The blend

Ginkgo Biloba, Gotu Kola, Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri), Herb Robert, Tulsi (Holy Basil), Cornflower, Moringa (Moringa oleifera), L-theanine. Organically grown, sourced across Australia and traditional regions.

How to brew

Mild: 1 tsp, water at 90 °C, cover and steep 3–5 minutes.

Strong: 2 tablespoons, water at 90 °C, cover and steep 5–10 minutes.

Drink 1–2 cups across the morning. Add raw honey if desired.

Where the mechanism lives

The blend carries eight plants. Most pull on the traditional-use story — herbalism has associated this kind of formulation with cerebral blood flow, memory, and unhurried attention for a long time. Two players carry mechanism beyond tradition:

Moringa (Moringa oleifera) — high folate content, plus MIC-1, an isothiocyanate cousin of the sulforaphane in our broccoli sprout powder. Moringa brushes the same methylation machinery the sprouts work on more directly. An under-played ingredient in the modern adaptogenic literature.

L-theanine — an amino acid that naturally co-occurs in Camellia sinensis tea, included here as a discrete extract since this is a herbal (caffeine-free) blend, not green tea. Crosses the blood-brain barrier within 30 minutes. Nobre, Rao and Owen (2008) reported alpha-wave activity increases on EEG 30–45 minutes after typical dietary doses, with modulation of glutamate and GABA tone.¹ Half-life around 3 hours. No sedation.

The other six — ginkgo, gotu kola, brahmi, herb robert, tulsi, cornflower — sit in the traditional-cognitive-blend lineage. Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) has the strongest modern evidence base of the six: Calabrese and colleagues (2008) randomised 54 healthy adults aged 65+ to 300 mg/day of a standardised Bacopa extract or placebo for 12 weeks, and reported improvements on cognitive measures, anxiety scores, and depression scores.² Herb Robert sits in the Maria Treben herbalist tradition and we include it as a heritage anchor, not a mechanism claim.

What users report

Reported subjective effects on memory, concentration, and clarity vary. Not a therapeutic claim and not assessed by the TGA.

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