It’s always helpful to have a guide when making decisions that impact your health.

My intent is to give you valuable information.

This is a review article to help you save time finding the best anti-stress liquid tincture out there.

I will rank the top 10 herbal liquid extract products that I have used myself. The links below are affiliate links, meaning that this blog receives a small amount from Amazon.com when people click the links and make a purchase at no extra charge. It’s a way to limit the ads on this site while simultaneously giving you phenomenal nutritional tools for your journey.

Best Anti-Stress liquid tincture list.

This list will begin with an herb that is used for sleep and then the last herbs are beneficial for nearly everything.

10. Skullcap liquid herbal extract from Horbaach:

I’ll keep this first one brief. It is a very useful anti-inflammatory and really helps to calm the nerves. People use this more for sleep rather than for for generalized anxiety or depression. Also, make sure to not take too much or maybe don’t take it at all if you have a liver concern. Follow instructions on the bottle.

9. Bacopa (Brahmi) liquid extract from Hawaii Pharm:

Brahmi, or bacopa monnieri has confirmed benefits for the brain because it is considered a nootropic or neurocognitive nutrient.

The basic benefit behind bacopa is that it helps to decrease inflammation in the brain. Or maybe it just helps normalize inflammation so that it can function well. I don’t think most people realize that they can increase their brain’s processing power through nutrients.

To avoid disease is to keep inflammation down. Inflammation is hot and disease festers in those hellish conditions. Use nutrition to protect your precious cells from oxidative stress!

8. Elderberry liquid extract from Herb Pharm

Even though a lot of people are pushing elderberry for its immune benefits right now due to Covid-19/Coronavirus, it is a powerful antioxidant and helps with stress. Furthermore, elderberry is showing promise in helping people maintain healthy weights.

ambucus nigra fruit extract may offer substantial preventive and therapeutic potential for the treatment of obesity and obesity-related disorders, accompanied by oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance.

Regardless, elderberry is always a good supplement to know about!

7. Lemon Balm herbal liquid extract from Herb Pharm:

The nervous system wants to be in balance and homeostasis. Lemon balm contains unique antioxidants with some interesting benefits. I wasn’t going to write about one part in particular, but I stumbled upon a pubmed article that made some useful conclusions:

Liquid extract of M. officinalis (lemon balm) improved desire in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder and had beneficial effects on sexual arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain domains of the sexual dysfunction in women and may be used as an effective and safe therapy in female sexual dysfunction.

I am not surprised that natural antioxidant containing herbs support the nervous system and sexuality.

Lemon balm functions by:

• Modulating mood and cognitive function.
• Anxiolytic or anti-anxiety effects

Compared with placebo, lemon balm consumption was associated with reduced cortisol for up to six hours afterwards!

6. Asian Ginseng liquid herbal extract from Herbamama:

The fact that ginseng interacts with systems related to synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, neuroprotection, neural transmission, and much more, is worthy of special attention.

Most people use Asian ginseng for well-being, improved concentration, slowing the aging process, sustained physical stamina, cardiovascular health, anxiety, and also for the immune benefits.

By the way, don’t buy all of these. It’s probably best to try one at a time before stacking any of these.

5. Ashwagandha liquid extract tincture from Herb Pharm:

This product came highly recommended to me from a role model that I worked with at Super Supplements. It is well known for helping people deal with stress, which may help with sleep and motivation for your fitness goals.

Ashwagandha may have some promising benefits.

Research authors concluded the following:

“Ashwagandha root extract improves an individual’s resistance towards stress and thereby improves self-assessed quality of life. High-concentration full-spectrum Ashwagandha root extract can be used safely as an adaptogen in adults who are under stress.”

They even studied possible effects in helping with stress related ulcers and helping with brain health as well.

Make sure to follow the instructions on the bottle and allow the herb some days, or weeks of consistent use in order to experience some benefit.

4. Rhodiola rosea liquid extract from Horbaach

Rhodiola is a highly respected herb for energy and brain rejuvenation in part due to the popularity in the research. Just look at the names of some of these articles:

Rhodiola rosea L.: an herb with anti-stress, anti-aging, and immunostimulating properties for cancer chemoprevention

Rhodiola rosea L. Improves Learning and Memory Function

Rosenroot (Rhodiola): Potential Applications in Aging-related Diseases

This is a good supplement for people wanting to regain strength, skills, and brain function. All different types of people use this supplement, including athletes.

3. Lion’s Mane liquid extract tincture from Uphoric Urth:

Lion’s Mane is an herb that is from a mushroom. The difference between this brand and another brand is that they use the fruiting body extracts of the mushroom, which may have more powerful effects for the central nervous system and stress relief.

A recent 2020 research article called, “Therapeutic Potential of Hericium erinaceus for Depressive Disorder,” makes some very promising conclusions. They write:

[Lion’s Mane] significantly ameliorates depressive disorder through monoaminergic modulation, neurogenic/neurotrophic, and anti-inflammatory pathways. This indicates the role of Lion’s Mane as complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of depression.

That’s amazing how nutrition can help with the chemical imbalances in your head.

2. Tulsi / Holy Basil liquid extract from Global Healing Center:

Tulsi is just amazing. Without a doubt, tulsi is the herb for fighting stress that I can truly feel working. Some research professionals ask the serious question whether tulsi can be used to benefit every system in the body. Furthermore, I love the smell and taste of the herb and the benefits are undeniable.

Tulsi helps counter metabolic stress through normalizing blood glucose, positive effects on memory, cognition, and has anti-depressent properties.

If you’ve never tried Tulsi in any form, I guarantee that you are missing out. It also comes in this amazing tea and high quality liquid capsules.

FINALLY, an amazing herb…

1. Chamomile liquid extract from Herb Pharm:

Chamomile is truly underrated. The herb is one of the oldest documented royal, holy, and healing plants.

People have been using it for thousands of years.

The lucky people who had access to it during the world’s pandemics almost definitely had a higher survival rate.

Benefits of Chamomile (PubMed links):

• Helps with PMS.
• Antimicrobial.
• Blood Sugar, Diabetes support.
• Antidepressant effect on people with generalized depression.
• Superior than placebo in helping people with long term generalized anxiety.
• Anti-inflammatory.
• Anti-viral.
• Antioxidant.
• Anti-cancer activity.
• Anti-ulcer, kills bacteria responsible for ulcers.

There are SO MANY BENEFITS to chamomile consumption and it also tastes wonderfully soothing.

Chamomile has a rich history for the healers of the universe and for those who are willing to be part of that process.

I just love chamomile so much as it tends to be easy and restorative for the gut.

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