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Alfalfa
Overview
The easy way to get nutritious greens!
Alfalfa roots grow deep, providing the plant with a rich source of nutrients not always found at the ground’s surface.
While alfalfa is best known as an ideal food source for cattle, there’s far more to it than just being beneficial for raising a good beef herd.
Alfalfa is packed with nutrients, including cleansing chlorophyll, antioxidants, vitamin C, and minerals like calcium, potassium, iron and zinc.
Plus, alfalfa contains a ton of enzymes, which help break food down quicker and distribute the minerals and other healthy ingredients to your body more quickly than digesting food without alfalfa.
Alfalfa aerial parts have been used traditionally as a general tonic to help maintain well-being.
Modern herbalists consider alfalfa to be very nutritive and use it to help build the blood and promote overall health.
Originating in the Middle East, alfalfa is thought to be the first plant grown strictly for forage; it's been cultivated for over 2,000 years as a nutritive food for people and livestock such as cattle.
Ancient Romans spread cultivation of alfalfa throughout Europe by conquest, and it has since spread throughout the world.
Peoples of the world have used its leaves, sprouts and seeds for traditional remedies.
Benefits
- Provides vital nutrients & trace minerals.
- Supports healthy digestion.
- Supports cleansing processes.
How It Works
This dark green plant with small, purplish flowers was traditionally used for the urinary system. Its nickname "Purple Medick" no doubt is a nod to its colorful flowers and its Latin name Medicago sativa.
On a broad level, alfalfa supports healthy, enriched blood, due in part to its natural iron content.
Alfalfa may also increase white blood cells that help to clean the blood of cellular debris, which in turn, helps cleanse the liver.
Since the liver processes all the toxins in the blood and rids them from the bloodstream, cleaning your blood before it enters the liver is an obvious step to improving your overall health.
In addition, alfalfa provides minerals that are vital for maintaining strong bones and connective tissues, as well as vitamin K, which is crucial for calcium absorption and may help reduce calcium loss in the urine, leading to stronger bones.
Plus, alfalfa provides a strong alkaline effect on the body and may help promote proper hydration.
Other major benefits of alfalfa include detoxifying the urinary tract, encouraging regular bowel movements, maintaining normal-range blood sugar levels, promoting a healthy inflammatory response, and supporting the pituitary gland, which is an essential part of brain health.
Ingredients
Alfalfa aerial parts.
Quality
Nature’s Sunshine Quality Assurance staff sources the world's purest ingredients, no matter where they are grown, to ensure the active nutrients are delivered just as nature intended.
Better ingredients mean better products…so you can get back to feeling the power of nature!
Recommended Use
Take 2 capsules with a meal three times daily.
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