Why Prefer Herbal Liquid Over Tablets? Nowadays We find more herbal products in tablet or capsule forms on the shelves of health food stores than in traditional liquid preparations. It just feels so handy and easy to swallow the capsules instead of taking the herbal liquid products. However, there are considerable advantages of using herbal liquid extracts for your health to maximise their therapeutic effects.

 First, the herbal liquid extracts are the end products of the plants that contain the phytochemicals closest to the original constituents. They go through the minimal processing and thus chances of alteration in therapeutic phytochemicals are low, unlike the tablets or capsules that inevitably go through several steps of manufacturing process. Second, they have higher bioavailability than other preparations. Herbal liquids are absorbed into the blood stream and is the best way of deliveing every health benefits of concentrated herbal constituents into our system in the most effective way. Tablets and capsules need to be disintegrated and dissolved in more absorbable form in the digestive process for their therapeutic phytochemicals to become active. Not all of herbal constituents will be absorbable in some people whose guts are compromised or metabolic function is not optimal. And they contain fillers, colors, binders, coatings etc to give them a clean and colorful apperance. It is advisable to read a lable on the supplements in order to avoid the harmful additives or best recommended to use a high quality supplements from the naturopaths or herbalists.. Practitioner-Only herbal supplements in tablet/capsule forms are available only after a consultation in Mama Herbs.