Organic Lymph Movement Tincture Blend—Full Strength

Still Water Goes Bad

Granny used to say, “Still water goes bad.” A creek that keeps moving runs clean and cold. A pond with no way out turns green, then thick, then starts to smell.

Your body has a creek of its own, and most people have never heard of it. It’s called the lymph, and unlike your blood, it has no heart to pump it. Your heart pushes your blood around all day without you thinking about it. Nothing pushes your lymph but you.

When you move, it moves. When you sit, it sits. And when it sits long enough, it does exactly what Granny’s pond did.

Lymph Movement Organic Herbal Tincture Blend contains seven organic herbs, led by fresh cleavers and red root, chosen to get your body’s drainage system flowing again.*

What Your Lymph Does

Your lymph system is your body’s drainage and cleanup crew, all in one:

• It drains your tissues. Every cell in your body sits in fluid. The lymph collects that fluid, along with the waste, debris, and worn-out cells in it, and carries it away.
• It filters what it carries. Along the way, the fluid passes through 600 to 800 lymph nodes—little filters packed with your body’s defenders—that catch and clear what doesn’t belong.
• It houses your defenses. Your lymph nodes, tonsils, and spleen are where your immune system gathers, trains, and goes to work.
• It carries fat from your gut. The fats you eat travel through the lymph before they ever reach your blood.
• It empties into your blood near your collarbones. From there, what it collects can be carried to the liver and kidneys and sent out.
• It depends on movement. You have more lymph fluid in your body than blood, and the only things that move it are your muscles, your breathing, and your movement.

What Stops the Flow

• Sitting all day—at a desk, in a car, or on the couch
• Shallow breathing from stress
• Not drinking enough water
• Tight clothes and tight bras that squeeze the lymph channels
• A heavy load of toxins for the lymph to carry
• Processed food, sugar, and fried food that thicken the fluid
• A liver that’s behind, so the lymph has nowhere to empty
• Poor sleep

When the lymph stops moving, the fluid in your tissues gets thick and stays put. Waste that should be leaving sits right where it is.

Signs Your Lymph Is Stuck

• Puffiness, especially around your eyes in the morning
• Swollen ankles or rings and socks that leave deep marks
• Heavy, achy legs
• Swollen or tender glands in the neck, under the arms, or in the groin
• Feeling waterlogged and sluggish
• Stiffness and aches first thing in the morning
• Brain fog
• Catching every cold that comes around
• Sinus congestion that hangs on
• Breast tenderness or lumpy, congested tissue
• Dull skin, breakouts, or itchy skin
• Cellulite that seems to be getting worse

The Herbs and Why Each One Is Here

This blend works in three ways at once. Cleavers, red root, ocotillo, and calendula get the lymph moving and the glands draining. Burdock and echinacea clean what the lymph carries and support the defenders in the nodes. Ginger warms circulation and keeps everything moving.

Organic Fresh Cleavers Herb (Galium aparine) — The Lead

The tradition: The sticky, scrambling weed that clings to your pant legs and the dog’s fur every spring. Geese love it, which is why it’s also called goosegrass. Pioneer families stuffed mattresses with its cousin, and old-timers strained their milk through a tangle of it.

What’s in it: Asperuloside, coumarins, and flavonoids—at their strongest in the fresh green plant.

Why it’s outstanding: Cleavers is the classic lymph herb. It gets lymph flowing, helps drain swollen glands, and flushes the kidneys, so what the lymph carries has a way out.*

Why fresh: Cleavers loses most of what makes it work when it dries. We tincture ours live, picked in spring, at 1:2.

Its job in this blend: It leads, getting the whole drainage system moving.*

Organic Red Root (Ceanothus americanus) — The Drain

The tradition: A small shrub of the eastern woods with a deep, dense root as red as a brick. Native peoples used it for sore throats and swollen glands, and colonists brewed its leaves as tea—which is why it’s also called New Jersey tea.

What’s in it: Tannins and plant acids that tighten tissue and move fluid.

