Hedyotis Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Hedyotis (Scleromitrion diffusum, long known as Hedyotis diffusa), called bai hua she she cao in China, is a slender, sprawling annual of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to southern China, Japan and tropical Asia. It grows in damp fields and ditches with thin, four-angled stems, narrow opposite leaves and tiny white four-lobed flowers, singly or in pairs in the leaf axils, followed by small round capsules. The whole herb is grey-green and slightly bitter. We extract the dried herb.