Cat's Claw Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa), una de gato in Spanish, is a woody climbing liana of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the Amazon rainforest and the foothills of the Andes in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, and across Central America to Guatemala. Its stems climb 20 to 30 meters into the canopy, with opposite, oval, softly hairy leaves and, at the base of each leaf pair, two curved, woody hooks shaped like a cat's claws that hold the vine to its host tree. Dense, ball-shaped heads of small yellowish-white tubular flowers hang on long stalks. The inner bark is pale reddish-brown and fibrous. We extract the dried inner bark.