Age, poor lighting and eye strain can cause unfortunate changes in our eyes. Lifelong exposure to light may decrease the photoreceptors (light-sensitive nerve cells) in the eye. Sunlight can produce free radicals that break down, or oxidize, the lipids making up the outer segments of photoreceptors. This oxidation eventually damages the retina where visual perception is most acute - and can result in vision loss.
But this process is not inevitable. Studies have shown that bilberry can help maintain normal eye function.
Planetary Formulas premier bilberry compounds provide rich amounts of anthocyanosides, known to support the eyes and deliver potent antioxidant protection.

The Bilberry Alternative
Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is a dark blue, edible fruit, similar to the common blueberry. During World War II, bilberry was used by British bomber pilots, who believed it helped their night vision. Bilberry has been a staple of European herbalism for hundreds of years, and has become one of the most widely used herbs in the United States for supporting vision.
Bilberry is naturally rich in anthocyanosides - a special class of flavonoid that gives the berries their blue pigment. Anthocyanosides are powerful antioxidants with an affinity for connective tissue. Bilberry supports the capillary integrity of the retina, plus the normal production of rhodopsin, a substance in the rods of the retina that is necessary for night vision. Studies suggest bilberry also may help the eyes adapt to variations in light intensity and may increase circulation to the eye’s intricate network of tiny blood vessels.

Bilberry Vision
Bilberry Vision is a powerful bilberry extract, concentrated and standardized to yield 37% anthocyanosides - the same amount used in most modern research and nearly 100 times as potent as regular bilberry. Each tablet delivers 100 mg of this extract, prepared from bilberries harvested in the mountains of Sweden.

Children today live in a stressful world. Over stimulation can affect their behavior and concentration. Calm Child is a special herbal blend, designed to soothe the minds and bodies of children, particularly in their moments of restlessness, anxiety, or stress.

Calm Child combines the soothing botanicals chamomile, lemon balm, and catnip, with the nourishing tonifiers hawthorn, zizyphus, gotu kola extract, and amla. Additional herbs and nutrients, traditionally used by cultures around the world, support alertness and focus in children.
Calm Child is available as a tablet and a great-tasting, alcohol-free liquid. Calm Child is part of the Planetary Formulas line of products that draw on the wisdom of traditional cultures and the new knowledge gleaned from scientific research - providing the best of what modern herbalism and science have to offer.

Helping Your Ultra-Active Child Cope
Television, chemically adulterated and sweet foods, plus the stimulation of everyday life - all can cause high levels of anxiety and excitement for children. Their immature nervous systems are sensitive to stressors, and they have not yet developed the coping skills for expressing frustration or releasing pent-up emotions healthfully. All this can affect their ability to learn and impede the development of positive social skills. Planetary Formulas can help with Calm Child: a safe and natural product that soothes and relaxes ultra-active kids.

How Calm Child Works
Calm Child helps counter the effects of over stimulation. It works in two important ways to help cultivate a centered sense of well-being and confidence for children.

• Lemon balm and chamomile are legendary for gently easing the effects of overstimulation.
• Chinese zizyphus, gotu kola, amla, and hawthorn berry deeply tonify the child’s system, lessening sensitivity to stressors.

Children today live in a stressful world. Over stimulation can affect their behavior and concentration. Calm Child is a special herbal blend, designed to soothe the minds and bodies of children, particularly in their moments of restlessness, anxiety, or stress.

Calm Child combines the soothing botanicals chamomile, lemon balm, and catnip, with the nourishing tonifiers hawthorn, zizyphus, gotu kola extract, and amla. Additional herbs and nutrients, traditionally used by cultures around the world, support alertness and focus in children.

Calm Child is available as a tablet and a great-tasting, alcohol-free liquid. Calm Child is part of the Planetary Formulas line of products that draw on the wisdom of traditional cultures and the new knowledge gleaned from scientific research - providing the best of what modern herbalism and science have to offer.

