passionflower is a perennial herbaceous plant widely used in herbal medicine for its calming and anxiolytic properties useful in nervous system disorders.
Let's learn more about it.
Passiflora Incarnata, what is it?
Passionflower (scientific name Passiflora Incarnata) is a perennial climbing herbaceous plant with a robust, woody stem that can reach 10 meters in length.Native to the southern United States, it is now cultivated almost everywhere for medicinal, ornamental, and edible fruit purposes.
The plant is characterized by:
- leaves: aalternate, stalked, and finely covered with dense, fine hairs.
- flowers: solitary, at the tip of a long stalk whose terminal part bears 3 oval, serrated bracts. They have 5 sepals (green on the outside and white on the inside) and 5 thin white petals.
- fruit: oval berries containing numerous seeds immersed in a fleshy substance with a sweet taste.
The benefits and properties of Passionflower:
Passionflower is an herbal remedy, and its medicinal drug consists of the flowering tops: the leaves and aerial parts of Passiflora incarnata contain:
- indole alkaloids (harmane, passiflorine, harmine, harmol, harmaline, harmalol)
- tannins
- phytosterols
- phenolic acids
- traces of essential oil
- flavonoids (hyperoside, vitexin, isovitexin, saponarin, rutin, apigenin, quercetin)
- amino acids
- oxycoumarin
- fatty acids and organic acids
Passionflower mother tincture is one of the most sought-after herbal remedies for addressing nervous system disorders, thanks to its sedative and calming action which is effective in cases of insomnia, stress, anxiety, neurosis, anguish, menopausal disorders, and premenstrual syndrome.
Moreover, thanks to the antispasmodic effect of the harmala alkaloids contained in its mother tincture, it helps to relax the smooth muscles of the uterus and is therefore indicated in cases of menstrual pain.
Passiflora Supplement: its properties:
The Alcohol-Free Passiflora Mother Tincture, or Passiflora Glyceric Macerate, is a natural remedy useful for:
- relaxation (sleep, in case of stress)
- mental well-being,
- regular gastrointestinal motility and elimination of gas.
All these claims are regulated and approved by the Italian Ministry of Health for their physiological effects, aimed at “optimizing the body's functions within the scope of homeostasis”.
Passiflora Mother Tincture
The mother tincture (MT) is a liquid preparation obtained by extracting the fresh plant material through percolation o maceration with a suitable solvent.
The solvent most commonly used in mother tinctures is a hydroalcoholic solution (water + alcohol) with a variable concentration (most often between 60° and 80°), depending on the solubility of the active compounds to be extracted.
The passiflora mother tincture it is an herbal preparation extracted from the leaves and fruits of the plant, which are macerated at a 1:10 ratio in a solution of water and Alcohol. It is an herbal remedy considered useful for the for its hypotensive, vasodilatory, and antispasmodic properties.
Passiflora Glyceric Macerate: what is it?
In recent years, Mother Tinctures extracted using Vegetable Glycerin instead of Alcohol have become increasingly popular, making them better in several respects. Moreover, since Glycerin is a less powerful and therefore less extractive solvent than Alcohol, innovative extraction techniques are used, such as Ultrasonic Extraction.
Ultrasound extraction is an innovative, clean, easy-to-perform and rapid extraction technique that allows the active ingredients to be extracted from plants and medicinal herbs in particular, and quality phytoextracts to be produced, by harnessing the exclusively mechanical action of the cavitation effect produced by sound waves.
The Passionflower Mother Tincture is obtained by hydroglyceric maceration of the aerial parts of Passiflora Incarnata, always using a 1:10 ratio, and is an innovative type of Mother Tincture which, having been obtained through the ultrasound process, makes it superior from several points of view.
At Vonderweid, thanks to our twenty years of experience in the field of Food Supplements and after a lengthy process of research and development in our laboratories for the production of Alcohol-free Mother Tinctures, we managed to obtain a product with the desired characteristics.
Our alcohol-free Mother Tinctures are classified as Food Supplements and are regularly notified to Ministry of Health.
Passionflower, how many drops should you take?
For taking Passionflower drops, we recommend using 40 drops dissolved
in a glass of water, 1-3 times a day. Taking 40 drops of Vonderweid Passionflower Mother Tincture is equivalent to taking 260 mg of Passionflower.
Always remember not to exceed the recommended daily dose. Keep out of reach of children under 3 years of age. Food supplements should not be understood as substitutes for a varied, balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle, and we always recommend seeking the advice of your doctor or nutritionist before taking them.
We therefore recommend always consulting your doctor before starting to take St. John’s wort Mother Tincture, and then consulting a qualified herbalist or phytotherapy expert to determine how to take the St. John’s wort tincture and in what quantities.
