Herbal and Mushroom Blends for Brain Health & Focus
Herbal teas, supplements and tinctures to support focus and clarity, expertly crafted by herbalists for everyday wellbeing.
Ginkgo has grown essentially unchanged for two hundred million years. Brahmi has been in Ayurvedic texts for over a thousand. Rosemary is traditionally the herb of remembrance in Europe. Alongside them are gotu kola, shankhpushpi, tulsi, frankincense and Lion's Mane, across capsules, tea, tincture and a powder.
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Which Herbs Are Used for Focus and Clarity?
Ginkgo, brahmi, gotu kola, rosemary and shankhpushpi are the plants that recur most across Ayurvedic and European practice. Rosemary has been associated with remembrance in Europe for centuries; brahmi and shankhpushpi have both been in Ayurvedic texts for over a thousand years. Functional mushrooms, Lion's Mane in particular, are a more recent addition from East Asian tradition.
Ginkgo biloba is a tree species with no close living relatives, the last survivor of a lineage essentially unchanged for around two hundred million years, which is why it is called a living fossil. The leaf is the part used. It interacts with anticoagulant and antiplatelet medicines and carries seizure-threshold cautions, so it is worth checking with your GP or pharmacist before taking anything containing it.
No, though the confusion is common and long-standing. Brahmi usually means Bacopa monnieri, a small creeping marsh plant of India. Gotu kola is Centella asiatica, a different plant of Asian wetlands, and it is also called brahmi in some regions. They are used for overlapping purposes in Ayurvedic practice, which is how the naming became tangled.
The association runs back at least to Greek antiquity, where students are said to have worn rosemary while studying, and it persisted through European folk tradition into literature, Ophelia's line in Hamlet is the best-known reference but far from the first. It is one of the oldest continuous associations between a plant and a use anywhere in European herbal writing.
Eleuthero is Eleutherococcus senticosus, a shrub of eastern Siberia and northern China. It is widely sold as Siberian ginseng, but it is not a true ginseng and is not closely related to Panax ginseng. The name came from Soviet-era research and stuck, which causes a good deal of confusion on labels.
The fruiting body is the mushroom itself, the part that grows above the substrate. Mycelium is the root-like network beneath, and in commercial production it is usually grown on grain and then dried and milled together with it. That means a mycelium-on-grain powder can be substantially starch rather than mushroom. Products using the fruiting body generally say so on the label.
Lion's Mane Extract 10:1 and the Brain Power Mix. Focus Tea, Focus Tincture and Focus Complex all contain it. This matters if you take anticoagulant or antiplatelet medicines. Speak to your GP or pharmacist before starting any of the three.
Several are not, and ginkgo in particular carries restrictions. Every product page states its own guidance, and our Medical Herbalists can advise on what is appropriate.