Gut Restore Tea

Scoop 1 tablespoon of Gut Restore Herbal Tea into your loose-leaf brewing vessel.

Pour 8–12 ounces of freshly boiled, filtered water (195–212°F) over the herbs.

Steep covered for 10–15 minutes.

Gut Restore combines aromatic flowers and leaves with roots, bark, and naturally mucilage-rich herbs. A longer, covered infusion gives the denser botanicals time to steep while allowing marshmallow root and slippery elm bark to develop the soft, soothing quality they bring to the cup.

Strain and enjoy warm.

For a lighter, more aromatic cup, stay toward the shorter end of the steeping time. For a deeper, fuller-bodied infusion, allow it to steep a little longer, giving the roots, bark, flowers, and leaves more time to release their naturally occurring botanical constituents into the water.

One tablespoon • 8–12 oz water • 10–15 minute steep

Gut Restore can become a natural part of your digestive routine, especially around meals. Its combination of aromatic and bitter herbs makes it a thoughtful choice before eating, while the soothing, mucilage-rich herbs make it equally inviting after a meal.

For a more intentional digestive ritual, enjoy a cup 15–30 minutes before a meal, or settle in with one after eating. It can also be enjoyed in the afternoon or evening whenever you want something warm, soothing, and grounded.

There is no need to wait for digestive discomfort to appear. Gut Restore was created as a gentle everyday tea—something you can return to regularly as part of the way you care for your digestive system.

Chamomile Flower — Matricaria recutita — Flower A soft, aromatic herb with a long history of traditional use for digestive comfort, relaxation, and gentle nervous-system support.

Peppermint Leaf — Mentha × piperita — Leaf
A bright, cooling aromatic herb traditionally valued for digestive comfort and helping settle the digestive system.

Marshmallow Root — Althaea officinalis — Root
Naturally rich in mucilage, marshmallow root has traditionally been used as a soothing demulcent for the body's mucous membranes and digestive tissues.

Slippery Elm Bark — Ulmus rubra — Inner Bark
Naturally rich in mucilage, slippery elm has a long tradition of use as a soothing demulcent for the digestive system and mucous membranes.

Gotu Kola Leaf — Centella asiatica — Leaf
A restorative herb traditionally valued in Ayurvedic and Asian herbal practice in connection with vitality, the nervous system, and healthy tissue.

Licorice Root — Glycyrrhiza glabra — Root
A naturally sweet, soothing root with a long history of use in digestive formulas and as a harmonizing herb in traditional herbal practice.

Oregon Grape Root — Mahonia aquifolium — Root
A distinctly bitter root traditionally valued in Western herbalism for digestion and its role as a digestive tonic.rest.

Naturally caffeine-free.

Gut Restore contains no caffeinated tea leaves or other naturally caffeinated ingredients.

Caffeine can increase digestive activity and may not feel comfortable for everyone, particularly when the digestive system is already sensitive. Gut Restore was intentionally formulated without caffeine, allowing the herbs themselves to define the character and purpose of the cup.

That makes it a gentle choice throughout the day, including after meals and in the evening when you may want digestive support without adding another stimulant to your routine.

Caffeine-Free • Gentle • Digestive-Focused

Fresh peppermint and soft floral chamomile lead the aroma, giving the tea a light, familiar herbal character.

The first sip is smooth and gently rounded, with natural sweetness from licorice root balanced by the deeper, earthy character of the roots and bark. Marshmallow and slippery elm contribute a fuller, softer body as the tea steeps, while Oregon grape root brings a subtle bitterness that keeps the cup from becoming overly sweet.

The finish is smooth, earthy, and distinctly herbal, with the freshness of peppermint lingering lightly after the deeper flavors settle.

Fresh • Floral • Smooth • Earthy • Gently Bittersweet

Gut Restore brings together plants with very different relationships to modern digestive research. Some have been investigated in human clinical trials, while others are better understood through their traditional use, plant chemistry, laboratory research, and the physical qualities they develop when prepared in water.

Together, they offer a fascinating look at the many ways plants traditionally associated with digestion and restoration are being explored by modern science.

Chamomile (Matricaria recutita)

Chamomile is one of the most familiar herbal teas in the world, yet its flowers contain a surprisingly complex collection of naturally occurring compounds.

Researchers have identified flavonoids including apigenin, quercetin, and luteolin, along with aromatic constituents such as bisabolol and chamazulene.

Laboratory and experimental research has explored chamomile in relation to inflammatory processes and smooth-muscle activity, providing an interesting modern perspective on its long traditional relationship with digestive comfort and relaxation.

Human research specifically examining chamomile tea for digestion is still developing, leaving plenty of room for researchers to continue exploring this familiar but remarkably complex plant.

Peppermint (Mentha × piperita)

Peppermint has one of the strongest modern digestive research stories in Gut Restore.

Its aromatic compounds—particularly menthol—have been investigated for their relationship with gastrointestinal smooth muscle and digestive physiology. Clinical trials and systematic reviews have also explored peppermint preparations in people with functional digestive complaints.

