Shan Zhu Yu Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Shan Zhu Yu (Cornus officinalis) is the Japanese cornel or Asiatic cornelian cherry, a deciduous small tree of the dogwood family, Cornaceae, native to China and Korea and long cultivated in Zhejiang and Henan and in Japan. It grows 4 to 10 meters with peeling grey-brown bark and opposite, oval leaves with arching veins and tufts of hair beneath. Clusters of tiny yellow flowers open on bare branches in late winter, before the leaves, and are followed in autumn by oblong, glossy red, sour fruit whose stone is removed before drying. We extract the dried fruit.