Codonopsis Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Codonopsis (Codonopsis pilosula), known in China as Dang Shen or poor man's ginseng, is a twining herbaceous perennial of the bellflower family, Campanulaceae, native to forest edges and scrub in northern China, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan, and grown as a crop in Gansu. Its slender, hairy stems twine 1 to 2 meters through shrubs, with alternate, oval, softly hairy leaves and nodding, bell-shaped flowers 2 to 3 centimeters long, pale yellow-green outside and spotted purple within. Cut stems bleed milky sap. The long, cylindrical taproot is grey-brown with fine horizontal wrinkles and a ringed, swollen head, and it tastes mildly sweet. We extract the dried root.