Why it’s outstanding: Red root is one of the strongest lymph movers there is. It goes to work on the lymph nodes and the spleen—the biggest lymph organ you’ve got—and helps clear fluid that’s thickened and stalled.*

Its job in this blend: It opens the drains so the lymph can empty.*

Organic Ocotillo Bark (Fouquieria splendens) — The Lower-Body Mover

The tradition: A desert plant of the American Southwest, with tall, spiny whips that look dead most of the year. Then it rains, and within days, the whole plant leafs out green and blooms red at the tips. Herbalists of the Southwest have long used the bark for stagnant fluid low in the body.

What’s in it: Resins, waxes, and plant acids in the bark.

Why it’s outstanding: Ocotillo moves lymph in the lower body—the belly, pelvis, and legs—where it pools first and moves last. It also helps the gut send fats on through the lymph instead of letting them sit.*

Its job in this blend: It gets the lower half moving, where gravity works against you.*

Organic Calendula Flower (Calendula officinalis) — The Gland Soother

The tradition: The bright orange pot marigold from Granny’s garden. Its petals were once used to color butter and cheese, and it was called poor man’s saffron.

What’s in it: Flavonoids, triterpenes, and the carotenoids behind its orange color.

Why it’s outstanding: Calendula moves lymph and soothes swollen glands and tender, congested tissue.*

Its job in this blend: It calms the glands while the other herbs get them draining.*

Organic Burdock Root (Arctium lappa) — The Carrier

The tradition: The plant behind the burrs every country kid has pulled out of their socks—and thrown at their brothers and sisters.

What’s in it: Arctigenin and bitter compounds, along with inulin and minerals.

Why it’s outstanding: Burdock cleans the blood the lymph empties into, through the liver, the kidneys, and the skin.*

Its job in this blend: What the lymph drains, burdock helps carry out.*

Organic Echinacea Root (Echinacea purpurea & Echinacea angustifolia) — The Defender

The tradition: The purple coneflower of the Great Plains and the herb the Plains peoples used more than any other. Put a drop of good echinacea on your tongue, and it tingles and numbs—the old test of a strong root.

What’s in it: Alkamides, the compounds behind that tingle, along with polysaccharides.

Why it’s outstanding: Your lymph nodes are where your defenders gather. Echinacea supports them and keeps the lymph moving through the nodes.*

Its job in this blend: It keeps the defenders in the nodes strong while the drainage gets going.*

Organic Ginger Root (Zingiber officinale) — The Warmer

The tradition: Ginger shows up in nearly every traditional formula for one reason: It keeps things moving.

What’s in it: Gingerols and shogaols, the source of ginger’s warmth and bite.

Why it’s outstanding: Ginger warms circulation, so blood and lymph both move more freely, and it carries the other herbs further.*

Its job in this blend: It warms things up and gets the whole blend moving.*

Better Together: Lymph Movement Wellness Tea

The tincture and the tea are built to work as a team, and they share six herbs: Organic Cleavers, Organic Red Root, Organic Calendula, Organic Burdock, Organic Echinacea, and Organic Ginger.

Then the tea brings Organic Red Clover, the old lymph sweetener of the hayfield, which keeps the lymph moving and the blood clean.

Alcohol pulls the strong compounds out of the herbs and concentrates them into drops. Hot water pulls out the plant compounds alcohol leaves behind—and a full tablespoon of whole herb in every cup is far more plant than any dropper can hold.

The tea also does something drops can’t. Lymph is mostly water, and it can’t flow if you’re dried out. Every cup keeps the creek running.

A simple rhythm: Take drops in the morning and mid-afternoon, with a cup of Lymph Movement Wellness Tea in between. Use 1 tablespoon per 8 oz cup.

Herbs Open the Drain. You Move the Water.

Herbs can thin the lymph and open the drains, but your body still needs you to move it. Do these every day:

• Walk. Every step squeezes the lymph vessels in your legs and pushes the fluid up.
• Bounce. A few minutes on a mini trampoline is one of the best lymph movers there is. No trampoline? Bounce on your heels.
• Breathe deep. Big belly breaths work like a pump on the largest lymph channel in your body, right in the middle of your chest.
• Dry brush. Before your shower, brush your skin with a natural-bristle brush, always toward your heart.
• Put your legs up the wall for ten minutes at the end of the day.
• Drink plenty of water. Lymph is mostly water. Dried-out lymph is thick lymph.
• Sweat. Take a sauna, enjoy a hot bath, or go for a good walk in the sun.
• Loosen up. Skip the tight waistbands and underwire bras when you can.
• Take your drops, then move. Drops before your morning walk give the herbs and your muscles a chance to work together.

