12 Popular Herbal Supplements
Smeets & Graas has a wide variety of herbal supplements in its assortment. Read more below about what herbal supplements we have, what exactly herbal supplements are and what herbal supplements can do for your health.
What are herbal supplements / botanicals
'Botanicals' is not a one-size-fits-all concept:
On this website
On this website we start from how botanicals are seen in nutrition and in herbal medicine (phytotherapy).
This view of botanicals is based on a broad definition: it involves substances obtained from organisms in the plant kingdom that have bioactive (health-promoting) effects.
That can be flowering plants, mosses, herbaceous plants, fruits, vegetables, grasses, algae, trees etcetera, both annual and perennial. And it can come from all parts of these organisms: roots, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits, flowers, bark, seeds, or the whole organism.
Botany
The definition of herbaceous plants in botany is much narrower: An herbaceous plant or herb is a vascular plant that has no or very little woodiness and no (or very little) secondary thickness growth. Thus, herbaceous plants have no stem, stems or branches that thicken annually [Wikipedia definition].
In the kitchen
Kitchen herbs are dried (in leaf or powder form) parts of herbaceous plants used to enhance the flavor of food. Fresh herbs are also used (basil, mint, thyme). In traditional use, herbs were also used to preserve food. The bioactivity of herbs used in cooking does not play a significant role: the primary concern is taste and at most secondarily possible positive health effects.
Herbal supplements at Smeets & Graas (1)
Herbal supplements in our assortment come in different forms:
- As a single herbal supplements for example Ashwagandha or Valerian.
- Products with 2 or more botanicals that enhance each other's actions, for example, Bonusan Cynara-Zingiber Extract with ginger and artichoke.
- Formulary products that contain herbal and other ingredients such as Thorne Joint Support Nutrients, a formula for the joints that contains glucosamine and MSM in addition to the herbs Turmeric and Boswellia.
Herbal supplements on Smeets & Graas (2)
On this herbal category page we present 11 popular (single) botanicals a bit more extensively but the complete range of botanicals is much larger. Below a selection:
- Artichoke
- Astragalus
- Bacopa
- Bergamot (citrus)
- Berries
- Bilberry
- Black Seed Oil
- Boswellia
- Broccoli
- California poppy
- Camu Camu
- Cat's claw
- Cayenne
- Chamomile
- Chicory
- Cimicifuga - Black Cohosh
- Cinnamon
- Coriander
- Dandelion
- Dong Quai
- Elderberry
- Fenugreek
- Feverfew
- Forskolin (Coleus forskohlii)
- Ginger
- Glucomannan (Konjac)
- Gotu Kola
- Grapefruit seed
- Grape Seed extract (OPC)
- Green Coffee Extract
- Green Tea (Camellia sinensis)
- Guduchi
- Hawthorn
- Holy Basil
- Hops
- Horse Chestnut
- Lemon Balm
- Liquorice Root Extract
- Lycopene
- Maca
- Moringa
- Mucuna Pruriens
- Olive leaf extract
- Oregano (Origanum vulgare)
- Passion flower
- Peppermint
- Perilla oil
- Pollen
- Pomegranate
- Pumpkin seed
- Propolis
- Pycnogenol
- Resveratrol
- Rhodiola
- Red Yeast Rice
- Round-Sundew
- Rose hip
- Rutin
- Saffron
- Salvestrols
- Saw Palmetto
- Schisandra chinensis
- Scutellaria
- Shilajit fulvic acid
- Stinging nettle
- Tart Cherry
- Teasel
- Tormentil
- Tribulus
- Uva Ursi Juniper
- Vitex Agnus-Castus
- Watercress
- Wild Bitter Melon
- White Willow (Salix Alba)
