Prickly Ash Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) is the southern prickly ash or toothache tree, a small deciduous tree of the citrus family, Rutaceae, native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States from Virginia to Texas. The trunk is studded with corky, cone-shaped knobs tipped with sharp spines, and the pinnate leaves have glossy leaflets dotted with oil glands that smell of citrus when crushed. Small greenish flowers are followed by follicles with shiny black seeds, and the bark produces a numbing tingle on the tongue. We extract the dried bark.