Helping Your Ultra-Active Child Cope
Television, chemically adulterated and sweet foods, plus the stimulation of everyday life - all can cause high levels of anxiety and excitement for children. Their immature nervous systems are sensitive to stressors, and they have not yet developed the coping skills for expressing frustration or releasing pent-up emotions healthfully. All this can affect their ability to learn and impede the development of positive social skills. Planetary Formulas can help with Calm Child: a safe and natural product that soothes and relaxes ultra-active kids.

How Calm Child Works
Calm Child helps counter the effects of over stimulation. It works in two important ways to help cultivate a centered sense of well-being and confidence for children.

• Lemon balm and chamomile are legendary for gently easing the effects of overstimulation.
• Chinese zizyphus, gotu kola, amla, and hawthorn berry deeply tonify the child’s system, lessening sensitivity to stressors.

Research has shown that deglycyrrhizinated licorice supports and promotes a healthy stomach lining and intestinal flora. Glycyrrhizinic and glycyrrhetinic acids, associated with high blood pressure, have been removed. Planetary Herbals professional strength DGL reflects dosages and preparations used in clinical studies.

In the herbal traditions of Europe, elderberry has been used since antiquity as a wine, a syrup and a warming winter cordial. The berries are rich in bioflavonoids and anthocyanins, a unique class of constituents known for their beneficial effect on cellular function, and particularly for their role in maintaining the integrity of capillary walls. Planetary Herbals' delicious ELDERBERRY SYRUP captures these unique compounds, uniting age-old tradition with modern science to support natural defenses.

Premier Horse Chestnut Compounds
Support for Healthy Legs

Word is spreading in the United States about the benefits of horse chestnut-a traditional botanical widely used in Europe to support vein integrity, especially in the legs. Planetary Formulas offers three scientifically advanced horse chestnut products: Horse Chestnut Vein Strength™, Full Spectrum™ Horse Chestnut and Horse Chestnut Cream. These products were developed in light of the latest advances in modern pharmacological research and the clinical experience of one of the world’s foremost herbal authorities, Michael Tierra, L.Ac. An acupuncturist, herbalist and author, Michael integrates classic Western, Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal formulations with the knowledge gained from modern research and more than 30 years of clinical experience. The result - three premier horse chestnut compounds, unsurpassed for dependability and consumer satisfaction.

Centuries of Use
Horse chestnut’s botanical properties were first described by Italian medical botanist Mathiole in 1565, and the plant was widely used throughout Europe by the 18th century. In 1896, a French researcher, Artault de Vevey, reported on horse chestnut’s benefits for the health of blood vessels.

Clinical Studies Document Horse Chestnut’s Benefits
Today a growing body of research is confirming horse chestnut’s benefits for circulatory health-turning horse chestnut into one of the top ten best-selling herbs in Europe. Horse chestnut’s benefits are associated with a variety of constituents, but especially with a group of saponins collectively known as
aescin.Horse chestnut is also a valuable source of bioflavonoids, including the subclass of flavonoids known as proanthocyanidins, renowned for their antioxidant activity. When taken internally, research has shown horse chestnut’s constituents to strengthen the capillaries (the minute blood vessels that connect arteries and veins), support normal blood flow, and support the normal exchange of fluids through cell membranes.

Horse Chestnut Cream
Horse Chestnut Cream combines a concentrated extract of horse chestnut seed and bark extract (20% aescin) with additional renowned astringent tonifiers and circulatory herbs, such as butcher’s broom, witch hazel, white oak and myrrh. An advanced liposome delivery system is used to support tonification and deep moisturizing.
Internal use of Full Spectrum Horse Chestnut or Horse Chestnut Vein Strength, in conjunction with the external use of Horse Chestnut Cream, provides a dynamic two-step approach to vein support.

