Info: Available in a Choice of 100 Capsules of 440 mg of both Leaves & Hulls, or in 60 capsules of 150 mg of Potent Green Hulls alone
These products are both vermifuges, or herbal remedies used to expel parasitic worms from the intestines, particularly ringworm (Tinea corporis). One is made solely from the hulls that that surround the nuts of the black walnut tree (aka the American or eastern walnut), while the other uses both the hulls and the tree's leaves. In addition to fighting and expelling intestinal parasites, the latter can also help with several skin disorders, due to its many minerals, trace elements and amino acids.
Info: Available in a Choice of 100 Capsules of 440 mg of both Leaves & Hulls, or in 60 capsules of 150 mg of Potent Green Hulls alone
These products are both vermifuges, or herbal remedies used to expel parasitic worms from the intestines, particularly ringworm (Tinea corporis). One is made solely from the hulls that that surround the nuts of the black walnut tree (aka the American or eastern walnut), while the other uses both the hulls and the tree's leaves. In addition to fighting and expelling intestinal parasites, the latter can also help with several skin disorders, due to its many minerals, trace elements and amino acids.
Product Notes:
The hulls (which start out as green fruits, like avocados or large crabapples) surrounding Black Walnuts contains a compound called juglone, which studies have shown can fight various types of bacteria, mildew, and yeast (such as S. aureus, E. coli, Penicillium sp., Aspergillus sp., and Hansenula sp.), and some other types of fungi (Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Microsporum gypseum). And black walnut doesn't just kill them - it helps cart them off: it also has a role in the other type of elimination, by serving as a mild laxative to help evacuate those dead microbes from the digestive tract.
Moreover, the outer coatings (hulls) of walnuts have astringent properties (they can cause tissue to contract) if they have been taken off and dried while still green, which can help prevent bacterial penetration and inhibit discharges, diarrhea and bleeding. This is thanks to their tannin content, which can also reduce pain and swelling, and dry up excessive bodily fluids such as mucous. They are also one of the few land-based sources of iodine from plants.
Related: See Black Walnut tincture formulas from St. Francis Herb Farm.
Ingredients:
Potent Green Hull type, per vegetable capsule:
150 mg Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) hull
Non-medicinal ingredients: Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) leaf and vegetable magnesium stearate in a non‑GMO vegetable capsule composed of vegetable carbohydrate gum and purified water.
Leaf and Hull type, per vegetable capsule:
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) leaf: 352 mg
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) hull: 88 mg
Non-medicinal ingredients: vegetable magnesium stearate in a non-GMO capsule composed of carbohydrate gum and purified water.
Contains no: preservatives, artificial flavour or colour, sugar, milk, starch, wheat, corn, soy or yeast.
Suggested Usage:
Green Hull type: Adults: Take 5 capsules daily or as directed by your health-care practitioner. Duration of use: For occasional use only. Consult your health-care practitioner for use beyond 14 days.
Leaf & Hull type: Take 9 capsules daily or as directed by your health professional. If taking other medications, take this 2 hours before or after those. Consult a health care practitioner for use beyond 6 weeks.
Warnings:
Green Hull type: Consult a healthcare practitioner prior to use if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. Consult a healthcare practitioner if symptoms persist or worsen.
Leaf & Hull type: For adult use only. Keep out of reach of children. Do not take if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have iodine sensitivity, or kidney or liver disease. Consult a health care practitioner prior to using black walnut supplements if you have anemia, gallstones, high blood pressure, or heart/blood vessel disease, or if you are taking atropine, codeine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, theophylline, or thyroid medication drugs. May cause gastrointestinal, upset, arrhythmia, fever, hypertrophy (thyroid), iodism (iodine poisoning), nausea, priapism, allergies, and thirst.
Health Canada Natural Product Numbers: 80107718 for the Green Hull type; 80039629 for Leaf & Hull.
Supporting Science:
Clark, Alice M. et al. “Antimicrobial activity of juglone.” Phytotherapy Research: PTR, 1990.
Wang, Jiayi et al. “Antibacterial Activity of Juglone against Staphylococcus aureus: From Apparent to Proteomic.” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2016.
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