End of Monsoon: The Week Off That Tells You If Your Herbs Work
Around 40 percent of supplement users take them for over five years without a pause. How to spend one week off, and how to restart a herb routine after it.
What 30 Days of the Sugar Balance System Costs and Returns
One Sugar Balance System box is LKR 6,700 and lasts about 30 days at the stated dose, roughly LKR 223 a day. What is inside it, and what the evidence shows.
5 Mistakes That Keep Digestion Stuck in Crisis Mode
More than 40% of adults worldwide report a functional gut complaint. Here are five mistakes that keep digestion in crisis mode, and the fix for each one.
After-Dinner Ginger Tea: The Evening Cup That Settles a Heavy Meal
A 10-minute after-dinner ginger tea with exact quantities and timings, plus what a 126-patient dyspepsia trial actually showed about ginger and heavy meals.
Probiotics and Triphala: What the Timing Evidence Actually Says
Probiotics mostly pass through rather than colonise, and Triphala's longest human trials ran about 45 days. What the timing evidence actually supports.
What Ginger Actually Does to a Stomach That Feels Off
Ginger speeds gastric emptying and blunts the 5-HT3 signal behind nausea. Trials used 0.5g to 2g a day for 4 to 21 days. Here is what that means in practice.
An Evening Calm Routine That Earns Its Place, Explained Plainly
A meta-analysis of 11 randomised trials found gotukola raised alertness but not memory. Here is what each part of an evening calm routine actually does, and in what order it matters.
5 mood and focus herbs: which one fits which kind of day
Five herbs for mood and cognition, sorted by the kind of day each one actually suits: St. Johns Wort, Brahmi, Ginkgo, Gotukola and Chamomilla.
How to build a 30-day evening ritual around one herb
Thirty consistent evenings beat ninety scattered ones. A six-step, four-minute evening ritual built around one herb, with the skip rule that keeps the streak alive.
Where a herb grows changes what ends up in the capsule
A JAMA analysis found 20.7% of Ayurvedic products sold online carried lead, mercury or arsenic. Here is why a named growing origin changes potency too.
Ashwagandha powder vs capsules: when a spoon beats a pill
Traditional Ayurveda measured ashwagandha in grams of root powder, not milligrams. Here is when loose powder beats capsules, when a capsule is the smarter call, and how to take the spoon without ha...
Pre-monsoon prep: 4 Sri Lankan herbs to fortify before the rains
The Maha monsoon brings colds, sinus trouble, and gut bugs, and over half of infectious diseases worsen with floods. Four Sri Lankan herbs to prep with before the rains.