Spilanthes Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Spilanthes (Acmella oleracea) is the toothache plant or paracress, a low, spreading annual of the daisy family, Asteraceae, of South American origin, probably Brazil, and grown as a vegetable and ornamental across the tropics. It forms a mound 20 to 40 cm tall with purplish stems and opposite, oval, bronze-tinged leaves, and bears button-like flower heads of yellow florets with a red center and no petals, resembling small eyeballs. The leaves and flowers contain spilanthol, which produces a tingling, numbing sensation on the tongue. We extract the dried leaf.