BOTAVIE products are not extracts but blends of plants all used in their Totum.
What do we call TOTUM?
The Totum of a Plant is the complex and coherent set of active ingredients of the plant. These balance each other and act in synergy. The vast majority of Plants
have been used in their Totum for their beneficial effects since Antiquity, with proven results.
Plant extracts or their synthetic derivatives are obtained through chemical processes and only use isolated active ingredients, supposed to represent the therapeutic
properties of the plant, in concentrated form, and sometimes added to each other.
Why do we think the Totum is superior to the Extracts?
It would be illusory to think that the therapeutic activity of a plant is the result of only a single molecule. On the contrary, it is explained by the combined and variable effects
of synergy, potentiation (and sometimes even antagonism) of all the active ingredients as well as their bioavailability. Thus, molecules that are inactive by themselves can nevertheless facilitate the therapeutic activity of other molecules.
Totum plants in their natural state have a therapeutic value which can be modified or even disappeared if their components are “tampered with”. Because in botany too, the
whole is more than the sum of the parts. So, although a whole plant has been used successfully for hundreds of years, its selective extract, even concentrated, most of
the time gives disappointing results. Taken in isolation, each active ingredient often has only a weak or limited effect.
The TOTUM of the plant allows optimal bioavailability in the body and a physiological action respectful of the user cells while the Extracts, because of their high
concentration, appear more like a composition of synthetic elements, in the manner of chemicals as a natural product even if everything is basically natural.
Each substance of the plant participates in a whole, in a network of subtle interactions having therapeutic effects in order to maintain human Vital Energy.
TOTUM also offers the advantage of not needing solvents for extraction or excipients either which, in the case of an Extract, are very often added to fill the capsule.
“The Whole is greater than the sum of its parts. »
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
“The therapeutic effect cannot be attributed to a single chemical constituent or group of molecules. It is the set of substances present in the plant which determines the activity
of the plant, through an effect of synergy, but sometimes also, of antagonism. »
