Bai Hua She She Cao Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bai Hua She She Cao (Scleromitrion diffusum, long known as Oldenlandia diffusa or Hedyotis diffusa) is a small annual of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to southern and eastern China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, where it sprawls in damp fields, paddy margins, and roadside ditches. Its thin, wiry, four-angled stems trail 15 to 50 centimeters and carry pairs of narrow, grass-like leaves barely 2 millimeters wide. The Chinese name, snake-tongue grass with white flowers, describes the tiny solitary white four-petaled blooms that sit on short stalks in the leaf axils, followed by small round capsules. We extract the dried root.