Ashwagandha Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), sometimes called winter cherry or Indian ginseng, is a short, woody evergreen shrub of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, native to the drier parts of India, the Middle East, and North Africa, and grown as a field crop in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. It grows 35 to 150 centimeters with branching stems covered in fine grey hairs, dull green oval leaves, and small greenish-yellow bell flowers in the leaf axils. The fruit is an orange-red berry enclosed in a papery, lantern-like husk. The long, tuberous, pale brown root smells distinctly of horse, which the Sanskrit name describes. We extract the dried root.