Purely made from plant sources Made from 100% pure plant sources, Rhenofax™ only contains the herbs listed below, with nothing else added. It does not contain any chemicals, colors, fragrances, preservatives, animal sources or GM compounds.   Swertia Chirata, Hum 15.90mg According to Ayurveda, this herb is a bitter tonic, stomachic. It is useful in liver disorders, eyes, heart. A strongly bitter tonic it is an excellent remedy for a weak stomach, especially when this gives rise to nausea, indigestion and bloating and it has also been shown to protect the liver. It is best known as the main ingredient in Mahasudarshana churna, a remedy containing more than 50 herbs. It also contains xanthones which are reputedly effective against malaria and tuberculosis, and also amarogentin, a glycoside that may protect the liver against carbon tetrachloride poisoning. The whole plant is an excellent drug for intermittent fevers, skin diseases intestinal worms, bronchial asthma, burning of the body, regulating the bowels. The root of the plant is useful in checking hiccups and vomiting. It is used in the liquor industry as a bitter ingredient. Fumaria Officinalis, Linn 15.90mg Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory or Earth smoke) is the most common species of the genus Fumaria in Western and Central Europe. It is an herbaceous annual plant, which grows erect, with stalks about 10 to 50 cm long. The fruit is an achene. It contains alkaloids, potassium salts, and tannins. It is also a major source of fumaric acid. The "smoky" or "fumy" origin of its name is uncertain. It was traditionally thought to be good for the eyes, and to remove skin blemishes. In modern times herbalists use it to treat skin diseases, and conjunctivitis; as well as to cleanse the kidneys. Tephrosa Purpurea 15.90mg Small shrub with stems covered with hairs, Leaves alternate, with 11-17 leaflets, Leaflets, narrowly elliptic, Flower Pedicel with hairs, Fruit (immature) flattened, slightly curved, with several seeds. The plant yields gum, a trace of albumen and coloring material, ash containing a trace of manganese, brown resin and chlorophyll and a principle allied to quercetin or querritrin and glucoside rutin. Sphaeranthus Indicus, Linn 15.90mg A much branched, strongly-scented annual with winged stem and the wings toothed. Leaves obovate-oblong, narrowed at the base, dentate and serrate. Flowers compound heads, globose avoid, Flowering time November to January in Indian conditions; glandular hairy. Achene staled. According to Ayurveda, this herb is hot, laxative, digestible, tonic, fattening, alterative, anthelmintic and alexipharmic. It is used in insanity, tuberculosis, indigestion, bronchitis, spleen diseases, elephantiasis, anaemia, pain in uterus and vagina, piles, asthma, leucoderma, dysentery, vomiting, hemicrania, etc. Methyl chavicol, a-ionone, d-cadinene, p-methoxy cinnamaldehyde as major constituents and a-terpinene,citral, geraniol, geranyl acetate, b-ionene, sphaerene as minor constituents of essential oil have been identified. Artemisia Vulgaris, Linn 15.90mg Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort or common wormwood) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia with names containing mugwort. It is also occasionally known as Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, or St. John's Plant (not to be confused with St John's wort). It is native to temperate Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but is also present in North America where it is an invasive weed. It is a very common plant growing on nitrogenous soils, like weedy and uncultivated areas, such as waste places and roadsides. Zizyphus Vulgaris, Lamk 15.90mg Zizyphus vulgaris, originally a native of Syria, was introduced into Italy in the reign of Augustus, and is now naturalized in Provence, and particularly in the islands of HyŠres, where the berries are largely collected when ripe, and dried in the sun. The trees average 25 feet in height and are covered with a rough, brown bark. They have many branches, with annual thorny branchlets bearing alternate, oval-oblong leaves of a clear green color, with three to five strongly-marked, longitudinous veins. The small flowers are pale yellow and solitary. The fruit is a blood-red drupe, the size and shape of an olive, sweet, and mucilaginous in taste, slightly astringent. The pulp becomes softer and