Much of the human clinical research has used concentrated peppermint oil rather than peppermint leaf tea, giving researchers a way to study some of the plant's aromatic constituents in a standardized form.

Gut Restore approaches peppermint in its more traditional form: the whole leaf, prepared as part of an herbal infusion.

The two perspectives offer different ways of looking at the same remarkable aromatic plant.

Marshmallow Root (Althaea officinalis)

Marshmallow offers a completely different research story.

Rather than being defined primarily by aromatic compounds, marshmallow root is notable for its naturally occurring mucilage-rich polysaccharides.

When the root is exposed to water, these compounds contribute to the characteristic soft, viscous quality associated with demulcent herbs.

Marshmallow root has such an established history of traditional gastrointestinal use that the European Medicines Agency's Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products recognizes its traditional use for mild gastrointestinal discomfort.

Its modern story is rooted in phytochemistry, experimental research, its physical demulcent properties, and generations of herbal use.

For Gut Restore, that is particularly interesting. Sometimes understanding an herb begins not only with identifying its individual compounds, but simply observing what the whole plant does when it meets water.

Slippery Elm (Ulmus rubra)

Slippery elm shares an important physical quality with marshmallow root.

The inner bark contains mucilaginous polysaccharides that become slippery and viscous when hydrated. That characteristic explains both the plant's common name and much of its traditional identity as a demulcent herb.

Modern clinical research on slippery elm itself remains relatively limited, although it has appeared in multi-herb digestive preparations.

Its botanical character, however, is immediately apparent when the herb is prepared.

Together, marshmallow root and slippery elm inner bark create something you can actually experience in the cup: as the herbs hydrate, they contribute a softer, fuller quality to the infusion.

Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica)

Gotu kola brings a restorative dimension to the formula.

Researchers have investigated naturally occurring triterpenes including asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid in connection with inflammatory signaling, collagen formation, and tissue-restoration processes.

Human research involving Centella asiatica has also explored wound healing, with clinical studies examining processes including re-epithelialization, wound contraction, and collagen formation.

That research opens an interesting window into the restorative biology of a plant that has been valued for centuries in Asian herbal traditions.

Within Gut Restore, gotu kola reflects that broader restorative identity—a plant whose traditional history and modern research both continue to inspire questions about tissue resilience and renewal.

Licorice Root (Glycyrrhiza glabra)

Licorice root contains a remarkably diverse collection of naturally occurring constituents, including glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhetinic acid, flavonoids, and polysaccharides.

These compounds have attracted research interest in relation to antioxidant activity, inflammatory signaling, mucosal biology, gastrointestinal function, and intestinal homeostasis.

That work provides a modern perspective on a plant that has appeared in digestive herbal traditions for centuries.

Licorice also has another identity that laboratory research cannot fully capture.

Traditional herbal systems frequently used it as a harmonizing herb within complex formulas—valuing not only the plant itself, but the way it helps soften, balance, and bring other botanicals together.

In Gut Restore, both sides of that story matter.

Oregon Grape Root (Mahonia aquifolium)

Oregon grape root provides the bitter counterpoint to the soothing herbs in Gut Restore.

The root contains naturally occurring isoquinoline alkaloids, including berberine, a compound that has attracted extensive scientific interest.

Researchers have investigated berberine and Oregon grape extracts in relation to microbial activity, oxidative processes, inflammatory pathways, and other aspects of biological function.

Much of this research uses isolated constituents or concentrated extracts, offering scientists a way to examine particular aspects of the plant's chemistry in detail.

Traditional Western herbalism approached Oregon grape from another direction. Its distinctly bitter root became part of herbal practice surrounding digestion and digestive tone long before its individual alkaloids could be identified in a laboratory.

In Gut Restore, Oregon grape is used in a relatively small amount, bringing that bitter botanical dimension to the formula without overwhelming the softer herbs surrounding it.

The Formula as a Whole

What makes Gut Restore particularly interesting is that these seven plants do not all approach digestive care in the same way.

Chamomile and peppermint bring aromatic chemistry and a long relationship with digestive comfort.

Marshmallow and slippery elm bring something almost physical to the infusion—the mucilaginous quality that develops when their plant material meets water.

Gotu kola introduces a restorative botanical whose triterpenes continue to attract research interest around tissue resilience and renewal.

Licorice brings complex phytochemistry alongside centuries of use in digestive and multi-herb formulas.

And Oregon grape root introduces bitterness and alkaloid chemistry into an otherwise predominantly soothing formula.

Modern research gives us increasingly sophisticated ways of looking at these plants. It can identify individual constituents, explore biological pathways, and help us understand some of the chemistry behind plants herbalists have worked with for generations.

Traditional herbal knowledge offers another perspective—one built from observing the whole plant, how it is prepared, how different herbs complement one another, and how those relationships shape a formula.

Gut Restore brings those perspectives together.

It begins with the whole plants—their traditional identities, their botanical qualities, the way they behave in water, and what modern research continues to uncover about them.

