Alpha CRS+ food supplement dōTERRA | 120 capsules

Grown in North-East Asia, Baikal skullcap develops a bright yellow root that is lifted only after three to four years. That colour comes from baicalin, the flavonoid used as the marker for standardising the extract. The plant side of the formula is built around it.

Green tea leaves are steamed within hours of picking, which halts oxidation and keeps their clear colour. The extract used here is standardised on catechins, the compounds behind the leaf's bitterness. It brings the whole its most pronounced vegetal note.

The seeds are what is left of the harvest once the grapes have been pressed. Dried and then milled, they yield a highly tannic extract, from the same family of compounds that give ageing red wines their astringency. Its red-brown tint is visible in the powder of the capsules.

Frankincense is obtained by scoring the bark of the tree, which beads a gum resin that hardens in the air into amber tears. The dry extract is drawn from it with a solvent, where the essential oil goes through distillation. It therefore keeps the boswellic acids, which the oil does not contain.

The turmeric rhizome is boiled, dried and then ground, a preparation unchanged for centuries in India. Its orange colour comes from the curcuminoids, on which the extract is standardised. The root enters here in dry, concentrated form, a long way from the kitchen spice.