The formulation
Shānta
शान्त
Nine plants for capacity that does not spike. Shānta means settled. It is an unusual name for a formulation of this kind, and it is the whole argument: capacity that arrives steadily and stays, rather than an afternoon of borrowed energy paid back the same evening.
Supplement facts
30 capsules · 30 g
A serving is 2 capsules, so 2,000 mg of actives a day across 15 days. Nothing in the capsule beyond the nine components — no flow agent, no filler, no bulking starch.
- Serving size
- 2 capsules
- Servings
- 15 per container
- Per capsule
- 1,000 mg
- Per serving
- 2,000 mg
| Active ingredient | Per capsule |
|---|---|
| MacaLepidium meyeniiExtract | 40 mg |
| ShatavariAsparagus racemosusExtract | 80 mg |
| GokharuTribulus terrestrisExtract | 80 mg |
| GuduchiTinospora cordifoliaExtract | 80 mg |
| VidarikandPueraria tuberosaPowder | 20 mg |
| VarahikandDioscorea bulbiferaWhole, milled | 200 mg |
| AshwagandhaWithania somniferaWhole, milled | 150 mg |
| Tongkat AliEurycoma longifoliaExtract | 250 mg |
| Safed MusliChlorophytum borivilianumExtract | 100 mg |
| Total actives | 1,000 mg |
Suggested use
Take two capsules daily as a dietary supplement. For best results, twenty to thirty minutes after a meal, with a full glass of water or milk — or as advised by your healthcare professional.
- 100% Vegetarian
- No artificial colours
- No preservatives
- Gluten-free
- Non-GMO
Every plant, and why it is here
Nine plants, each doing something.
- 01Root
Maca
Lepidium meyenii
A brassica that grows at four thousand metres on the Peruvian puna, in cold and wind that almost nothing else tolerates. It is not Ayurvedic and we do not pretend otherwise. It is also the smallest inclusion here but one — forty milligrams is a supporting quantity, not a headline, and calling it anything else would be the kind of claim this label avoids.
- Role
- Andean, and present in a small quantity
- Origin
- Junín · 4,000–4,400 m
- Virya
- heating
- 02Root
Shatavari
Asparagus racemosus · शतावरी
A thorny climber with a crown of finger-thick tuberous roots — shatavari means a hundred roots, and a mature crown genuinely carries that many. It is the one cooling plant among several heating ones. A formula built only from what warms is a formula that runs hot, which is a thing you feel by the third week.
- Role
- The cooling counterweight
- Origin
- Chikkaballapur, Karnataka
- Virya
- cooling
- 03Fruit
Gokharu
Tribulus terrestris · गोक्षुर
A low weed of dry ground with a fruit that splits into five spined burrs — gokshura, the cow's hoof, for what it does to one. It grows anywhere and is therefore easy to buy badly; the compounds vary enough by region that where it grew matters more than most suppliers admit.
- Role
- The classical pairing for musli
- Origin
- Kutch, Gujarat
- Virya
- cooling
- 04Stem
Guduchi
Tinospora cordifolia · गुडूची
A climber that drops aerial roots like threads from whatever it grows over, and will regrow from a cut stem left on the ground. The stem is the part used, not the leaf. Its classical name is amrita — the nectar of immortality — which is a large claim from a tradition otherwise given to precision, and it has kept the name for two thousand years.
- Role
- The one the texts call amrita
- Origin
- Vidarbha, Maharashtra
- Virya
- heating
- 05Tuber
Vidarikand
Pueraria tuberosa · विदारीकन्द
Indian kudzu — a vine over a tuber that can reach the size of a person and takes three years to be worth lifting. Twenty milligrams is a small amount of it, and it is here for the same reason a small amount of anything is: the classical pairing calls for it alongside varahikand, and leaving it out to round the numbers would make a different formula.
- Role
- The smallest quantity in the formula
- Origin
- Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh
- Virya
- cooling
- 06Tuber
Varahikand
Dioscorea bulbifera · वाराहीकन्द
The air potato — a climbing yam that sets tubers on the vine as well as under the ground. Varahi means boar, for the animal that digs it up. It is one of the two largest quantities here and one of the oldest inclusions in this kind of preparation, used as the body a formulation is built on rather than as a note within it.
