This page has two jobs. First, it explains everything printed on the one-ounce bottle of liquid herbal extract we sell: what each ingredient is, and what the research does and does not say about it, including who was in each study, at what amount, and what each study actually measured. Second, and this is the part most advertising pages leave out, it lists the headlines we run about the heart and circulation, tells you which ones are exaggerated, and separates the small number of things that are genuinely supported by evidence from the many that are not.
You almost certainly arrived here from an advertisement. The headline you clicked was written by us and paid for by us to appear next to real news stories. It was designed to make you stop scrolling. Several of our headlines overstate what the science actually shows, and a few attribute statements to experts who do not exist.
Everything on this site is a paid advertisement for a product we sell. If you buy through a link on any of our pages, we are paid a commission. That is the reason this site exists.
The product is a one-ounce bottle of liquid herbal extract, Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract, made by Herb Pharm, Central Point, Oregon (the label prints Williams, Oregon) and sold by Herb Pharm, LLC, Central Point, Oregon as a dietary supplement (an herbal supplement). One serving is one squeeze of the bulb (0.7 ml) in two ounces of water or juice, two to four times a day, between meals. It is a traditional herbal product with a small modern record, and no study has ever tested this product itself. No food, drink or supplement on this page is a substitute for your own clinician.
If you are genuinely concerned about your heart or your circulation, the most useful thing you can do is book a visit with your own clinician. A yearly check measures things that no advertisement, no home test and no product can, and it costs you nothing from us. We would rather you close this page and make that call than buy something under a false impression.
If you take anything daily, show the label of this extract to your pharmacist before the first serving.
These are the headlines we have run, grouped by the claim they make, starting with the ones about the extract we sell. The right-hand column is our own plain assessment. We have marked each one as Exaggerated, Partly true, Withdrawn, Our headline was wrong or Broadly supported.
| The headline as you saw it | What is actually behind it |
|---|---|
| "The 4-Plant Hawthorn Extract Men Over 60 Add to a Glass of Water" | Partly true The extract is real: hawthorn leaf, flower and berry, night-blooming cactus, motherwort and ginger, taken as one squeeze of the bulb in two ounces of water or juice, two to four times a day, between meals. What we made up is the crowd: we have no count of men over 60 doing it. The amount is small, and our headline did not say so. Each squeeze was made from 98 mg of dried plant and 140 mg of fresh plant, all four plants together, while the European monograph lists a cup of 1 to 2 g of dried hawthorn leaf and flower. [1] Even counting the fresh plant generously, one squeeze carries less plant than a quarter of the smallest cup. |
| "The Old Hedge Berry Europeans Have Brewed for Centuries Is Back" | Exaggerated The hedge berry is hawthorn, and the "centuries" part is fair: its berries, leaves and flowers have a long place in European herbal tradition, and its fruit has been eaten as food in Europe, China and by Native American tribes. [2] "Is back" suggests a new finding, and there is none behind that word; it was written to sound like news. Europe's herbal committee classes hawthorn leaf and flower as a traditional-use product, based on at least 30 years of use rather than on clinical trials, [3] and the National Institutes of Health's center for complementary health says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses. [4] Tradition is the reason a plant gets studied, not a result. |
| "The Morning Drink Heart Experts Can't Stop Talking About" | Exaggerated No heart expert is named in it, because none was consulted. "The morning drink" is an advertising variable: in different versions it has meant coffee, tea and the product we sell. The US Food and Drug Administration cites 400 mg of caffeine a day, about two to three 12-ounce cups of coffee, as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in most healthy adults, [5] and tea has a small, repeatable short-term measurement behind it, partly from studies run by a tea company. [6] None of that is a reason to change your morning because of an advertisement. See section 2. |
| "The 20-Minute Walk That Beats 10,000 Steps" | Partly true The useful half: 10,000 steps a day is popular advice, not a guideline, and the federal activity guidelines use a 20-minute walk as their own worked example of setting a daily goal. [7] The overstated half is "beats". The guidelines set a weekly range of 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity such as brisk walking, plus muscle-strengthening on two or more days, [8] and bouts of any length count toward it. [7] A 20-minute walk every day adds up to 140 minutes a week, just under the lower end: a fine start, not a finish line. See section 5. |
