The Passionflower Question: Is 145mg A Meaningful Dose?
Passionflower is the single largest ingredient in Nerve-Salt at 145mg per serving, and it carries the most traditional and modern research precedent of the formula's five botanicals.
Understanding how that dose compares to the research helps set realistic expectations for what it can contribute.
A long traditional history
Passionflower has been used in traditional herbal practice for generations, generally associated with calming and relaxation. This traditional use is documented by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the NIH.
What the research generally studies
Modern human research on Passionflower has generally used extract amounts in a comparable range to what is disclosed here, though exact extraction methods and standardisation vary between studies, which makes direct dose-for-dose comparison imperfect. Passionflower is generally thought to interact with GABA pathways in the brain, an inhibitory neurotransmitter system associated with calming neural activity.
Being precise about what a 145mg dose does and does not tell you
Why it leads the formula
Being the largest single ingredient by weight in Nerve-Salt reflects its role as the primary calming botanical in the formula, with Corydalis and California Poppy Seed contributing complementary, smaller-dosed support.
Applying this to Nerve-Salt
Passionflower's 145mg dose is Nerve-Salt's largest single ingredient, and it is the botanical with the clearest traditional and modern research precedent for nervous system calming in this formula.
