Viridian Pycnogenol 26mg with Grape 30 vcaps

Breathing easy with Pycnogenol, 6th Oct 2008

Reviewer: Julie Goodwin

Just a few months ago, nine-year-old Jenny Grant was using steroid inhalers to control her asthma. Diagnosed asthmatic when she was a toddler, Jenny had used inhalers regularly day and night. “I just don’t like giving her these chemicals,” explains mum, Sarah. “But she was really very poorly.”
Sarah is delighted with Jenny’s new asthma remedy, a simple extract of pine bark from France called Pycnogenol, as recommended by her local health food shop, after Sarah had read a review of scientific research in the newspaper.

Published in the Journal of Asthma in early 2005, the researchers found that two thirds of asthmatic children managed to come off inhalers after three-month’s supplementation with Pycnogenol. The dosage used in the study was 1mg for every 1lb of body weight.

Jenny has been taking one capsule of Viridian Pycnogenol 50mg daily and has noticed immediate results. “Within a week, Jenny was saying how much better she felt. After a month, she was completely off the inhalers and her breathing much improved,” explains Sarah. “I have noticed that she is breathing through her nose as well as her mouth now. She enjoys swimming so much more too, since she is no longer struggling to breathe.”

As Jenny is just 9, she finds it difficult to swallow capsules and so her mum breaks it open and mixes the powder with yoghurt.

So, what does Jenny have to say for herself? “I feel a lot better. I don’t need to blow my nose at school all the time and I really quite enjoy taking Viridian Pycnogenol. It doesn’t taste bad.” Praise indeed!