🌿 Ashwagandha — 100% Withania somnifera

A fundamental Ayurvedic adaptogen, capable of calming the nervous system while simultaneously revitalizing energy, endurance, and focus. It balances the stress response, improves sleep, strengthens immunity, supports the thyroid, elevates mood, and increases physical, mental, and sexual vitality.

How to use

Dosage: 1/8–1/4 teaspoon (300–700 mg)
Preparation: Mix in hot water, plant-based milk, tea, or smoothies
Timing: Night for sleep and calm; morning for stable energy

Key benefits

😌 Calms the nervous system
🔥 Energizing and revitalizing
🧠 Improves focus and mental clarity
🛡️ Immunomodulatory
✨ Powerful antioxidant
💪 Increases physical endurance
🌙 Enhances deep (REM) sleep
🌸 Emotional balance and anti-anxiety
🩺 Supports thyroid, anemia, and iron levels
❤️ Reduces LDL cholesterol and blood pressure
🦴 Strengthens bones and bone density
💗 Improves sexual response and fertility

Detailed description

Ashwagandha, native to India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, is an adaptogenic root from the nightshade family. Its Sanskrit name means “smell of a horse,” alluding to the vital strength it provides, while its Latin name Withania somnifera refers to its calming and sleep-regulating effect.

Its dual action—calm + energy—is possible thanks to its adaptogenic profile: it balances the body according to need. In high stress, it lowers cortisol and facilitates relaxation; in exhaustion, it elevates vitality, mood, and endurance. This capacity makes it one of the most widely used adaptogens for anxiety, stress, chronic fatigue, mild depression, and low performance.

Ashwagandha improves deep (REM) sleep thanks to withanolides and triethylene glycol, which stabilize the nervous system. It is also used in Ayurveda for anxiety, mental hyperactivity, and to “clear the mind.”

The extract of Withania somnifera has been widely studied for:

• Reducing stress, anxiety, and improving mood
• Improving focus, mental clarity, and cognitive performance
• Increasing physical endurance, recovery, and stable energy
• Improving anemia: increases hemoglobin and red blood cells
• Regulating LDL cholesterol and blood pressure
• Strengthening immunity and increasing white blood cells
• Protecting bones and preventing bone loss
• Acting as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic
• Protecting against side effects of antipsychotics and radiotherapy

It also possesses anti-cancer potential in preliminary studies, especially due to withaferin A.

In Ayurvedic medicine, Ashwagandha is one of the most important herbs for sexuality, fertility, vitality, and longevity, being used by both men and women.

Traditional Medicine (Ayurveda)

• Reduces stress and calms the mind
• Improves sleep and emotional stability
• Increases strength, vigor, and energy
• Supports fertility and sexual vitality
• Harmonizes the immune system
• Tonic for longevity and mental balance

Modern Science

• Reduction of cortisol and anxiety
• Improves cognition, focus, and memory
• Increases muscle mass and recovery
• Improves hemoglobin and anemia
• Reduces LDL cholesterol and blood pressure
• Anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects
• Thyroid support (especially mild hypothyroidism)
• Protects nerve and bone cells
• Preliminary cancer studies (withaferin A)

Flavor profile

Bitter – Herbal – Earthy

Ideal for

• Chronic stress or anxiety
• Insomnia or shallow sleep
• Fatigue, exhaustion, or asthenia
• Focus or concentration issues
• Mild hypothyroidism (support)
• Anemia or general weakness
• People with intense training regimens
• Low libido or reduced fertility
• Inflammatory conditions or chronic pain

FAQ

Does it cause sleepiness?
It facilitates deep sleep, but is not a strong sedative.

Is it good for energy?
Yes, it increases stable energy while reducing stress.

How many servings per jar?
25–40 servings.

How can a plant improve two opposite functions at the same time?

Thanks to its adaptogenic properties. Like Rhodiola rosea and Panax ginseng, Ashwagandha balances the body in stress situations. This allows it to calm tension when it intensifies or, conversely, stimulate in cases of depressive episodes. That is why Ayurveda uses its root to regulate immunity and improve sexuality, two functions that are impaired by stress.

• It is considered an adaptogenic remedy, a relatively recent term that defines the capacity a substance provides to help us face an adverse or changing situation, allowing us to cope with it in better conditions. Withania has been shown to be effective in reducing excess stress, a psycho-emotional condition that can lead to other disorders if not kept under control.
• Ashwagandha facilitates sleep and helps you mitigate insomnia. Experiments with mice have demonstrated the action of withanolides and triethylene glycol in stabilizing the REM phase of sleep, during which the deepest and most restorative sleep occurs.
• Due to its nature as a revitalizing plant, also known as "orovale," it has been used to treat mild and occasional depressive and anxious states.
• It is also intended for the treatment of attention deficit due to nervous hyperactivity, although its efficacy is not scientifically proven.
• In India, Ashwagandha is used to clear the mind and to promote mental relaxation.
• It is a prominent revitalizer, intended especially for elderly people, to curb loss of mood and vitality, and to combat asthenia.
• Withania is also intended to combat nervous fatigue, weakness, and anemic states due to iron deficiency. Treatments with Ashwagandha can significantly raise hemoglobin and erythrocyte (red blood cell) levels in anemic people and those convalescing from an illness.
• Its use has been valued for attenuating the side effects of taking antipsychotic medications used in the treatment of schizophrenia, by mitigating the possible increase in lipid and sugar levels that these might generate.
• It is attributed with a stimulating effect on the thyroid gland; it favors the production of thyroid hormones, and it has been tested for the treatment of hypothyroidism, but conclusive studies are lacking.
• Due to its anti-inflammatory and analgesic action, "orovale" has been shown to be effective in relieving rheumatic pain and reducing the inflammatory process in rheumatoid arthritis and incipient arthrosis.
• In India, Ashwagandha is also intended to lower blood pressure in patients with high blood pressure and moderately high blood pressure, and to also decrease LDL cholesterol rates.
• It has also been attributed with a certain immunomodulatory effect, which would favor an increase in leukocytes or white blood cells and strengthen the body against the eventuality of an infection or pathogenic aggression.
• Ashwagandha extracts have been tested, still experimentally, to face certain side effects of radiotherapy. It has been proven that it could reduce myelosuppression, a bone marrow condition that causes a decrease in white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
• Recent studies, echoed by the Spanish Society of Phytotherapy, attest to the efficacy of ethanolic extracts of Withania root in preventing bone loss in experiments with mice. This treatment, applied to humans, could increase bone resistance to fractures, making Withania extracts an interesting support for elderly people and those with bone fragility.
• Extracts of withanolides, especially withaferin A, have been used in clinical trials to test a possible inhibitory effect on the growth of tumor cells in some types of cancer, such as breast and colon, but we have not found conclusive information on this.
• In Ayurvedic medicine, Ashwagandha has also been intended to improve sexual response and favor fertility.

How to Use

Oriental tonics have traditionally been consumed in the form of tea, by making an infusion of the whole plant, its ground form, or the soluble extract.

Our soluble extract presentation only requires hot water to dissolve and obtain the infusion.

Each container yields approximately 25 servings using half a teaspoon of the powdered extract.

Our Ashwagandha is native to India and is 100% organically grown.

Powdered extract presentation. 50g