Suggested Use: As a dietary supplement, adults take 2 tablets two or three times a day with a full glass of water, or as directed by your health professional.
Padma Basic -
This is the Original Padma Formula by Econugenics, NOT Source Naturals. Tibetan formula Padma Basic® contains 20 healing natural ingredients for supporting healthy circulation, immune function and antioxidant protection.
Padma Basic® has been developed primarily for the baby boomer generation, now at their peak and facing an unprecedentedly long span of twilight years. It is important that their extended years will be healthy and active. Padma Basic® will help this generation stay active longer by promoting healthy circulation and maintaining healthful vigor throughout the life cycle. The natural plant substances in Padma Basic® help counteract the detrimental effects of long term unbalanced nutrition or a stressful lifestyle.
Padma Basic® is composed of 21 selected botanical and mineral ingredients that function together to balance the body. As well as promoting good circulation, particularly in the legs, the herbal formula generally promotes good health by supporting the immune system and providing antioxidant activity.
The Basis of Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Tibetan doctors believe that health depends on the balance of energies in the body, and that illness results from imbalances. If changes in diet and behavior don't correct imbalances, they are treated with medications compounded from plants and minerals. While Tibetan beliefs about health and illness may differ from Western health concepts, many of the herbal supplements used in Tibetan medicine have been shown to work through modern scientific research.
Unlike western biochemical science's emphasis on a single active ingredient, Tibetan herbal formulas cannot be reduced to the action of a single molecule or of one particular plant or mineral's chemical contribution. When plants' and minerals' unique constituents and chemicals are carefully blended together, they combine to create a vast information pool that can then unlock bodily functions on many different levels. The combined action of all these ingredients produces a greater total impact than just the sum of the single ingredients.
Bridging East and West
Tibetan medicine contains much that is of great value to western doctors. The Tibetans have accumulated a prodigious store of knowledge from centuries of experiments and experience with defining which blends of carefully selected ingredients acting together will yield a desired effect. Multi-component formulas have been developed to support many of the body's normal functions and to restore harmony.
"The purpose of Padma Inc. is to bring knowledge of Tibetan medicine to the west," said Schwabl, CEO of the parent company in Switzerland. "Living in the west, we need safe and proven formulas, convenient and safe packaging and information. PADMA also wants to open western minds to Tibetan medicine. We hope Tibetan clinics will soon open in the west. To achieve understanding in the west, Padma conducts and supports research that proves efficacy in a western scientific way and also sheds light on the mechanisms by which these formulas work." Producing herbal products for contemporary needs
Jackie Wootton, Executive Director of The Alternative Medicine Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, comments, "The complex multi-component herbals produced by Padma, Inc. bridge the divide between very old and very new. They produce whole plant natural formulas to the best modern manufacturing standards for the world community while adhering closely to centuries-old philosophical traditions."
"We are still linked to the tradition of Tibetan medicine," continues Schwabl. "We still use Tibetan techniques with taste and smell as well as western medical techniques. We do both to obtain purest quality. Through clinical studies, we produce models of how Tibetan medicine works."
Padma Research
The Padma company has dozens of published articles in international scientific peer reviewed journals, spanning two decades. Publications include human clinical trials, in vitro and in vivo experiments.
Most of the Padma formulas are supported by the results of rigorous, modern scientific studies. At the First International Congress on Tibetan Medicine in Washington, DC, November 1998, several researchers gave papers reporting independent studies of the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of Padma products.
Independent scientific research from Europe and Israel demonstrates that the bioflavonoids, polyphenols, and other antioxidant substances in Padma Basic® play a key role in enhancing the structure and function of arteries, including the coronary arteries. Further preliminary results suggest that Padma Basic® has anti-platelet activity and an ability to improve fibrinolysis, a function that helps maintain healthy blood clotting and promotes circulation. In addition, studies show that Padma Basic® protects blood lipids from oxidation, important for the maintenance of long term cardiovascular health.
Quality and Purity Guaranteed:
Padma Basic® is processed and tested in strict accordance with modern manufacturing practices to ensure quality, purity, and potency of each and every tablet.
Naturally sourced ingredients
No artificial preservatives, colors, or stabilizers
Clinically researched
laboratory tested
State-of-the-art quality control
The Swiss company and the method of production:
Padma Basic® is produced in a specialized plant by the Swiss company, Padma Inc. The dried and ground natural ingredients are carefully combined and compressed into tablets. Some of the herbs are grown in Switzerland and the Himalayan Region in conformity with organic farming principles, others are harvested in other regions of Europe, and in India. Thorough quality control ensures that only clean, top quality, uncontaminated plants and plant substances are used.
Padma Inc. is a well-established company and a respected household name in Switzerland where Padma products have been used for over 25 years. Padma's good reputation has spread through Europe, where its products are widely available.
History of the product:
In the Tibetan tradition, health and wellness are described in terms of maintaining the equilibrium of the body. The Tibetans speak of the "harmony of nature's organisms." This includes not just the relationship between the different organs of the body but also the complex inter-relationships between humans, the animal world, and the plant kingdom. Circumstances, such as diet, life style, mental and seasonal conditions can disturb this balance.
The particular combination of herbs in Padma Basic® is used, according to this ancient practice, to support our body's natural mechanisms and to help maintain good health. Tibetan formulas are described as stimulating the body with gentle impulses aimed at supporting the body's natural state of health. It is not one specific ingredient but, rather, the appropriate combination of many ingredients that yields the desired balancing effect.
An interview with Herbert Schwabl
"We need to help people become aware of the benefits of Tibetan formulas. An important conceptual benefit inherent in Padma's bridging efforts is that western and eastern healing traditions can work together," continues Schwabl.
"Tibetan doctors know that health is a balance in the body, a balance of energy flows and in cases of imbalance, they use combinations of ingredients to restore balance. Tibetan medicine uses descriptive phrases that are colorful and quite poetic by western standards. When one goes behind this language, there are important medical facts being related that need to be translated. Padma Inc. seeks to help western doctors take information out of this body of knowledge. We don't want to reduce Tibetan medicine but to make it more understandable," Schwabl concludes.
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