Twenty-Eight Years of Responsible Nutrition™

Since 1981, Karuna has earned the loyalty of thousands of holistic medical professionals, doctors who expect and deserve products and service that exceed conventional standards. We will meet your high expectations, one order at a time, week after week and year after year. Referrals remain Karuna's primary source of new Customers, which we accept as affirmation that you notice and appreciate the extra effort we invest in serving your practice.

Karuna creates the best products possible, utilizing research-validated ingredients of verified freshness, purity and potency. Pricing these products to keep them affordable for your patients means tightening profit margins and keeping overhead moderate. Although we have a lower profile than some companies, Karuna's philosophy and approach are preferred by a large and growing number of alternative and complementary practitioners who continually choose Karuna products for a greater share of their therapeutic nutritional needs.

Our Appreciation For You, Our Customer

The name Karuna is a Sanskrit word meaning "the embodiment of compassionate activity." It's a daily reminder that our work assists you in promoting the healing and wellness of your patients. We are sincerely honored to earn our living within a dedicated community of compassionate health care practitioners that makes such a significant positive difference in our world.

We invite and welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please let us know how we can better serve your practice and your patients. We enjoy interacting with our Customers, and we will always go the extra miles necessary to earn your trust and your business -- fortifying our ongoing assurance that You Can Rely on Karuna as Confidently as Your Patients Rely on You™.

Vegetarian Capsules and Organic Ingredients

Most of the encapsulated products we offer are now provided to you in vegetarian capsules. Traditional gelatin capsules are used to encapsulate formulations containing non-vegetarian ingredients. We appreciate the support for this positive evolution from so many of our Customers committed to purity and hypoallergenicity. After careful testing, we have selected the strongest and most reliable vegetarian-source capsules.

An increasing share of the Karuna product line benefits from the presence of organic and wildcrafted ingredients. We utilize organic herbals and botanicals whenever realistically possible, balancing patient affordability with the availability and assay-verified potency of organic choices. As feasibility expands over time, Karuna will continue to source organic ingredients for existing and new formulations.

About Ingredients

Karuna products reflect our commitment to providing you with herbal and nutritional supplements free of preservatives, excipients or other additives problematic for the allergic or sensitive patient. Tablets and capsules contain no added sugars, artificial flavorings or preservatives. Disintegration time for all tablets is QC verified at thirty minutes or less unless otherwise indicated. Our search for the finest natural ingredients extends across six continents, and organic sources provide an increasingly larger percentage of our ingredient choices.

Solubility and bioavailability are primary considerations in the design of Karuna capsules and tablets, and we use hypoallergenic ingredients to fill any additional space. Where necessary, cellulose (vegetable fiber from white birch) is used as a disintegrant, and vegetable stearines are utilized as lubricants. For tablets, aqueous cellulose coating is used unless non-allergenic food glaze or pH-sensitive enteric coatings are required by the nature of the tablet. Amino acid chelates are from barley or rice, hydrolyzed protein or free amino acids.

For herbal ingredients, standardized botanical extracts are used whenever possible, assuring reliable potency. Herbal concentrates are used in many formulas and are indicated in parentheses. For example, a (4:1) herbal extract represents a four-fold concentrate of the starting material, with four pounds of raw herb being required to produce one pound of extract. The resulting activity will be approximately four times that of the powdered, unconcentrated herb.

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