Backbone

Backbone is a foundational kidney yang tonic designed to address chronic low back pain, weakness in the knees, sexual dysfunction, and cold-type patterns like fatigue and poor circulation. It’s especially helpful when symptoms are deep, lingering, and accompanied by feelings of cold or lack of vitality.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), these issues often stem from a depletion of kidney yang, the warming, activating force that governs bone strength, reproductive function, and lower body energy. Backbone replenishes yang, strengthens bones and sinews, invigorates blood, and clears out cold and stagnation that block recovery.

This formula combines warming and restorative yang tonics like eucommia, morinda, psoralea, and cistanche with blood invigorating herbs such as myrrh, safflower, and cyathula. Together, they activate circulation in the low back, strengthen connective tissue, and restore the kidney’s root energy.

Backbone also includes coral calcium from Okinawa and adaptogens like eleuthero to support long-term vitality and physical endurance. It's deeply nourishing and especially suited for chronic, deficiency-driven pain and dysfunction.

Backbone is best suited when you're experiencing cold, achy low back pain, fatigue, incontinence, impotence, or symptoms like weak knees and poor bone healing that point to depleted kidney yang.

Avoid use if you have signs of internal heat or damp-heat (such as red tongue, irritability, or dark urination). For best results, use under practitioner supervision to match your constitution and condition.

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Astra Essence
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Resinall E or Resinall K
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