| "Heart Experts Name 3 Foods to Stop Eating After 60" | Exaggerated No expert named a list for us, and the count of three is ours. The official guidance is broader and duller: keep sodium under 2,300 mg a day and avoid highly processed foods that are salty or sweet, [9] swap deep-fried cooking for baked, broiled, roasted or grilled, [10] and avoid sugar-sweetened drinks. [11] Those are patterns, not three banned foods, and none of them starts at 60. See section 3. |
| "Your Pulse Says More Than You Think. Take the 10-Second Wrist Test" | Our headline was wrong There is no 10-second wrist test. Counting your pulse is a real skill: two fingers below the base of the thumb, counting for a full minute or for 30 seconds and doubling, and for adults a resting rate of 60 to 100 beats a minute is considered normal. [12] A count tells you a count, and counting for ten seconds and multiplying by six only makes a one-beat slip six times bigger. See section 4. |
| "Can You Climb 4 Flights of Stairs in a Minute? What It Means After 60" | Exaggerated Stairs are good activity, and the activity guidelines say even climbing a few flights counts toward your week. [7] A stopwatch on a staircase, read against a number in an advertisement, means nothing: fitness, knees, the height of the steps and last night all change the time. The guidelines ask older adults to judge their effort against their own fitness, not against a stranger's number. [13] If stairs feel different from how they felt a few months ago, mention it at your next visit. |
| "The Salt Swap Men Over 60 Are Making at Breakfast" | Broadly supported The broad idea holds. Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium a day against a limit of less than 2,300 mg, about one teaspoon of table salt, [14] and that limit applies to everyone 14 and older, not only after 60. [9] What we got wrong is the shaker. Over 70% of sodium comes from packaged and prepared foods, so the swap that matters is at the label, where 5% of the Daily Value or less per serving is low and 20% or more is high. [14] The extract we sell: The panel prints no sodium line. |
| "In Japan, Men Over 60 Drink This Before Bed for Better Circulation" | Withdrawn We retract this one outright. There is no Japanese study, no group of experts and no specific drink behind it. Japan appears because it is associated with long life, which made the claim feel credible, and "before bed" borrowed a nightly habit to sell a product. Nothing on this page, including what we sell, is a bedtime drink for circulation; the label of our extract asks for it between meals. |
An honest answer: these headlines appear beside real news stories, competing for attention with everything else on the page, and dramatic phrasing gets clicked. That is the incentive, and we are subject to it like every other advertiser.
It is also why this page exists. Once you are here, you are entitled to know exactly which claims we can stand behind and which ones were written to get your attention. Everything below is the sober version.
Our headlines have pointed at "the morning drink", a glass of water with an extract in it and a drink "before bed", often without naming them. Here is each drink we were pointing at, and what the sources actually support. Where a study is cited, we say who was in it and what it measured; a short-term measurement in a small group is not a health outcome.
The measure our extract is compared with · Traditional use, little quality evidence
What the research says. For adults, the European Union herbal monograph on hawthorn leaf and flower lists a tea of 1 to 2 g of the cut dried leaf and flower in 150 ml of boiling water up to four times a day, at most 6 g a day; it does not recommend it during pregnancy or breastfeeding or in children, and asks that a clinician be consulted if anything unexpected occurs. [1] The National Institutes of Health's center for complementary health says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses, and lists possible side effects such as dizziness, nausea and muscle aches. [4]
Honest verdict. If what interested you was the amount of hawthorn in a traditional cup, a box of loose hawthorn leaf and flower is the direct way to get it.
About the product we sell. Each squeeze was made from 98 mg of dried plant and 140 mg of fresh plant, all four plants together; four squeezes, the most the label suggests, come to under 1 g of plant for the whole day. The label does not say how much of each squeeze is hawthorn.
The "morning drink" in most versions · No reason in our sources to give it up
What the research says. The US Food and Drug Administration cites 400 mg of caffeine a day, about two to three 12-ounce cups of brewed coffee, as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in most healthy adults; a 12-ounce cup holds 113 to 247 mg, and too much can bring a faster heartbeat, jitters, an upset stomach, a headache and a poor night. [5] The European safety panel reached a similar place: single doses up to 200 mg and daily intakes up to 400 mg raise no safety concerns for healthy adults. [15]
Honest verdict. If you enjoy plain coffee, keep it, earlier in the day. What goes into the cup, syrups and sugar, deserves more attention than the coffee.
About the product we sell. The panel prints no caffeine figure.
