Chanca Piedra Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Chanca Piedra (Phyllanthus niruri), also called gale of the wind or seed-under-leaf, is a small annual of the Phyllanthaceae family, formerly placed with the spurges, native to the tropical Americas from Texas and Florida through the Caribbean to Brazil and now a common weed of fields and gardens throughout the tropics. It grows 30 to 60 centimeters with a slender, erect stem and spreading side branches that look like feathery compound leaves; each actually bears a row of tiny, oval, alternate leaves barely a centimeter long. Minute greenish flowers and then round, flattened capsules hang in a row beneath each branchlet, hence the English name. We extract the dried leaf.