You want a daily botanical, not a clinical dose
The six names are a coherent set for drainage and circulation. If a gentle daily habit is what you are after, the list is defensible. Inference from the ingredient list.
Who Is Lymph Flow For?
Adults 18 and over, per the supplied precautions. The rest of this page says which lines are inferences and which came from the pack.
The supplied answer
In short
Lymph Flow is made for adults 18 and over.
It may suit people who want a gentle daily botanical, prefer drops to capsules, or want an alcohol-free formula.
It may suit you if
You prefer drops to capsules
Two droppers in water, once a day. Nothing to swallow. From the supplied directions.
You avoid alcohol in tinctures
The bottle front says ALCOHOL FREE. What replaced it was not supplied. From the label.
You will read the panel yourself when it arrives
This site cannot read it for you and will not invent it. If you are the kind of buyer who turns the bottle over, you will get more out of this product than this page can give you. Editorial.
It is a poor fit if
You take a blood thinner or an antiplatelet
Horse chestnut and ginger both carry documented interactions, and no amount is declared for either, so nobody can assess the risk against a dose. Pharmacist first. From the monographs.
You need to know what you are taking, to the milligram
You cannot, from what was supplied. If that is a condition of purchase for you, this is not the product. From the missing panel.
You have renal or hepatic impairment
The horse chestnut monograph advises against use. From the monograph.
You are under 18, pregnant or nursing
The supplied precautions restrict it to adults; the rest is the standard advice this site repeats rather than overrides. From the supplied pack.
What it is not
Sources for this page
- Horse Chestnut — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products databaseStandardised seed extract “250 to 312.5 mg (equivalent to aescin 100 mg) twice a day” for chronic venous insufficiency; aescin 20 or 40 mg three times daily. All parts of the plant are potentially toxic, esculin being “the most important toxic principle”; FDA classified it “an unsafe herb”; warfarin interaction through coumarin derivatives.
- Ginger — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“Ginger has been used in clinical trials in dosages of 170 mg to 1 g 3 to 4 times daily”; nausea trials 250 mg to 2 g a day. Anticoagulant and antiplatelet interactions are listed, with the note that “bleeding may occur.”
- FDA 101: Dietary SupplementsU.S. Food and Drug Administration“The FDA does NOT have the authority to approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness, or to approve their labeling, before the supplements are sold to the public.”