Green Tea Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) is the unfermented leaf of the tea plant, an evergreen shrub of the tea family, Theaceae, native to the borderlands of southwestern China, northern Myanmar and Assam. Left alone it grows into a small tree, but plantations keep it as a waist-high hedge of glossy, serrated leaves with small white, yellow-centered flowers. For green tea the young leaves are steamed or pan-fired to stop oxidation, keeping their green color and fresh, grassy, slightly astringent taste. We extract the dried leaf.