Di Gu Pi Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Di Gu Pi (Lycium barbarum), the root bark of the goji or wolfberry shrub, comes from a deciduous shrub of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, native to northern China and grown on a large scale in Ningxia, as well as naturalized in hedgerows across Europe. It grows 1 to 3 meters with arching, often thorny grey branches, narrow, grey-green leaves, and small purple funnel-shaped flowers, followed by glossy, oblong, orange-red berries 1 to 2 centimeters long that are sweet with a tomato-like note. The root bark is stripped in rolled, quill-like pieces, grey-yellow outside, pale within, faintly sweet then bitter. We extract the dried root bark and berry separately.