Premier Horse Chestnut Compounds
Support for Healthy Legs

Word is spreading in the United States about the benefits of horse chestnut-a traditional botanical widely used in Europe to support vein integrity, especially in the legs. Planetary Formulas offers three scientifically advanced horse chestnut products: Horse Chestnut Vein Strength™, Full Spectrum™ Horse Chestnut and Horse Chestnut Cream. These products were developed in light of the latest advances in modern pharmacological research and the clinical experience of one of the world’s foremost herbal authorities, Michael Tierra, L.Ac. An acupuncturist, herbalist and author, Michael integrates classic Western, Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal formulations with the knowledge gained from modern research and more than 30 years of clinical experience. The result - three premier horse chestnut compounds, unsurpassed for dependability and consumer satisfaction.

Centuries of Use
Horse chestnut’s botanical properties were first described by Italian medical botanist Mathiole in 1565, and the plant was widely used throughout Europe by the 18th century. In 1896, a French researcher, Artault de Vevey, reported on horse chestnut’s benefits for the health of blood vessels.

Clinical Studies Document Horse Chestnut’s Benefits
Today a growing body of research is confirming horse chestnut’s benefits for circulatory health-turning horse chestnut into one of the top ten best-selling herbs in Europe. Horse chestnut’s benefits are associated with a variety of constituents, but especially with a group of saponins collectively known as
aescin. Horse chestnut is also a valuable source of bioflavonoids, including the subclass of flavonoids known as proanthocyanidins, renowned for their antioxidant activity. When taken internally, research has shown horse chestnut’s constituents to strengthen the capillaries (the minute blood vessels that connect arteries and veins), support normal blood flow, and support the normal exchange of fluids through cell membranes.

Horse Chestnut Vein Strength™
Horse Chestnut Vein Strength combines this same standardized horse chestnut extract with an additional 405 mg blend of some of the most widely used traditional herbs for supporting a healthy vascular system. These include butcher’s broom, witch hazel bark, bitter orange fruit, dong quai root and ginkgo biloba leaf extract, standardized to at least 24% ginkgo flavone glycosides.

Kids’ Immune Protect™
Boosts Immune Resistance

Planetary Formulas is proud to introduce Kids’ Immune Protect liquid. This premium botanical combination helps boost resistance at the start of winter and is especially helpful for back-to-school and day care challenges. Kids’ Immune Protect is formulated to support a vitally strong immune defense for children.
Kids’ Immune Protect liquid is based on a classic Chinese formula featuring astragalus, which has been shown in research to support the immune system and enhance T-cell and macrophage activity. Astragalus has been used specifically for promoting the health of children for several hundred years!
Kids’ Immune Protect is part of the Planetary Formulas line of products that draws on the wisdom of traditional cultures, the new knowledge gleaned from scientific research, and the more than 30 years of experience of Oriental Medical Doctor and herbalist Michael Tierra. These formulas provide the best of what modern herbalism and science have to offer.

Kids’ Immune Protect: For a Healthy School Year
Parents: Planetary Formulas offers you this unique botanical formula to help keep your child healthy in school or day care. Kids’ Immune Protect is especially useful at the
start of the cold weather season.
Kids’ Immune Protect is a great tasting liquid, prepared in a naturally sweet glycerine base. This delicious liquid is free of both alcohol and sugar, and is flavored with essential oil of orange.

Astragalus: Valued Chinese Botanical
The centerpiece of Kids’ Immune Protect is astragalus, the primary botanical tonifier used in traditional Chinese herbalism for thousands of years to enhance immune resistance, specifically for children. Modern research validates this traditional use.
Astragalus was shown to support immune resistance in an epidemiological study in China involving 1,000 subjects, who were given the botanical in both oral form and as a nasal spray. Astragalus was also shown to support immune resistance in animal research, which showed positive effects on T-cells and macrophages. Its antioxidant properties were demonstrated in a series of animal and in vitro studies.

Additional Complementary Herbs
In traditional Chinese herbalism, astragalus is most commonly used together with other botanicals. Kids’ Immune Protect combines astragalus with the Chinese tonics, atractylodes and siler. This combination is one of the most relied-upon classic formulas in Chinese herbalism to strengthen immune resistance.