical culture arrived at independently: the skin is not a surface to be scrubbed and coated — it is the outermost expression of what moves underneath it. The clarity, tone, and resilience you see in a face are the visible report of the blood, the liver, and the channels that carry nourishment outward and carry waste away. This formula works from that report inward, feeding the systems whose condition the skin reflects rather than chasing the reflection itself.
Five botanicals do the work. Burdock root — the great blood-and-skin herb of the Western tradition, named by Culpeper and used the same way in Chinese practice — supports the body's own clearing channels, the liver and the lymph, so the skin isn't asked to carry a load that belongs elsewhere. Purple mulberry and goji bring the blood-nourishing, deeply pigmented side of the formula, the herbs traditionally reached for when complexion looked thin or tired. Schisandra tends the liver, the organ classical practice tied directly to clear, even skin. And he shou wu, the storied restorative root, anchors the formula in the kidney-and-essence layer that East Asian herbalism considers the deep reservoir behind a vital appearance.
Use it when you want your skin nourished as part of a whole — not patched from the outside, but supported from the blood and the clearing organs out. It is a daily, food-grade practice taken steadily. Radiance is something the body cultivates over weeks of being well-fed, and this formula is built to feed it.
Everything here is structure and function: we describe the body's own systems that these herbs nourish — blood, liver, skin, the clearing channels — and how they have been fed for centuries. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This is original herbal practice, offered honestly.
What it supports in the body
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
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.
What you get
What this formula gives you
Supports clear, resilient skin nourished from within rather than treated at the surface
Feeds the blood-and-circulatory layer tied to an even, well-fed complexion
Nourishes the liver and lymphatic clearing channels the skin relies on
Anchors a daily vitality practice in the kidney-and-essence reservoir of East Asian herbalism
Brings five convergent botanicals — Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic lineages — into one grounded formula
A food-grade daily ritual built for cultivation over weeks
How it works
The science of Radiance
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 clearing side of Radiance is led by burdock. Its measured constituents include arctigenin and chlorogenic acid — well-characterized plant compounds with documented molecular activity — alongside the inulin and bitter principles that gave the root its long reputation as a blood and skin herb. In the structure/function frame, burdock supports the liver and lymphatic channels that the skin depends on; when those channels are well-nourished, the skin is not left to do their work. Western herbalists from Culpeper forward and Chinese practitioners both placed burdock squarely in the skin-and-blood category, an unusual cross-cultural agreement.
The blood-nourishing core comes from purple mulberry and goji, two deeply pigmented fruits whose color is itself a marker of the compounds within. Goji is rich in the carotenoids zeaxanthin and beta-carotene and the methyl-donor betaine — measured constituents that the body recognizes as building blocks rather than foreign chemistry. Purple mulberry carries the anthocyanin and stilbene pigments associated with a full, well-fed complexion. These herbs support the blood and circulatory layer that classical practice — Western, Ayurvedic, and Chinese alike — understood as the true source of a clear face: nourish the blood, and the skin it feeds follows.
Schisandra and he shou wu hold the deeper structural ground. Schisandra's lignans support the liver, the organ East Asian practice bound most tightly to even, luminous skin, while its astringent quality is why it earned the name 'five-flavor berry.' He shou wu contributes the measured stilbene glucoside THSG and supports the kidney-and-essence reservoir treated as the long reserve behind vitality and a resilient appearance. Together the five herbs converge on one structure/function story — clearing, nourishing, and anchoring — which is why they belong in a single formula rather than five separate jars.
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.
Arctium lappa
Arctigenin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A signaling enzyme that passes growth messages along a relay chain inside the cell.
A liver enzyme involved in processing a variety of compounds the body encounters.
A receptor that switches certain genes on, helping guide immune-cell development.
Chlorogenic acid
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that removes phosphate tags from proteins, helping regulate insulin and metabolic signaling.
An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol, part of normal sugar metabolism.
Morus nigra
Quercetin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that converts excess glucose into sorbitol as part of sugar metabolism.
An enzyme that converts fatty acids into messengers of the inflammatory response.
An enzyme the influenza virus uses to release newly made copies from a host cell.
Rutin (quercetin-3-O-rutinoside)
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme the influenza virus uses to release newly made copies from a host cell.
The enzyme that produces uric acid as the body breaks down spent genetic building blocks.
Lycium barbarum
Betaine
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that recycles the amino acid homocysteine back into methionine using betaine.
Scopoletin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme that helps cells balance acidity by managing carbon dioxide.
Schisandra chinensis
Schisandrin B (Wuweizisu B)
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A guardian enzyme that senses DNA stress and helps coordinate repair.
A sentinel enzyme that detects DNA breaks and signals the cell to mend them.
An enzyme that helps stitch broken DNA strands back together.
Schisandrin C (= Wuweizisu C)
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
The enzyme that drives the body's inflammatory response.
The liver's busiest enzyme for breaking down compounds the body takes in.
A liver enzyme that helps metabolize and clear many compounds from the body.
Polygonum multiflorum
Emodin
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
A constantly active signaling enzyme involved in cell growth and stress responses.
A regulatory enzyme that removes phosphate tags involved in cell signaling and movement.
An enzyme that converts glucose into sorbitol as part of cellular sugar handling.
Physcion (Parietin)
PubChem ↗Measured to act on
An enzyme released by immune cells that helps break down debris during the inflammatory response.
An enzyme that helps keep cells in antioxidant balance against oxidative stress.
An antioxidant enzyme that protects the cell's energy factories from oxidative stress.
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 wants their skin nourished as the outward expression of a well-tended body — fed from the blood, the liver, and the clearing channels rather than coated from the outside. It suits people drawn to a slow, daily, food-grade practice over fast cosmetic fixes, and those who appreciate that clear, resilient skin is something the body cultivates when it is well-nourished. A whole-body vitality ritual.
How to use it
Take 1/4 teaspoon (working up to 1 teaspoon) of the extract powder once daily, stirred into hot water, tea, coffee, a smoothie, or food. Begin with light doses — these extracts are very potent and a little goes a long way. Radiance rewards consistency: think of it as a standing part of a morning or evening ritual over weeks, the way the body builds anything worth keeping.
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: burdock root, purple mulberry, goji, schisandra, and he shou wu — five botanicals chosen because every herbal culture, from Culpeper's England to classical Chinese practice, converged on the same insight that the skin reflects the blood and the clearing organs beneath it. We name them plainly and gratefully. The most pristine herbs on earth.
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.