Sun Ten Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang | Peony & Licorice Combination Capsules | 芍藥甘草湯 / Default Title

Peony and licorice have been paired in Chinese herbalism for centuries.

That's commitment. Most partnerships don't last that long, let alone ones involving a root and a flower who never actually met each other until someone ground them both up and put them in a capsule. Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang, which translates to Peony and Licorice Combination, is a traditional formula that's been used in Chinese herbal practice for a long time, and Sun Ten makes it the modern way: freeze dried, concentrated, and stuffed into a capsule so you don't have to boil a root on your stovetop like it's 400 AD.

Quick note on the licorice. It's not the candy. I want to be clear about that up front, because someone is going to open this bottle expecting a Twizzler and be very disappointed. This is licorice root, the herb, which has been used in traditional formulas for a long time specifically because it plays well with other herbs. It's basically the guy in the friend group who gets along with everybody. The peony, meanwhile, just sits there being a flower, which is a strange thing to put in a capsule until you remember that a lot of what we take for granted started as somebody chewing on a plant and reporting back.

What this formula is traditionally about

In traditional Chinese herbal practice, this combination is associated with supporting muscle comfort and a general sense of ease in the body. Modern life involves a lot of sitting, a lot of standing, and occasionally a lot of both in the same day, and your muscles notice. This formula is formulated to support healthy muscle function and a relaxed, comfortable feeling, not to fix anything that's broken, because we're a supplement company and I am contractually and legally obligated to say that sentence.

• Supports muscle comfort and a healthy tension response
• Promotes a relaxed, at-ease feeling in the body
• Supports healthy muscle function during everyday activity
• Formulated using a traditional two-herb combination with a long history of use
• Concentrated capsule format, no root-boiling required

How it fits into your day

You take it, you go about your business, the capsule does capsule things internally where you can't see them and honestly don't need to. That's the whole appeal of a capsule. Nobody wants to watch it work. Sun Ten uses a standardized extraction process so each batch aims for consistency, which matters if you're the type of person who likes knowing what you're actually getting, and if you're not that type of person, it still matters, you just haven't thought about it yet.

This product supports overall wellness as part of a generally healthy lifestyle. It is not a replacement for talking to a doctor, eating vegetables, or stretching before you decide to sprint for a bus at age thirty-eight. It's a well-researched traditional formula in a convenient capsule, made by a company that's been doing this a long time, and that's really the whole pitch. No breakthroughs, no miracles, just peony and licorice, doing what peony and licorice have apparently been doing since before either of us were born.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.