04 / Ingredients
Five plants, five honest verdicts
Every Neuro Salt ingredient, and what the research really says
Each card below takes one printed line of the Neuro Salt panel and says what the plant is known to do, at what kind of dose, and where the evidence stops. Where a claim is traditional rather than tested, this page calls it traditional.
Ingredient 01Calm
Passionflower
145 mg per two capsule serving
Passionflower is the biggest line on the panel and the one with the most human work behind it, though none of that work is about nerves. Controlled trials have used it for anxiety and for sleep quality, sometimes at a fraction of this amount as a standardised extract, sometimes at far more as a dried herb tea. What it plausibly does inside Neuro Salt is take the edge off an agitated nervous system in the evening. It is sedating, so it does not belong next to alcohol or a sleeping pill without a doctor's opinion.
Ingredient 02Soothe
Marshmallow Root
110 mg per two capsule serving
This is the entry that deserves the plainest talk on this whole page. Marshmallow root works because it is full of mucilage, a gel that physically coats wet tissue, which is why it earns its keep in throat and gut products. Nerves are not a mucous membrane and a swallowed gel does not reach them. There is no human trial of marshmallow root in nerve pain. Treat the 110 mg here as gentle digestive comfort, not as a shield around a nerve.
Ingredient 03Relieve
Corydalis Powder
100 mg per two capsule serving
Corydalis yanhusuo is the most interesting name on the Neuro Salt label. Its alkaloids, tetrahydropalmatine among them, have real analgesic activity in laboratory and animal work, including in models of the burning, shooting kind of pain. The catch is scale and species: traditional practice uses grams of crude herb in a decoction, and this panel prints 100 mg of powder. Corydalis is also sedating and has not been studied in pregnancy, so it is off limits for anyone pregnant or nursing.
Ingredient 04Protect
Prickly Pear Extract
50 mg per two capsule serving
Prickly pear is the antioxidant seat on this panel. Printed as a 20 to 1 extract, the 50 mg on the label stands in for roughly 1000 mg of dried cactus pad, which is the one place where a small number on this bottle is doing more work than it looks. Human studies exist on betalains and oxidative markers, mostly around hangover and metabolic endpoints. Nothing published connects it to nerve pain, and Neuro Salt does not become an antioxidant therapy because a cactus is on the panel.
Ingredient 05Calm
California Poppy Seed
45 mg per two capsule serving
California poppy is the smallest entry in Neuro Salt and the one most often misread. It is not the opium poppy and it carries no morphine. It is a mild sedative herb, and almost every human trial behind it used it in a combination product with valerian or hawthorn rather than on its own. At 45 mg of seed it is a supporting note in the blend, pushing the formula further toward the evening. Combined with the passionflower and the corydalis, expect drowsiness rather than alertness.