Bai Mao Gen Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bai Mao Gen (Imperata cylindrica), known in English as cogongrass, is a perennial grass of the grass family, Poaceae, native across East and Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Australia, and now an aggressive invader of the southeastern United States. It forms dense stands 30 to 120 centimeters tall of stiff, narrow, sharp-edged leaves with a prominent white midrib, and in spring sends up fluffy, silky-white, cylindrical flower plumes 5 to 20 centimeters long that give the Chinese name, white thatch root. The creeping rhizomes are white, jointed, tough, and faintly sweet, and run for meters just below the soil. We extract the dried rhizome and root.