sweeter in drying, and the taste more like wine. They have pointed, oblong stones. Terminalia Chebula 15.90mg The dry nut's peel is used to cure cold-related nagging coughs. The bark/peel of the nut is placed in the cheek. Although the material does not dissolve, the resulting saliva, bitter in taste, is believed to have medicinal qualities to cure cold related coughs. Its fruit has digestive, anti-inflammatory, anthelmentic, cardiotonic, aphrodisiac and restorative properties and is additionally beneficial in flatulence, constipation, piles, cough and colds. Cassia Absus, Linn 15.90mg Cassia absus is a herb common in India It is found in mainly in western parts of India. This plant is a member of Caesalpiniacea plant family. This is a suffruiticose, eract herb with a height of about 2 meters, clothed with white pubescnce. The eaves are about 5 cms. long, the leaflets are ovate-oblong or ovate elliptic. The flowers are pale yellow or tinged red, in terminals and leaf opposed in long racemes. The pods are linear lanceolate, dark brown and glabrascent. The seeds are 3 to 5 shining black,smooth, glabrous, compressed and oblong. The flowering season is August to December. In Ayurveda the leaves and the seeds are used for treatment of anemia, asthma and hiccups. Melia Azadirachta,Linn 15.90mg Under the name of Neem it grows luxuriantly in Bengal, where it was known to the author. It grows from 30 to 50 feet high, leaves bipinnate, large bunches of lilac flowers agreeably perfumed. In Southern France and Spain it is found growing in avenues. It is said to be a native of China. The bark should be new and is a rusty grey colour, inside yellow and foliated, coarsely fibrous, no odour, powerfully bitter and less astringent than the outer coarser bark, if taken from old roots the outer crust must be taken off. The oil obtained from the fruit is used for burning, that from the bark is used medicinally and is anthelmintic and emetic; it is applied externally for rheumatism. The decoction of Azadirachta is said to be cathartic and in large doses slightly narcotic; it is also supposed to have febrifuge properties, it is used as a remedy for hysteria. The Hindu considers it a stomachic and taps it for toddy. The name Bead Tree is derived from the hard nuts which are used for making rosaries. An ointment to destroy lice is made from the pulp and is also used for scald head and other skin diseases. The oil from the nuts is useful for cramps, obstinate ulcers, etc. Lycopodium, Clavatum 15.90mg It is a spore-bearing vascular plant, growing mainly prostrate along the ground with stems up to 1 m long; the stems are much branched, and densely clothed with small spirally-arranged leaves. The leaves are 3-5 mm long and 0.7-1 mm broad, tapered to a fine hair-like white point. The branches bearing spore cones turn erect, reaching 5-15 cm above ground, and have fewer leaves than the horizontal branches. The spore cones are yellow-green, 2-3 cm long and 5 mm broad. The horizontal stems produce roots at frequent intervals along their length, allowing the stem to grow indefinitely along the ground. The stems superficially resemble small seedlings of coniferous trees, though it is not related to these. Berberis Aristata DC. Ext. 15.90mg It is one of the herbs mentioned in all ancient scriptures of Ayurveda. Caraka and Susruta have mentioned it’s different properties along with various used for the treatment of numerous illnesses. As it resembles in its properties to those of haridra, both the herbs have been mentioned together as haridra dvaya, meaning two haridras viz. haridra and daruharidra. Caraka has categorized daruharidra as stanyasodhana – lactode purant, lekhana – a reducing herb, arsoghna – anti – haemorrhoidal, kandughna – anti – haemorrhoidal, kandughna – anti – pruritic and as svedala – promotes sweating, rasayana- rejuvenative. Susruta have mentioned it as ropana – a wound healer The plant is native of the whole range of Himalaya mountains at an elevation 2000 to 3500 metres. It also occurs in Nilagiri range in Southern India . The shrub grows upto 1.5 – 2.0 metres in height, with a thick woody root covered with a thin brittle bark. The leaves are cylindrical, straight, tapering, very sharp, hard, smooth spines. The flowers yellow, numerous, stalked, arranged in drooping racemes. The fruit is a small berry, ovoid and smooth. It flowers in April and May.