The other "morning drink" · A real short-term measurement, in small studies
What the research says. Green, black and oolong teas come from the same plant, and green tea contains caffeine. [16] In 21 healthy women, both green and black tea made the arm artery widen more easily two hours after drinking than water did, by about the same amount. [17] A meta-analysis of nine studies found the same direction at about 500 ml a day, two to three cups, with results that varied widely, and all three of its authors worked for a company that sells tea. [6] In one small study of 16 women, adding 10% skimmed milk erased that short-term effect. [18]
Honest verdict. A pleasant habit with a real, short-lived measurement behind it. It is not a health outcome, and it is no reason to choose a supplement over a teapot. One study of 16 people is not a rule about milk.
The "drink before bed" in some versions · Less is better
What the research says. In the United States, one standard drink contains about 14 grams of pure alcohol, the amount in a 12-ounce beer at 5%, a 5-ounce glass of wine at 12% or a 1.5-ounce shot at 40%. [19] The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, advise consuming less alcohol for better overall health, and say it should be avoided entirely by people who take anything daily that can interact with it. [11]
Honest verdict. Cutting back is sound advice, and nothing we sell offsets a drink. If you drink heavily every day, do not stop abruptly on your own: ask your clinician how to cut back.
About the product we sell. The extract is made with certified organic cane alcohol, 54 to 64%. A 0.7 ml squeeze holds roughly 0.3 to 0.35 g of alcohol, about a fortieth of a standard drink or a little less, and four squeezes come to about a tenth of one drink, each diluted in two ounces of water or juice. If you avoid alcohol entirely, this product is not for you.
Part of every "drinks to avoid" headline · Broadly supported
What the research says. The same guidelines advise avoiding sugar-sweetened beverages such as sodas, fruit drinks and energy drinks, keeping fruit or vegetable juice to limited portions or diluting it with water, and keeping any one meal to no more than 10 grams of added sugars. [11]
Honest verdict. The easiest swap on this page: water, sparkling water, or unsweetened tea or coffee. If you take our extract in juice, two ounces is a small glass.
About the product we sell. The panel prints no added sugar.
The drink our ads rarely name · The caffeine and sugar add up fast
What the research says. A 16-ounce energy drink can carry 70 to 240 mg of caffeine and an energy shot 113 to 200 mg, against about 100 mg in an 8-ounce cup of coffee, and a 16-ounce can may hold 54 to 62 grams of added sugar; large amounts of caffeine can raise heart rate. [20]
Honest verdict. One can may carry more caffeine than two 8-ounce cups of coffee and more than five meals' worth of the per-meal sugar limit above. Worth leaving on the shelf, at any age.
The drink our headlines never name · The cheapest move on this page
What the research says. The current guidelines say to choose water, still or sparkling, and unsweetened drinks. [11]
Honest verdict. It costs nothing and cannot be sold in a bottle of extract. We leave it out of our advertising for the obvious reason, and we are putting it back in here. The two ounces of water the label asks for are a start, not the day's glass.
We do not print a list, and you should not act on one from an advertisement. Do not stop, reduce or skip anything a clinician gave you because of this page or any of our headlines.
Put everything you take, including what you buy over the counter, into one bag with this extract and take it to your pharmacist. Ask: "Is anything here a poor fit at my age, and does anything here argue with this?" The label itself asks for caution in anyone who takes something daily for the heart, so if you take anything daily, especially for the heart and circulation, show this label to your pharmacist before the first glass. The liquid is also 54 to 64% cane alcohol.
The food headlines referred to "3 foods to stop eating" and a salt swap. The number three was ours, not a finding. Here is what was meant, and what stands behind it.
The "3 foods" and the "salt swap" · Broadly supported
What the research says. Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium a day against a limit of less than 2,300 mg, about one teaspoon of table salt; over 70% of it comes from packaged and prepared foods, and the top sources include deli-meat sandwiches, pizza, burritos and tacos, soups and savory snacks. [14] The limit applies to everyone 14 and older, and the guidelines add that highly active people may need more sodium to offset sweat. [9]
Honest verdict. Read the sodium line: 5% of the Daily Value or less per serving is low, 20% or more is high. [14] Cooking more at home moves the number further than any shaker.
Usually two of the "3 foods" · Broadly supported
What the research says. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, advise avoiding highly processed packaged, prepared or ready-to-eat foods that are salty or sweet, such as chips, cookies and candy, [9] and swapping deep-fried cooking for baked, broiled, roasted, stir-fried or grilled. [10]
Honest verdict. Worth moderating, as a pattern rather than a ban. Not undone by any supplement, including ours.
