Our Ingredients
Get to know what's inside.
Every ASPHODEL product begins with botanical ingredients that have a real history. Here we share what each one is, where it comes from, and how tradition, early research and established fact differ.
Herb
Wormwood
Artemisia absinthium
A silvery, aromatic herb famous for its intense bitterness and its long place in European herbal and culinary history.
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Hull
Black Walnut
Juglans nigra
The green outer hull of a native North American hardwood, rich in tannins and historically prized as a natural dye.
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Flower bud
Clove
Syzygium aromaticum
The dried flower bud of an evergreen tree from the Maluku Islands, and one of the most valuable spices in history.
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Mushroom
Lion’s Mane
Hericium erinaceus
A striking tooth fungus that grows as a cascade of soft white spines, enjoyed in East Asian cooking and widely studied today.
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Mushroom
Reishi
Ganoderma spp.
The glossy, lacquered 'lingzhi' mushroom, celebrated in traditional Chinese texts for roughly two thousand years.
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Mushroom
Cordyceps
Cordyceps spp.
A slender, club-shaped fungus with a storied history on the Tibetan Plateau, now mostly cultivated for modern use.
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Root
Beetroot
Beta vulgaris
A deeply pigmented root vegetable that naturally contains dietary nitrates and betalain pigments.
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Bulb
Garlic
Allium sativum
A pungent bulb cultivated for thousands of years, valued in kitchens and folk traditions around the world.
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Leaf herb
Oregano
Origanum vulgare
A fragrant Mediterranean herb of the mint family, prized in cooking for its warm, peppery leaves.
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Seed
Pumpkin Seed
Cucurbita pepo
The nutrient-dense seed of the pumpkin, eaten for thousands of years and known in Mexican cooking as pepitas.
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Tradition is not the same as evidence
How we write about botanical ingredients
Traditional use tells us how people have used a plant. Preliminary research, by contrast, tells us what scientists are investigating. Finally, established findings are what is well documented. We label each one clearly for all our botanical ingredients, and we never present a botanical as a treatment.
For independent fact sheets, we recommend the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements.