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Ester-C® is a unique form of Vitamin C containing naturally occuring metabolites. Ester-C®'s patented manufacturing process neutralizes the pH, making Ester-C® gentle on the digestive system. Ester C with Bioflavonoids is primarily an antioxidant used to prevent infections, bruising, colds & flu, sinusitis, sore throats, blood clots, arthersclerosis, high blood pressure, physical and mental stress, weak immune system, cholesterol levels, liver toxicity and collagen formation. Vitamin C is essential in the formation of body protein and maintaining healthy bones, teeth, skin, cartilage and capillaries. It is a water-soluble vitamin that functions as a powerful antioxidant. By protecting LDL cholesterol from oxidative damage, Vitamin C protects from heart disease. It also plays important roles in wound healing and as a natural antihistamine. This vitamin also aids in the formation of liver bile and helps to fight viruses and to detoxify alcohol and other substances. Rose Hips are packed full of Vitamin C and bioflavonoids that are integral to the promotion of healthy eyes, gums and teeth. Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'The DOG ROSE (R. canina) is a flower of the early summer, its blossoms expanding in the first days of June and being no more to be found after the middle of July. The general growth of the Dog Rose is subject to so much variation that the original species defined by Linnaeus has been divided by later botanists into four or five subspecies. The flowers vary very considerably in colour, from almost white to a very deep pink, and have a delicate but refreshing fragrance.' 'The scarlet fruit, or hip (a name that has come down from the Anglo-Saxon hiope), is generally described as 'flask-shaped.' It is what botanists term a false fruit, because it is really the stalk-end that forms it and grows up round the central carpels, enclosing them as a case; the real fruits, each containing one seed, are the little hairy objects within it. Immediately the flower has been fertilized, the receptacle round the immature fruits grows gradually luscious and red and forms the familiar 'hip,' which acts as a bait for birds, by whose agency the seeds are distributed.' 'At first the hips aretough and crowned with the fivecleft calyx leaves, later in autumn they fall and the hips are softer and more fleshy. The pulp of the hips has a grateful acidity. In former times when garden fruit was scarce, hips were esteemed for dessert. Gerard assures us that 'the fruit when it is ripe maketh the most pleasante meats and banketting dishes as tartes and such-like,' the making whereof he commends 'to the cunning cooke and teethe to eate them in the riche man's mouth.' Another old writer says: 'Children with great delight eat the berries thereof when they are ripe and make chains and other pretty geegaws of the fruit; cookes and gentlewomen make tarts and suchlike dishes for pleasure.' 'The Germans still use them to make an ordinary preserve and in Rus
Manufacturer: Nature's Answer SKU: 40476 Category: Capsules, Extracts, A-H-Antioxidants
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