- Role
- Bulk and ballast, in the classical sense
- Origin
- Kolhapur, Maharashtra
- Virya
- heating
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Ashwagandha
Withania somnifera · अश्वगंधा
The name means the smell of a horse — for the odour of the fresh root, and for the steadiness it was said to lend. We use only the root, never the leaf, and only from plants left in the ground a full winter. Younger roots yield more weight and less of what we are after.
- Role
- The steadying end of the formula
- Origin
- Nagaur, Rajasthan · 300–400 m
- Virya
- heating
- 08Root
Tongkat Ali
Eurycoma longifolia
A slender understorey tree whose root is dug at eight years or later — younger roots are thinner and cheaper and are most of what is sold. It comes from Malay and Indonesian practice, not from Ayurveda, and we would rather name that than blur it. It is here because it is the most studied plant in this formula for the thing the formula is for.
- Role
- The largest inclusion, and the least Ayurvedic
- Origin
- Pahang
- Virya
- heating
- 09Tuberous root
Safed Musli
Chlorophytum borivilianum · श्वेत मूसली
A cluster of white fleshy roots under a plant that looks like nothing at all above ground. It is peeled and dried by hand because a machine breaks the root and the broken pieces darken. Classical texts place it among the vajikarana preparations, which is the category this whole formula sits in.
- Role
- Rasayana, in the strict sense of the word
- Origin
- Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh
- Virya
- cooling
Sourcing
Paid by the year, not the kilogram.
- 9
- Plants, and no filler
- 1,000 mg
- Actives in every capsule
- 2
- Independent tests per batch
Pahang, Malaysia
Eight years underground
Tongkat ali is the largest inclusion here, and the difference between a four-year root and an eight-year one is most of what you are paying for. Younger roots are thinner, cheaper and are the great majority of what is sold. We buy from smallholdings in Pahang that lift at eight to ten years, which means committing to a grower years before there is anything to collect.
Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh
Peeled by hand, because a machine breaks it
Safed musli is peeled and dried by hand. A machine is faster and it fractures the root, and fractured pieces darken and lose grade. We contract with the same growers in Jhabua each year rather than buying by the lot, which costs more and is the only way to know whose hands did it.
Tested before and after
Every incoming lot is screened for heavy metals, pesticide residue and microbial load. Every finished batch is tested again for identity and marker compounds. Two tests, because raw material passing is not the same as the finished capsule passing.
The ritual
Two capsules, once a day, after a meal.
Once daily
Two capsules, twenty minutes after a meal
Once a day, not twice. Most of this formula is heating, and it sits better against food than ahead of it — twenty to thirty minutes after, with a full glass of water. Milk if you have it, which is what the texts specify and what makes the tikta plants easier to take.
The same hour
Pick an hour and keep it
Which hour matters far less than whether it is the same one. The formula is cumulative, so the variable that decides the outcome is how many days you actually take it — and a fixed hour is the only thing that reliably fixes that.
Eight weeks
Give it two containers before you judge it
One container is fifteen days, which is not long enough to tell you anything. Vajikarana preparations are built to accumulate; the classical course is measured in months. If nothing has changed after eight weeks, it is reasonable to conclude it is not for you.
Unedited, and not all of them flattering
Six weeks in, mostly.
I had written off this whole category. What changed my mind was that nothing happened for a month — and then, quietly, the fourth set stopped being the one I skipped.
Anaya R. · Bengaluru · nine months I asked for the test reports expecting to be ignored. They arrived the same afternoon, for my batch, with the markers highlighted. That told me more than the label did.
Vikram S. · Pune · four months Fifteen days a container is genuinely annoying and I have said so. What kept me was that the second container felt like a continuation rather than a restart.
Meera J. · Ahmedabad · a year No spike, no crash, nothing you could point at on any given afternoon. I have come to read that as the product working rather than as it failing.
Daniel O. · London · seven months
Answered plainly
What people ask before they start.
One formulation. One batch at a time.
The current batch is in testing. Join it and we will write when it is signed off — nothing is charged today.
Batch VDV-SHANTA-30 · tested 2026-08-05