Snowparsley Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Snowparsley (Cnidium monnieri) is an annual of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to China, Korea and eastern Siberia and naturalized in parts of Europe and North America, where it grows in damp grassland, along field edges and riverbanks. It reaches 30 to 80 cm with hollow, branching stems and finely divided, lacy leaves, and in early summer carries compound umbels of small white flowers that look like snow sprinkled over the foliage. The small oval fruit has five winged ribs and a strong aromatic scent, and is known in China as she chuang zi. We extract the dried fruit.