Pipsissewa Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata) is a low evergreen subshrub of the heath family, Ericaceae, native to the cool forests of North America, Europe and Asia, where it grows in dry, sandy conifer woods. Its creeping rhizomes send up stems 10 to 30 cm tall bearing whorls of leathery, dark green, sharply toothed leaves shaped like narrow wedges. In summer a small umbel of nodding, waxy pink to white flowers with a central green ovary rises above the foliage. We extract the dried leaf.