Barrenwort Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Barrenwort (Epimedium grandiflorum), also sold as horny goat weed and known in China as Yin Yang Huo, is a clump-forming perennial of the barberry family, Berberidaceae, native to the woodlands of Japan, Korea, and northeastern China. It grows 20 to 40 centimeters from a creeping rhizome, with wiry stems carrying compound leaves of heart-shaped, spiny-edged leaflets that are bronze-tinted when young. In spring it bears loose sprays of distinctive flowers, white, pink, or violet, each with four long, curved spurs that give them the look of a tiny bishop's hat. The leaves are leathery, papery when dried, and bitter. We extract the dried leaf.