Condurango Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Condurango (Marsdenia cundurango), the condor vine, is a woody climbing vine of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, native to the cloud forests of the western Andes in Ecuador and northern Peru at 1,000 to 2,000 meters, where it was first described in the 1870s. Its stems, 2 to 3 centimeters thick, twine high into trees and bleed milky latex when cut; the leaves are opposite, heart-shaped, and velvety with soft hairs, 8 to 15 centimeters long, and the small greenish-yellow flowers come in rounded umbels. The bark is grey-brown, rough, and wrinkled, with a faintly aromatic smell and a bitter, slightly acrid taste. We extract the dried herb.