Raw materials guide

Nature offers us true miracles. We can find medicinal mushrooms and plants in Nature which contain many bioactive substances and help us deal with a lot of problems.

Acerola

Acerola

Acerola, also called Barbados cherry has its place of origin in South America. Its fruits are similar to those of cherries and...

Alchemilla vulgaris

Alchemilla vulgaris

Lady's mantle, whose Latin name is Alchemilla vulgaris, is a perennial herb growing throughout Europe and parts of Asia

Alder buckthorn

Alder buckthorn

We come accross alder buckthorn quite often during walks in nature. It is a woody plant that normally reaches a height of 3 meters

Apricot kernels

Apricot kernels

Apricots are among the healthiest fruits in general. Only few people know that apricot kernels contains Laetrile...

Aquamin

Aquamin

Aquamin constitutes a unique multi-mineral complex produced from a marine seaweed which contains...

B Vitamins

B Vitamins

The vitamins of group B are important for human organism since they counteract fatigue and...

Bearberry

Bearberry

The bearberry is a well-known herbaceous plant which is familiar particularly to women....

Bearded Tooth

Bearded Tooth

The Bearded Tooth is a delicious edible mushroom with spherical sporocarps. It has been...

Beetroot

Beetroot

The beetroot is a well-known rooting vegetable species with all-round culinary uses but it is also a treasure...

Betaglucans

Betaglucans

Beta-glucans belong to the essential natural substances that have been the subject of many scientific clinical studies

Black chokeberry

Black chokeberry

Also known as aronia, it is a shrub native to North America that came to Europe around the year 1700.

Black Elder

Black Elder

The Black Elder (Sambucus nigra) is a common popular plant which has purifying effects, improves digestion

Blackberry

Blackberry

The Blackberry is a shrub of the Rosaceae family, the fruits of which have a delicious taste and are...

Bladderwrack

Bladderwrack

Bladderwrack is a green-brown to brown seaweed that is found in the surf area, in the shallows of the North and Baltic Seas

Blueberry

Blueberry

We don't have to tell you what this plant looks like, we're sure you all know it well. In summer the fruits

Boswellia serrata

Boswellia serrata

Boswellia is a rare tree which contains substances promoting the human motor control system...

Buckwheat

Buckwheat

Buckwheat is an annual plant that grows to up to half a meter; it is native to China, and it got its name from

Calcium

Calcium

The lime (calcium) is one of the most significant and most abundant minerals in the human body. The majority...

Chaga

Chaga

People have become more and more aware of Chaga also in this country recently. It is a wood-rotting...

Chaste tree

Chaste tree

Chaste tree (or chasteberry) is mostly known to women, as it is one of the most effective allies in maintaining a healthy

Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a well-known spice which has favourable health effects. It helps to maintain a healthy blood sugar

Cocklebur

Cocklebur

This plant is classified as an invasive weed, and it is used in folk herbalism for its beneficial effects. Although it comes from

Common Knotgrass

Common Knotgrass

The Common Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare) has a long-standing tradition as herbaceous plant.

Cordyceps

Cordyceps

The Cordyceps sinensis is a unique entomopathogenic fungus which is one of the basic components...

Echinacea

Echinacea

Echinacea purpurea is also known as purple coneflower. This plant comes from North America; it is cultivated for its decorative

Fragrant dill

Fragrant dill

Many of us associate dill with dill sauce, which is very polarizing - some adore it, while others get chills just thinking about it.

Garlic

Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) is not suitable just for culinary purposes, not at all. It can have its place also in home medicine ...

Ginger

Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a popular rooting herbaceous plant which helps to keep a healthy blood...

Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo biloba

The aidenhair Tree  is an ancient tree which boosts the human nervous system and mental equilibrium...

Goldenrod

Goldenrod

The goldenrod is a domestic herbal plant which increases human body’s physiological resilience...

Grape Vine

Grape Vine

The Grape Vine (Vitis vinifera) is a woody liana of the Vitaceae family. It is one of the oldest cultivated

Greater burdock

Greater burdock

Burdock is a plant that is considered a resistant weed. However, few people know that it is an important medicinal plant. In

Green oat

Green oat

The most widespread species of oat that entered Europe as a weed. In the past it was an important crop, now it is used for its

Guarana

Guarana

The Guarana is a shrub the berries of which contain an active substance helping to break...

Guduchi

Guduchi

The Heart-leaved Moonseed is a significant herb from India which helps control blood sugar level...

Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle

Blue honeysuckle, also known as fly honeysuckle, is a deciduous, densely branched shrub native to Siberia and Japan.

Iron

Iron

Iron (Fe) is an essential mineral belonging to trace elements. As human body is unable to produce it itself a constant and

Laminaria dried seaweed

Laminaria dried seaweed

Known in English as oarweed, this is a species of seaweed occurring on the North Atlantic coast from Greenland in the north

Lavender

Lavender

The lavender blossom (Lavandula angustifolia) is an age-old symbol of cleanness, relaxation and wisdom.

Lemon balm

Lemon balm

The positive effects of the Lemon Balm have been known for centuries. It is a perennial plant achieving...