Where It Fits in the Line

Your liver and your lymph are the two great drains. When either one is backed up, every cleanse runs into a wall. That makes Lymph Movement a first step whenever the lymph is stuck:

• Before C-Monster Blend: Drain first, so what C-Monster clears has an open path.
• Before Heavy Metal Detox: What gets loosened has to drain somewhere.
• Alongside Liver Cleanse: The liver and lymph open best together.
• On its own: Lymph Movement is for anyone who sits too much, wakes up puffy, or just feels waterlogged.

Getting Ready — One Stage at a Time

Granny’s rule here: Never more than two tinctures at a time, plus a binder. Each stage below stays within that rule.

Before anything—get your water and your bowels moving.

Drink plenty of water every day, and have at least one good bowel movement every day. The lymph empties into the blood, the blood runs through the liver, and the liver sends waste out through the bowels. If the bowels are stuck, the whole line backs up.

Stage 1 — Lymph Movement

Start Lymph Movement any day of the month, and start moving with it.

Liver behind, too? If fatty food sits hard, you’re often queasy or constipated, or your stools run pale, run Liver Cleanse alongside it, at a different time of day. The liver and lymph are the two great drains, and they open best together. That’s two tinctures, nothing more.

Stage 2 — Clean the blood (one round, after)

Everything the lymph drains empties into your blood. Finish with a round of Blood Purifier to clear it. Wait until your round of Lymph Movement is done—never during.

Then—bring in the cleanse.

With the drains open, you’re set for C-Monster Blend or Heavy Metal Detox.

Does Time of Month Matter?

No. The full-moon timing belongs to parasite cleansing because parasites are most active and laying eggs around the full moon. Your lymph doesn’t keep that calendar. Start any day.

How to Take It

Shake well—every time. This is a whole-herb extract, and plant matter settles to the bottom between doses. Sediment means the herbs are really in there. Shake before every dose so each serving carries the full blend.

Empty stomach or food? Take it between meals. Lymph herbs work best when your body isn’t busy digesting.

When: In the morning and mid-afternoon, and in the early evening, too, if you’re taking three doses a day. Don’t take it right before bed—cleavers flushes the kidneys, and you’ll be up in the night.

How: Take it in a full glass of water. Lymph needs water to move.

• Adults: 30 drops, 2–3 times daily
• Teens 16+: 15 drops, 2 times daily
• Sensitive individuals: Start with 10 drops
• Taste: Green and earthy, with a tingle from the echinacea and a little warmth from the ginger.

Binders: Helpful, But Not Required

Lymph Movement doesn’t break organisms down or loosen metals, so it doesn’t release a flood of waste into the gut the way a cleanse does. On its own, it doesn’t need a binder.

A binder is worth adding when:

• You’re running Lymph Movement alongside Liver Cleanse.
• You’re getting headaches, breakouts, or a heavy, achy feeling as things start moving.
• Your lymph has been stuck for a long time.
• You want to use one of these options: Activated Charcoal, Bentonite Clay, or Diatomaceous Earth.

Activated Charcoal—the strongest grabber. Take 1–2 capsules (500–1,000 mg) or 1/4 teaspoon of powder in a full glass of water, once a day. It turns stool black; that’s normal. It can be binding, so keep the water coming.

Bentonite Clay—volcanic clay with a negative charge that pulls in positively charged toxins like a magnet. Mix 1 teaspoon of food-grade powder in 8 oz of water once a day, followed by another full glass. Stir with wood or plastic, never metal.

Diatomaceous Earth—fossilized algae shells with microscopic sharp edges that bind and sweep the gut. Start with 1 teaspoon of food-grade powder in a full glass of water once a day, and work up to 1 tablespoon. Never use the pool-filter kind.