Every herb has a reason for being here, but it is the relationship between them that creates the formula.

TThere is a reason we work with whole herbs rather than reducing a plant to a single isolated compound.

A plant contains many naturally occurring constituents that exist together within it. Modern research often isolates individual compounds so they can be studied more closely, and this has taught us a great deal about botanical chemistry and the ways plants interact with biological systems.

But an isolated compound is only one part of a much larger botanical story.

The chemistry of a whole herb is remarkably complex. Different constituents exist alongside one another, sometimes interacting, sometimes contributing entirely different qualities to the character of the plant. Leaves, flowers, roots, and bark each carry their own distinctive combinations of compounds—and water draws out another particular expression of those plants when we prepare them as tea.

Traditional herbal practice has worked with that complexity for centuries.

Gut Restore reflects this way of thinking.

Marshmallow root and slippery elm inner bark bring their naturally mucilaginous qualities. Chamomile and peppermint contribute aromatic compounds alongside their long traditional relationship with digestion. Gotu kola brings its distinctive triterpenes and restorative character. Licorice contributes its own complex chemistry and traditional role as a harmonizing herb, while Oregon grape root introduces bitter compounds and naturally occurring alkaloids.

Each plant brings something different.

None of them needs to do everything on its own.

And when they are combined thoughtfully, the formula becomes more than a list of seven separate ingredients.

A thoughtful herbal formula is not simply a collection of ingredients. It is a conversation between plants.

That idea sits at the heart of traditional herbal formulation: learn the character of each plant, understand what it contributes, and consider how those qualities change when plants are brought together.

Modern botanical science continues to reveal just how chemically intricate medicinal plants really are. Traditional herbalism reminds us to keep looking at the plant as a whole.

Gut Restore lives at the meeting point of those two perspectives.

We work with whole herbs because we value that complexity—and because there is still so much to discover about the remarkable plants that have accompanied people throughout human history.

The herbs in Gut Restore come from several long-standing traditions of herbal practice, including Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the traditional plant knowledge of Indigenous peoples of North America.

Long before digestion was described in terms of enzymes, microorganisms, intestinal barriers, or the gut-brain connection, traditional herbal systems had developed their own ways of understanding digestive health.

Digestion was rarely viewed as an isolated process.

Appetite, nourishment, elimination, emotional state, nervous-system balance, vitality, and the condition of the digestive tissues could all influence the way a person experienced digestion. Herbs were chosen not simply because they were “digestive herbs,” but because of the particular qualities they brought to the person and the formula.

Chamomile has been used for generations as a gentle digestive and calming herb, traditionally prepared as an infusion for everyday digestive comfort. Peppermint has a similarly long history, valued for its aromatic character and its traditional relationship with digestion.

Together they represent an old herbal idea that still feels remarkably relevant: the digestive system and nervous system do not exist independently of one another.

Marshmallow root and slippery elm inner bark bring another traditional approach entirely. Both are naturally rich in mucilage and have long been prepared as soothing demulcents. Their soft, slippery character made them natural choices when herbalists wanted something gentle and soothing rather than strongly stimulating or bitter.

Gotu kola has deep roots in Ayurveda and other Asian herbal traditions, where it has been valued in connection with restoration, vitality, the nervous system, and the mind. In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is known as ji xue cao, carrying its own history and traditional identity within Chinese herbal practice.

Its presence in Gut Restore reflects an important principle of traditional formulation: caring for digestion does not necessarily mean working only with plants historically classified as digestive herbs. Restorative plants can have a place when the intention of the formula extends beyond the immediate moment.

Licorice root is one of the great harmonizing herbs of traditional herbal medicine. It appears across Chinese, Ayurvedic, Middle Eastern, and Western herbal traditions, where it has been valued for its soothing character, natural sweetness, and its ability to bring very different herbs together within a formula.

Oregon grape root carries a distinctly North American history. Species of Oregon grape were known and used by Indigenous peoples of western North America long before they entered Western herbal practice. Later herbalists adopted Oregon grape as a distinctly bitter botanical, incorporating the root into traditions surrounding digestion and tonic herbalism.

These traditions developed long before laboratories could identify mucilage, flavonoids, triterpenes, volatile oils, or alkaloids.

Herbalists learned by observing plants—how they tasted, how they felt, which parts were used, what happened when they met water, and how their qualities changed when they were combined with other herbs.

That history continues to inform the way we think about Gut Restore.

We are not simply combining seven herbs because each one has a list of properties. We are drawing from a much older way of understanding plants: learning their individual character, respecting the traditions that worked with them, and considering how their different qualities can complement one another within a formula.

Soothing herbs sit beside aromatic herbs. Restorative plants sit beside bitters. Flowers, leaves, roots, and bark each contribute something different.

And together they reflect an idea that herbal traditions have understood in many different ways for generations:

Caring for digestion means caring for more than digestion alone.

The plants have their own histories. Gut Restore is our way of bringing some of that knowledge together in a simple daily cup.