Devil's Club Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) is a sprawling deciduous shrub of the ivy family, Araliaceae, native to moist, shaded forests and streamsides of the Pacific Northwest from southern Alaska through British Columbia to Oregon and Montana. Its thick, crooked stems rise 1 to 3 meters and are densely armed with brittle yellow spines that break off in the skin, as are the undersides of the huge, maple-like leaves up to 40 centimeters across. In early summer it carries a pyramid of small greenish-white flowers that ripen into a showy cluster of bright red berries. The root bark is pale, aromatic, and bitter. We extract the dried root bark.