Genestra – Candicin

Essential oils from ginger and wormwood for relief of digestive disturbances
• Traditionally used in Herbal Medicine to help relieve digestive upsets such as flatulence and abdominal bloating
• Provides 90 mg each of ginger essential oil and wormwood oil per daily dose
• Also includes 190 mg of oregano flowering tops essential oil, 90 mg of clove leaf essential oil and 40 mg of evening primrose seed oil per daily dose

Candicin is a combination of natural oils that are traditionally used to help alleviate digestive disturbances. Gastrointestinal upsets, including flatulence and abdominal bloating, may result from improper gastric or intestinal transit of food.¹ Ginger contains oleoresin, which is responsible for its pungent odour.² Elements in this resin, including shogaols, gingerols, and zingerone, can bind receptors on endocrine cells in the GI tract and pancreas.² This results in increased gastric and bile secretion, gastric motility, and gastric emptying.² Pancreatic digestive enzymes are increasingly released, which decreases the transit time through the intestines and helps relieve digestive upsets.² Ginger also increases the flow of blood to the mucosal layer of the stomach, and inhibits serotonin receptors, which are responsible for mediating nausea.² Wormwood oil contains absinthin, an extremely bitter compound.³ Similar to the pungent ginger, bitter compounds can bind receptors on endocrine cells in the GI tract and pancreas, synergistically enhancing gastric secretion, motility, and pancreatic digestion.²

REFERENCES
1. Houghton, LA, Whorwell, PJ. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2005; 17: 500_511.
2. Valussi, M. Functional foods with digestion-enhancing properties. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 2012; 63(S1): 82-89.
3. Levit, A, Nowak, S, Meyerhof, W, Behrens, M, Peters, M, Niv, MY. FASEB Journal. 2014; 28(3): 1181-1197.

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