Ecklonia Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Ecklonia (Ecklonia kurome), a kelp known in China as Kun Bu and in Japan as kurome, is not a land plant but a brown seaweed of the Lessoniaceae family, growing on rocky seabeds just below the low-tide line along the coasts of Japan, Korea, and the East China Sea. From a branched holdfast rises a short, stiff stalk that flattens into a broad, leathery, olive-brown blade 1 to 2 meters long, split into several wavy, finger-like lobes. Dried, it turns blackish and shrinks into thick, curled, salty sheets that swell and soften again in water, with the sea-and-umami flavor of its relative kombu. We extract the dried whole alga.