Where most dietary nitrate comes from · Food first
What the research says. About 80% of the nitrate in the diet comes from vegetables, and the body turns part of it into nitrite with the help of bacteria in the mouth; two day-long menus built on the same vegetable-rich eating plan delivered anywhere from 174 mg to 1,222 mg of nitrate, depending only on which vegetables and fruits were chosen. [21] The guidelines set a goal of 3 servings of vegetables and 2 of fruit a day on a 2,000-calorie pattern. [10]
Honest verdict. A plate of vegetables comes with fiber and potassium that no extract copies, and our extract is not a vegetable.
The mineral printed beside sodium on the label · Food first
What the research says. The Adequate Intake of potassium is 3,400 mg a day for men and 2,600 mg for women, and the listed sources include beans, lentils, tomatoes, potatoes with the skin, sweet potatoes, soy, winter squash, citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, apricots, milk, yogurt, nuts, meats and fish. [22]
Honest verdict. Get it from food. Ask before a potassium supplement, especially if you take anything daily. [22]
The "omega-3" food behind many headlines · Supported as food
What the research says. A 3-ounce cooked serving of farmed Atlantic salmon carries about 1.24 g of DHA and 0.59 g of EPA, Atlantic herring 0.94 g and 0.77 g, and sardines canned in tomato sauce 0.74 g and 0.45 g, against about 0.17 g and 0.02 g in light tuna canned in water. [23] The guidelines name omega-3-rich seafood among sources of healthy fat, [10] and the side effects of omega-3 supplements are usually mild, such as an unpleasant taste, heartburn or an upset stomach. [24]
Honest verdict. Two fish meals a week is a habit, not a purchase.
The fat the guidelines name first · Supported as a pattern
What the research says. A review that defined the Mediterranean pattern in numbers described three to nine servings of vegetables, half to two of fruit, one to thirteen of cereals and up to eight servings of olive oil a day, with about 33 g of fiber. [25] The current guidelines name olive oil first among the oils to cook with. [10]
Honest verdict. The pattern is a whole kitchen, not an extract. If the Mediterranean idea interests you, the olive oil and the vegetables are in the grocery store.
Drink more plain water. Drink less alcohol and fewer sugary drinks. Keep your coffee or tea if you enjoy them, earlier in the day, and go easy on what you stir into them. Read the sodium line on packaged food. Eat more vegetables, beans, fruit, fish and olive oil, and less from the fryer and the snack aisle. Every one of those changes costs nothing extra, and none of them requires anything we sell.
Several of our headlines invite you to test yourself at home: count your pulse for ten seconds, time yourself on four flights of stairs, take "the 10-second test". None of them is a validated test, and we cannot give you a real one, because a real check does not work that way.
What a home count can honestly tell you. Three things, and only these:
Of the eight components in the American Heart Association's own scoring, four are daily habits and four are measurements of the body that are best checked with a clinician. [28] No count, stopwatch or quiz on an advertising page can stand in for those.
If our headline worried you, take the worry to your own clinician at your next visit, or sooner if something has changed. If it was only a startling headline, the reassurance you want cannot come from a test in an advertisement, including ours.
If we only had one section to be useful in, this would be it. None of these is a supplement or a list of three foods, and none of them can be sold to you by us.
These are unglamorous. They cannot be delivered in a headline, they take years, and they are, by a wide margin, the most useful things on this entire page.
What each ingredient printed on the label of Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract is, what it is traditionally used for, and what the cited research says, including who was in each study, at what amount, for how long, and what each study actually measured. One serving is one squeeze of the bulb (0.7 ml) in two ounces of water or juice, two to four times a day, between meals. The panel, line by line: serving size 0.7 ml, about 42 servings per bottle; proprietary extract blend, 642 mg (Daily Value not established): hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) flowering aerial parts and berry, night-blooming cactus (Selenicereus sp., sold as Cactus grandiflorus) stem, motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) flowering aerial parts, and ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizome; extraction rate, 140 mg of fresh herb and 98 mg of dry herb per 0.7 ml; other ingredients, certified organic cane alcohol (54 to 64%) and distilled water. Three plain notes on that panel. First, the four plants sit inside one blend with one weight, so the label does not say how much of each serving is hawthorn, cactus, motherwort or ginger, or how the hawthorn splits between flowering tops and berry. Second, the extraction rate is the amount of plant that went into each serving: some plants are extracted fresh, like the cactus, and some dried, which is why the label gives two weights. Third, the maker's listing shows 12 reviews while the top of the same page says 63, and the larger four-ounce size was sold out when we read it. No study has tested these four plants together, or this extract.