Lingonberries

Lingonberries

The lingonberry is a small shrubby herbaceous plant whose fruit-berries are the source of some valuable...

Magnesium

Magnesium

Magnesium is one of the essential trace elements being a part of approximately 300 processes in our body. Magnesium...

Maitake

Maitake

In English this mushroom is known as hen-of-the-wood or ram's head due to its appearance. The fruiting body is a large cluster,

Maral root

Maral root

The Maral root is a mountain herb which stimulates mental functions, supports generally 

Meadowsweet

Meadowsweet

This plant contains the important substance salicin, which is converted to salicylic acid in the liver; this substance

Midland Hawthorn

Midland Hawthorn

Hawthorn is a thorny shrub or small tree that is especially widespread in Europe.

Milk thistle

Milk thistle

The Milk Thistle is a large thorny plant known for its positive effects on the liver and on liver regeneration

Oyster mushroom

Oyster mushroom

The Oyster mushroom is one of the best known health promoting mushrooms...

Passiflora incarnata

Passiflora incarnata

The purple passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is the Ruler of Dreamland.

Plantago lanceolata

Plantago lanceolata

The ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata) is a well-known herb utilised since the ancient times which, like many other herbs

Plum

Plum

Plums are a popular late summer fruit. When you think of plums, it's usually pies and fruit dumplings that come to mind. In addition

Probiotic bacteria

Probiotic bacteria

Probiotic bacteria are important in assisting the maintaining of a digestive system equilibrium.

Proso millet

Proso millet

Along with wheat and barley, proso millet is one of the oldest crops. It originated from China, East Asia and India. In itself,

Prunus armeniaca

Prunus armeniaca

Apricot is a stone fruit species and it is one of the most valuable stone fruits in terms of nutritional and biological values. This

Psyllium

Psyllium

Psyllium, a substance extracted from the Desert Indianwheat is a well-known type of fibre which boosts 

Red clover

Red clover

Clover is such a modest-looking plant, but it has significant positive effects on our health. 

Reishi

Reishi

The Reishi is one of the most important mushrooms of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and the first observations... 

Rosehip

Rosehip

The Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) is a beneficial wood-rotting mushroom which occurs in Southeast Asia...

Roseroot

Roseroot

The Roseroot is important for all men who want to get a boost to their potency and, at the same time...

Šafrán setý

Šafrán setý

Saffron comes from western Asia and blooms with a purple flower in autumn. Each flower has only three 2-3 cm long

Schizandra

Schizandra

Schisandra chinensis, or magnolia berry, is a Chinese vine plant that reaches a length of up to 10 metres. It originated in Russia

Sea buckthorn

Sea buckthorn

The Sea Buckthorn is an exceptional plant with a broad range of positive effects on our health, especially...

Selenium

Selenium

Selenium is one of the essential trace elements which have a crucial influence on the function of the human body

Shaggy Ink Cap

Shaggy Ink Cap

The Shaggy Ink Cap is an edible mushroom the positive effects of which were not known to people...

Shii-take

Shii-take

The Shiitake is a beneficial wood-rotting mushroom which occurs in Southeast Asia, mostly in China...

Siberian ginseng

Siberian ginseng

Eleutherococcus senticosus grows in East Asia, and it is found in Russia, China, Korea and Japan. It is often compared to ginseng

Sidebells wintergreen

Sidebells wintergreen

Ortihilia, or sidebells wintergreen, is a plant that grows abundantly in Siberia and Altai and is popularly called the

Světlík lékařský

Světlík lékařský

This weed with very delicate flowers grows abundantly in meadows and pastures, and it has surprising effects on the

Sweetvetch

Sweetvetch

The Sweetvetch is a mountainous herbaceous plant known primarily to men who seek a natural way

Tribulus terrestris

Tribulus terrestris

The Puncturevine is an interesting herbaceous plant native to Asia, which grows rarely also in this country

Turmeric

Turmeric

The Turmeric is a herbaceous plant of the ginger family, native to South Asia, which promotes...

Valerian

Valerian

The valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is a very popular herb used for easy falling asleep and relaxation

Vitamin C

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is one of those important vitamins which human body is not able to generate by itself. 

Vitamin D

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is very important especially for small children since it co-influences the right development...

Vitamin E

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a significant vitamin with anti-oxidative effects which protects human cells against free...

Vitamin K2

Vitamin K2

Vitamin K is one of the vitamins that are soluble in fats. There are three forms of vitamin K (K1, K2 and K3). 

Water hyssop

Water hyssop

The Water Hyssop (Bacopa monnieri) comes from Asia and is valuable thanks to its capability of boosting...

White cinquefoil

White cinquefoil

This small crawling white flowering plant with strawberry-like flowers has extraordinary effects. It is rare in the Czech

Yarrow

Yarrow

Yarrow is a very well-known plant that we cannot leave out of consideration. The Latin name of this perennial herb

Yerba Mate

Yerba Mate

The beetroot is a well-known rooting vegetable species with all-round culinary uses but it is also a treasure...

Zinc

Zinc

Zinc is an essential mineral that our body cannot synthesize on its own; this means that we need to get it from food or food