Desmodium Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Desmodium (Desmodium adscendens), a tick trefoil known in Ghana as amor seco, is a low, trailing perennial of the pea family, Fabaceae, native to tropical rainforests and clearings of West and Central Africa and of Central and South America, where it carpets damp ground and climbs the bases of trees. Its slender, hairy stems spread 30 to 50 centimeters and carry trifoliate leaves of small oval leaflets. Loose racemes of tiny pink to violet pea flowers are followed by flat pods divided into several jointed segments covered in hooked hairs, which cling to passing animals and trousers and break apart one segment at a time. We extract the dried herb.