Chuan Xiong Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Chuan Xiong (Ligusticum chuanxiong, listed in our catalog by the Latin trade name Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, and classified by Kew as a cultivated form of Conioselinum anthriscoides) is a perennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, known only from cultivation on the Chengdu plain of Sichuan, where it has been grown for over a thousand years. It stands 40 to 60 centimeters with hollow, ribbed stems, fern-like leaves, and umbels of tiny white flowers in summer. The rhizome is an irregular, knotted, fist-shaped mass 2 to 7 centimeters across, yellow-brown outside, pale within, and intensely aromatic with a pungent, bitter, slightly numbing taste. We extract the dried root.