Lemongrass Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), the West Indian lemongrass, is a tall clumping perennial grass of the grass family, Poaceae, probably native to tropical Southeast Asia or Sri Lanka and now grown across the tropics from Thailand and India to the Caribbean. It forms dense tussocks 1-1.5 m tall of sharp-edged, blue-green, arching leaves rising from pale, bulbous stem bases and rarely flowers in cultivation. The crushed stalk smells of lemon with a hint of ginger and rose, from citral, and is a staple of Thai cooking. We extract the dried stalk.