The Healer Tea

Supporting the health and integrity of your gut lining is essential, especially when it comes to maintaining a healthy inflammatory response within the GI tract and immune system. 

The importance of proper permeability and intestinal lining integrity is two-fold: a) healthy permeability ensures that the gut lining can let the right things in helping us to absorb minerals and nutrients from the foods we consume. b) proper permeability also allows the gut to keep the right things out: preventing toxins, allergens, and microbes from gaining access to the bloodstream. Incredibly, despite the need for an essentially impenetrable defense, the intestinal lining is only one cell thick to account for the need to accommodate the exchange of nutrients and hydration. Thus, protecting and supporting this mucosal lining is even more crucial in today’s world -- especially in the face of the many assaults, our guts may be exposed to, from processed foods to pollutants and irritants. 

Mucilaginous menders like Calendula and Marshmallow help to lubricate and protect the gut lining, maintaining intestinal integrity providing deeply restorative support for those who need it most. By providing optimal soothing and repairing gastrointestinal support, this blend promotes healthy bowel function, the normal repair of the GI mucosal lining, proper intestinal function, and healthy nutrient absorption.*

We’ve all had to deal with dry skin externally on our body and face during an especially dry winter that no skincare regimen seems to even touch… but what happens when the skin inside of us becomes parched and dehydrated, too? While this may sound like a strange concept, the same epithelial cells that make up your skin can be actually found in the lining of your intestines. 

If you’re reading this right now and realize it’s been a minute since you’ve had a sip of water, you’re not alone — it’s extremely common to experience a dry ‘tissue state’ within the intestinal tract due to hydration habits, microbiome imbalances, mineral status, and under-functioning digestive health as a whole due to processed foods, gut irritants, allergens, pollutants and more. 

When it feels like no matter how much water you drink, your tissues and cells just aren’t quenched, menders and soothers like Calendula come in to moisturize, rebalance and ‘loosen the soil.’ Think about what happens when you pour liquid on dry, cracking earth. Like the desert, it just runs off, as so much moisture has been drained that it can no longer hold proper hydration. As you moisturize and soothe the gut with healers like Calendula, Marshmallow, and even Plantain Leaf, your cells become able to absorb and respond to the water you drink. 

Plantain Leaf is especially unique, as it contains both mucilage (coating, soothing, protective) and tannins (toning to gut junctions) -- moistening dry, dehydrated tissue while also supporting optimal intestinal integrity.*

• Support for healthy intestinal permeability and mucosal integrity 
• Encourages a healthy inflammatory response within the GI tract 
• Soothes and relieves occasional gas, bloating, and discomfort 
• Promotes and maintains a healthy intestinal lining 
• Fuels and protects intestinal mucous cells 
• Aids gut and microbiome health 
• Provides a healing coating that protects mucous membranes 
• An ideal ally for comfort and support during a microbiome-balancing reset protocol*

While gentle enough to be beneficial for all of us living in today’s modern world, this versatile formula is perfect for: consistent use in your tea rotation as a way to support gut health and digestion through plants in an extremely gentle, loving, and soothing way

someone who is on a gut healing journey and/or lifestyle overhaul looking to support gut health and integrity, those embarking on a functional medicine microbiome balancing protocol, in need of calming and comforting support while in the rebalancing and repair phase digestive support for someone who has a 'dry' tissue state within the gut and could use some mucilage and moisturizing herbs to allow hydration to reach deeper into the cells 

a nightcap after indulging in sweets or foods you love for the sake of balance, when you know you'll need a bit of extra support a supportive, comforting tool when you’re accidentally exposed to a food intolerance or irritant*