Two hours apart, always. Keep at least two hours between your binder and your drops, meals, or any other supplements. A binder can’t tell what you want carried out from what you just took, so if they meet, it soaks up both. Bedtime works well.

Cleansing Reactions

When stalled lymph starts moving, everything it’s been holding heads for the exits at once—and you may feel it for a few days.

What it feels like: Glands that feel tender for a day or two, more trips to the bathroom, tiredness, achiness, headaches, a skin breakout, or a stuffy or runny nose.

How long it lasts: Usually a few days, hitting hardest in the first week.

What to do:

• Drink more water.
• Keep moving—walking clears it faster than resting.
• Keep your bowels moving.
• Add a binder if it isn’t easing.
• Cut your dose in half for a few days, then build back up.
• Don’t quit. It means the creek is running again.

How Often and How Long

How often: 2–3 times a day, between meals.

How long: Take it in rounds. Four weeks on, one week off, then start again as long as you need it. Echinacea works best in rounds with rests between, and the week off keeps it working.

Once the creek is running: Keep moving, keep drinking your water, and run a round whenever the puffiness, heavy legs, or swollen glands come back—and whenever you’re getting ready for a bigger cleanse.*

Taking It With Other Godly Granny Blends

Lymph Movement shares herbs with several other blends. Here’s how to handle each one:

• Blood Purifier: Shares Organic Fresh Cleavers Herb, Organic Red Root, and Organic Burdock Root. Run it after Lymph Movement, never during.
• Mold Fashioned: Shares Organic Fresh Cleavers Herb, Organic Burdock Root, and Organic Ginger Root. Run one at a time, never together.
• Heavy Metal Detox: Shares Organic Red Root and Organic Ginger Root. Run Lymph Movement first, never during.
• C-Monster Blend: Shares Organic Burdock Root. Run Lymph Movement first, never during.
• Liver Cleanse: Shares Organic Burdock Root. They can run together as a liver-and-lymph opener; take them at different times of day.
• Biofilm Buster, Anti-Parasite, Candida Yeast Balance, Adrenal Cortisol, and Skinny Dippin’: Share Organic Ginger Root. Take them at different times of day.

Why Violet Glass

Amber glass is so last century.

Every Godly Granny tincture is bottled in Miron violet glass, developed in Switzerland for makers who take freshness seriously.

Light protection. Clear, amber, and blue glass all let most visible light through, and visible light is what breaks a plant extract down. It drives the oxidation that fades color, flattens taste, and weakens the compounds you’re paying for. Violet glass blocks the entire visible spectrum, letting through only a narrow band of violet light, along with UV-A and infrared—the wavelengths that help preserve what’s inside.

Extended shelf life. Alcohol is a natural preservative. Paired with glass that keeps light off the extract, your bottle stays strong for years, not months: 5–7 years when tightly closed and stored in a cool, dark place. No refrigeration needed.

Herb frequency retention. Every living plant carries its own subtle energy, or frequency. Miron’s makers—and many herbalists—hold that violet light helps keep that living quality intact long after harvest, so what’s in your bottle stays as close as possible to the plant it came from.

Who Should Not Take It

Do not take if any of the following apply:

• Pregnant or nursing.
• Under 16.
• Those with an autoimmune condition. Echinacea revs up immune activity.
• Those with a ragweed or daisy-family allergy. Calendula, echinacea, and burdock are all in the same family.
• Those with a blood-clotting disorder or a planned operation coming up. Red root affects clotting, so stop two weeks before any planned operation.
• Those avoiding alcohol completely. A 30-drop serving is less than a teaspoon of liquid, but it is alcohol.

Warnings

• Drink plenty of water. Lymph can’t move without it.
• Take the week off between rounds.
• Stop taking it if the whites of your eyes or your skin turn yellow, your urine turns dark brown, or you have pain under your right ribs.
• Keep out of reach of children.

Certified organic herbs, extracted at 1:5 dried and 1:2 fresh, with cleavers tinctured fresh at harvest. In Miron violet glass with a child-resistant dropper.

*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.