The dried flowering branches of the hawthorn: lobed leaves with clusters of small white flowers, cut in spring. It is the part of the plant described in the European Pharmacopoeia, which requires at least 1.5% total flavonoids in the dried material.[31]
Traditional and everyday use. Used as a tea and a liquid extract in European herbal practice; the European Medicines Agency classes it as a traditional-use herbal product, based on at least 30 years of use rather than on clinical trials.[3]
What the research says. Its main compounds are flavonoid glycosides (vitexin, vitexin-2''-rhamnoside, hyperoside, quercetin), catechin, epicatechin and procyanidins.[31] The European regulator found the clinical evidence insufficient and noted a lack of clinical studies.[3] How the body handles these compounds is largely unknown: in cell and animal studies the leaf flavonoids were poorly absorbed.[32] [33] In laboratory tests on isolated animal blood vessels, two hawthorn compounds widened the vessels only at concentrations far above those measured in human blood.[34] For comparison, the European monograph lists a tea of 1 to 2 g of dried leaf and flower per cup, up to four cups a day.[1] We make no claim beyond this.
Amount per serving in Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract. — (part of a 642 mg four-herb blend) (first on the label, declared together with the berry; certified organic and/or responsibly wildcrafted; harvested each spring in France and Chile)
Good to know. Side effects can include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and muscle aches.[4] The European monograph does not recommend it during pregnancy or breastfeeding or for children.[1] If you take anything daily, especially for the heart and circulation, show the label to your pharmacist first.
The small red fruit, or "haw," of the hawthorn, a thorny shrub or tree of the rose family that grows in temperate regions of Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. The berries ripen in the fall, when they are harvested.
Traditional and everyday use. Eaten as a food by Native American tribes and for centuries in Europe and China, where the fruit is known as shanzha.[2]
What the research says. The berry and the leaf are chemically different: in a North American hawthorn, the leaves held several times more hyperoside than the fruit and a family of vitexin flavones that the fruit held only in traces, while both held epicatechin and procyanidins.[35] In a European hawthorn, the unripe fruits held the most phenolic compounds and the ripe fruits more sugars.[36] These are analyses of the plant, not studies in people: we found no trial of the berry alone in healthy adults, and we make no claim for it. The National Institutes of Health says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses.[4]
Amount per serving in Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract. — (part of a 642 mg four-herb blend) (declared together with the flowering tops; harvested each fall in the Pacific Northwest)
Good to know. Side effects can include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and muscle aches, and little is known about use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.[4] Hawthorn is sold for the heart and circulation: if you take anything daily, show the label to your pharmacist before adding it. Buy it from a maker who names the plant part, because some products sold as "tejocote root" (Mexican hawthorn root) were found to contain a toxic plant.[4]
A cactus from the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, known as queen of the night or night-blooming cereus. The true species, Selenicereus grandiflorus, is rare in cultivation, and many plants sold under that name are other species or hybrids; the label here names only the genus (Selenicereus sp.).
Traditional and everyday use. Written about in British and American medical and homeopathic journals of the 1880s and 1890s; here it is extracted fresh from the stem.
What the research says. We found no modern studies of this plant in people. We make no claim for it here.
Amount per serving in Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract. — (part of a 642 mg four-herb blend) (responsibly wildcrafted; naturalized in the U.S. (Florida); fresh (undried))
Good to know. Little is known about its effects. The maker's own label asks for caution in anyone who takes something daily for the heart: if you do, show this label to your pharmacist first. Seek expert advice before use during pregnancy (label).
A perennial herb of the mint family, native to Central Asia and southeastern Europe and now found worldwide. The herbal ingredient is the flowering tops, dried or fresh.
Traditional and everyday use. Used as a tea and a liquid extract in European herbal practice; the European Medicines Agency accepts it only on the basis of traditional use, with a tea of 1.5 to 4.5 g of the cut herb per dose for adults.[37]
What the research says. Beyond its traditional-use status in Europe, we found no clinical evidence in healthy adults. We make no claim for it here.[37]
Amount per serving in Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract. — (part of a 642 mg four-herb blend) (certified organic; not for use during pregnancy)
Good to know. Must not be used during pregnancy, and it is not recommended for anyone under 18.[37] If you take anything daily, especially for the heart and circulation, show the label to your pharmacist first.
