Black Cohosh Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa, long known as Cimicifuga racemosa), also called black snakeroot or bugbane, is a tall woodland perennial of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native to rich deciduous forests of eastern North America from Ontario and Massachusetts south to Georgia and west to Missouri. From a mound of large, compound, sharply toothed leaves it sends up wiry stems 1 to 2.5 meters tall carrying long, white bottlebrush racemes in midsummer; the flowers have no petals, only a puff of stamens, and give off a sweetish, slightly fetid smell. The thick, knotted rhizome is black outside and scarred where old stems grew. We extract the dried root.