Psyllium Hulls (100 caps)

Psyllium hulls have been part of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine for hundreds of years. This member of the plantain family gets its name from the Greek word for flea…no doubt because the seeds look a bit like a giant flea party. The psyllium shrub has a base of thin, green leaves and skinny stems topped by elongated green heads that turn white with tiny blossoms and then brown. It grows all over the world and is native to Asia and the Mediterranean region. It is most commonly found in the sandy soils of India, but it grows well in the more arid parts of the US, including the southwest and drier Rocky Mountain states. Because it swells in liquid, psyllium has sometimes been used as a thickening agent in ice cream. People have also been known to bake it into bread and pasta.