American Ginseng Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is a slow-growing perennial of the ivy family, Araliaceae, native to the cool, shaded hardwood forests of eastern North America from southern Quebec and Ontario south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma. It grows 20 to 50 centimeters tall with a whorl of three to five palmately compound leaves, each with five toothed leaflets, a small umbel of greenish-white flowers in early summer, and a cluster of bright red berries in autumn. The pale, fleshy, often forked taproot develops ring-like wrinkles with age; wild roots are a protected export crop, and most commercial supply is now farmed in Wisconsin and Ontario. We extract the dried root.