We recently put a banner up outside our store advertising Back to School aids for children with ADD and ADHD. The banner read: “Hocus Focus.” What surprised us is that we got an over whelming amount of adults asking for help with attention deficit.

I cannot help but wonder is it hard for children and adults to focus when schedules are completely filled up with activities, appointments, and many more things? This leaves no down time to rest the mind. Lifestyle and heredity can play key roles in how focused we are and how calm we are. If you feel like you cannot concentrate on one thing for more than a minute without becoming fidgety, forgetful, or hyper here are some suggestions.

Ginkgo plus Gotu Kola (The Herbalist)
Enhances Memory & Brain Function

This tonic helps to increase oxygen flow to the brain, combating short-term memory loss, increasing concentration, and improving learning skills and memory retention. It adds support to the nervous system, creates calm, clear, and focused mental thoughts. For mental fatigue and depressed states, this tonic promotes cerebral circulation that restores mental health and mental clarity. The circulatory-stimulating property of this tonic enhances circulation to the legs, helping to prevent spider veins, varicosities, arterial insufficiency, and numbness in the limbs, hands, and feet, deteriorating vision, and tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

Ingredients: Ginkgo fresh leaf (Ginkgo biloba), Gotu Kola fresh herb (Hydrocotyle asiatica).

Suggested use: Take 30 to 60 drops two to three times daily.

Brain Flex (The Herbalist)
Suggested use: Take 2 one or two times daily in between meals.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine (The Herbalist)
Suggested use: Take 1 to 2 in between meals.