For hundreds of years practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine have prescribed kudzu to help reduce alcohol craving. Animal studies over the past two decades here in the West have shown it effective, as well.  But it wasn’t until last year’s double blind clinical trial at the Harvard Medical Center and McLean University that many addiction specialists took note.

According to lead researcher Dr. Scotty Lucas of McClean Hospital, subjects treated with kudzu root consumed approximately half the amount of alcohol as those who were administered a placebo. 

I’d been following kudzu research for quite a while and it’s why I recommended the herb as an important supplement when I published My Way Out a year and a half ago. More recently, working with a highly regarded herbalist, we developed our own proprietary blend because we could not find a product that matched the exact concentrated extract and isoflavanoid levels as those in the Harvard/McLean study. Many US brands are comprised of fillers or other benign ingredients. We introduced our product several months ago and it’s been selling like crazy - our customers rave about it.

For more about the kudzu study, listen to this interview with Dr. Lucas by NPR’s Michelle Norris. And for details about the study, see this article on our research site. To learn more or to purchase our Kudzu Rescue, visit our health store.

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