WARMING DIGESTIVE – NERVY, TIGHT CHEST - LUNG CONGESTION

This bark is spicey, slightly bitter and aromatic. Feel the relaxing warmth of Magnolia (Magnolia officinalis) as it makes its way past the heart, lungs and digestion, dispersing congestion and tightness and bringing peace. A beautiful herb to help you unwind from modern life’s overstimulation and reconnect to inner peace and enable the body’s soft, warm flow.

Traditional uses:

• Stress and anxiety – Relieves tension held in the body and mind. Calms the HPA axis, modulates cortisol. Beautiful for nervous irritability, especially with digestive upset or hormonal change.

• Mild Sleep support – Settles restlessness, quiets the racing mind and promotes deeper, more refreshing sleep. Ideal for insomnia from worry or overthinking.

• Hormonal balance – Especially supportive during menopause and PMS. Helps ease tension, mood swings and irritability while helping rebalance metabolic syndrome.

• Digestive comfort – Used to warm, calm bloating, gas, and digestive discomfort linked to tension, underactivity and dampness.

As a tincture …
Take 25 - 75ml per week or 3.5 – 10ml per day (1:2 bark with 60% alcohol) Add to water.

As a tea …
Simmer 1 tsp of bark gently for 10–15 minutes. Blend with calming herbs like lemon balm, chamomile or passionflower for a night-time tea.

Most like:

• Passionflower – Also calms anxiety and helps sleep, but is more cooling and sedative. Magnolia warming, grounding, emotionally balancing and digestive supportive.

• Withania/Ashwagandha – Strengthens stress resilience like magnolia, but more restorative and tonifying over time. Magnolia is faster-acting for acute tension and stress.

• Skullcap – More nervine and directly calming for the nervous system. Magnolia combines calming with hormonal and digestive benefits.

• Cinnamon – warming to the digestive system like cinnamon.

Caution:

Avoid in pregnancy and with sedative medications.
May lower cortisol and blood sugar—monitor if on related medications.