Brucea Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Brucea (Brucea javanica), known in Chinese as Ya Dan Zi, is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the quassia family, Simaroubaceae, native to southern China, Taiwan, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and northern Australia, where it grows in open scrub and forest edges. It reaches 1 to 3 meters with softly hairy, pinnate leaves of 5 to 11 toothed leaflets and long, slender panicles of tiny dark purple flowers. The fruits are oval drupes 6 to 10 millimeters long that ripen from green to black and dry to a wrinkled, hard, black nut; the whole plant, above all the seed kernel, is extremely bitter. We extract the dried fruit.