The knobbly underground stem of a tropical plant native to the warm parts of Asia, now grown across South America, Africa and the Middle East, and one of the most familiar spices in the world. In supplements it appears as dried pieces of root or as a liquid extract of the root.
Traditional and everyday use. Used in home kitchens and folk practice since ancient times, mostly for the stomach, and the warming spice in Indian chai.
What the research says. The research on ginger concerns the stomach and joint comfort, not memory, attention, the heart or circulation. We make no claim for it here.
Amount per serving in Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract. — (part of a 642 mg four-herb blend) (certified organic; gives the "gingery" taste the maker describes)
Good to know. Can cause abdominal discomfort, heartburn, diarrhea and mouth or throat irritation. If you take anything daily, especially anything that affects clotting, show the label to your pharmacist first.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This information does not constitute medical advice and it should not be relied upon as such. This product is not a substitute for medication or other treatment prescribed by a physician or health care provider. Consult your doctor before starting any dietary supplement.
Set against the headlines that brought you here, this is the complete and honest position.
Things we cannot promise, and that nobody selling you a bottle of extract can:
Things we can say honestly:
No. Those attributions were advertising language, and no named or identifiable expert has endorsed this product.
The label says 98 mg of dried plant and 140 mg of fresh plant per 0.7 ml, all four plants together. Europe's cup of hawthorn tea is 1 to 2 g of dried leaf and flower. [1]
Yes, certified organic cane alcohol at 54 to 64%, about a fortieth of a standard drink per squeeze. [19] Skip it if you avoid alcohol entirely.
The FDA cites 400 mg of caffeine a day as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in most healthy adults. [5] Too much can bring a faster heartbeat and jitters, so keep it earlier in the day.
One small study of 16 women found that milk erased tea's short-term effect on how easily the arm artery widens. [18] One study is not a rule, so drink it the way you enjoy it.
There is no official step number, and 10,000 is popular advice. Set minutes first: 150 to 300 a week of brisk walking or similar. [7] [8]
Fast enough that you can talk but not sing. [26] In healthy adults aged 61 to 85, that began at about 100 steps a minute. [27]
Yes: count for a full minute, or for 30 seconds and double it, and 60 to 100 at rest is considered normal for adults. [12] A count is a count, not a check-up.
The panel prints no caffeine figure. The panel prints no added sugar. The panel prints no sodium line.
Possibly, so take the extract to your pharmacist before the first serving. The label itself asks for caution in anyone who takes something daily for the heart, so if you take anything daily, especially for the heart and circulation, show this label to your pharmacist before the first glass. The liquid is also 54 to 64% cane alcohol.
The label asks for expert advice first, and Europe's motherwort monograph says it must not be used during pregnancy. [37]
in the seller's words, "If you are not satisfied, you can return the product for a replacement or a credit." You must notify the seller within 30 days of purchase to receive a full credit and obtain a return authorization number before sending anything back; it is a replacement or store credit, not a cash refund.
Do not take our word for it: every numbered reference below is a real, published source you can look up. Where a headline and this page disagree, believe this page.
No. Read it, close the tab and never come back, if you like.
These are the sources behind the claims marked with a number above. Most are government guidance, European herbal monographs, laboratory analyses of the plant, or small, short studies. The hawthorn chemistry and absorption studies were done on plants, cells and animals, not on people taking an extract; the tea meta-analysis was written by employees of a tea company; the tea studies measured a short-term widening of the arm artery, not a health outcome; the fact sheets are the governments' own. None of them tested this extract. We have deliberately not cited anything for the claims we describe as exaggerated, because there is nothing to cite.
Citing a study does not mean the study is about this product. The studies above tested one plant, food, drink or ingredient at a time, in other people or in the laboratory, at their own amounts; none of the research tested Heart Health™ Liquid Herbal Extract, and none of it supports it.
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Medical disclaimer. Nothing on this page is medical advice. Do not delay seeking professional advice, and do not stop or change anything a clinician gave you, because of anything you read here. If you are concerned about your heart or your circulation, your own or a family member's, speak to a qualified healthcare professional. In an emergency, call 911.