Digestion Support is effective either before or after a meal. Oregon Grape, Milk Thistle, and Ginger Root are added to Cinnamon Bark and horehound leaves to support the digestive process. Carminatives taken after a meal have been used for over a century to encourage the stomach’s production of digestive juices. Although it has been a practice to add these after a meal, the most productive time is a teaspoon just after the first few minutes of beginning eating with some hot tea.