If you've bought from us before, you may have come looking for Para Purge and found something called Wormwood Cleanse instead.
Same formula. Same bottle count. New name on the label.
Here's the whole story, because we'd rather explain it once than have people wonder whether we discontinued something.
The short answer
Para Purge is now Wormwood Cleanse. Nothing about the blend changed when the name did — same eleven herbs, same 496 mg capsules, same 100-count bottle, same written manufacturing standard behind it.
If you have an old bottle in the cupboard and you're trying to reorder it, this is the one.
Why the name changed
A lot of our formulas were named decades ago, in an era when herb companies named products after what they hoped you'd get rather than what was in the jar. You can still see that style out there — old catalogues, old labels, old listings on other people's websites.
We've been working through the catalogue and bringing names in line with a simpler rule: the name should tell you what's in the bottle.
Wormwood Cleanse does that. Wormwood is the herb the formula is built around, and it's right there on the front. You know what you're buying before you turn the bottle over.
Para Purge didn't do that. It described an outcome rather than an ingredient, and outcomes are exactly the thing a supplement label shouldn't be promising. We're a dietary supplement company, not a pharmacy, and the label ought to make that obvious at a glance.
There's a practical reason too. "Para Purge" was never a name we owned — at least one other herb company sells a product under a similar name, and has for years. Wormwood Cleanse is clearer for everyone, including us.
This is part of a broader pass under new ownership. Grandma's Herbs changed hands in March 2026, and one of the first jobs was going through forty-six years of accumulated product names and asking, honestly, whether each one still made sense. Several didn't. Blood Pressure became Cardio Flow. Nature's Biotic became Nature's Defense. Para Purge became Wormwood Cleanse.
What's actually in it
Eleven herbs. Here they are, one at a time.
Wormwood (leaf) — Artemisia absinthium. The bitter herb behind absinthe, and one of the most famously bitter plants in the European herbal tradition. The English name is old — it turns up in Anglo-Saxon herbals — and it has been a fixture of bitters formulas for centuries.
Tansy (herb) — Tanacetum vulgare. A bright yellow-flowered European plant that medieval households scattered on floors for its strong scent. Intensely aromatic, intensely bitter.
Black Walnut (hulls) — The green outer hull of the black walnut, a staple of Appalachian folk herbalism and, before that, a reliable source of dark brown dye. Anyone who has shelled them knows the stain.
Garlic (herb) — Probably the oldest continuously used medicinal plant on record, and a kitchen staple on every continent.
Pomegranate (rind & bark) — The rind rather than the fruit. Used across the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, and mentioned in some of the earliest surviving medical texts.
Hyssop (herb) — A bitter aromatic in the mint family, named in the Bible and grown in monastery gardens through the Middle Ages.
Pumpkin (seed) — A food first. Long-standing in the traditional cooking and folk practice of the Americas.
Blue Vervain (herb) — A North American plant used by Indigenous peoples and later adopted by the Eclectic physicians of the nineteenth century, who wrote about it extensively.
Senna (leaf) — A well-known bitter from the Cassia family, used in traditional practice across North Africa and the Middle East. Note the caution below.
Chaparral (herb) — Larrea tridentata, the creosote bush of the American Southwest. One of the oldest living plants on earth; some desert clonal colonies are estimated at thousands of years. Please read the caution below before taking it.
Bayberry (bark) — An astringent bark from the North American coast, used in colonial-era practice. The same plant's wax was once used for candles.
How to take it
Two capsules with a meal, or as directed. Take it with food and plenty of water.
This is a bitter formula. Some people find it easier with a larger meal rather than a light one.
Please check with your doctor first if…
We would rather lose a sale than have someone take this when they shouldn't. Read this part properly.
- You are pregnant, might be pregnant, or are nursing. Wormwood and tansy have a long history of being avoided in pregnancy, and that history exists for a reason. Do not take this.
- You have any liver condition, or take medication processed by the liver. Chaparral has been linked in published case reports to serious liver injury, documented by the CDC and in the medical literature. Anyone with liver concerns should talk to a doctor before taking any chaparral-containing product, including this one.
- You have a seizure disorder. Wormwood and tansy both contain thujone, which is not appropriate for everyone.
- You have an inflammatory bowel condition, or you're taking other laxatives. Senna is a stimulant laxative and isn't meant for long-term or continuous use.
- You have a tree nut allergy. This contains black walnut hulls.
- You are giving it to a child. Don't, without a doctor's direction.
- You are taking prescription medication of any kind. Bring the bottle to your pharmacist. They can read a label faster than any of us.
This is a short-term formula, not a daily supplement. Use it as directed and stop when you've finished the course.
Other names you might see
Because the catalogue is old and widely distributed, you may run across our products listed elsewhere under names we retired years ago — including Para Purge. Some of those listings are out of date, and some describe formulas we no longer make.
If you want the current formula with the current label, buy it from us or from a retailer who stocks the current bottle. If you're ever unsure what you've got, call us at (435) 673-7995 and read us the label. We'll tell you straight.
Blended in St. George since 1979
Grandma's Herbs has been making herbal formulas since 1979, when Master Herbalist Joseph VanSeters started the company in southern Utah. We're still in St. George. Every formula is produced in GMP-certified facilities in the United States, in vegan capsules, with no fillers or artificial ingredients — and third-party tested by an independent, ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory.
The names on some of the bottles are changing. What's inside them isn't.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
