Squash Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Squash (Cucurbita pepo) is a trailing or bushy annual vine of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, domesticated in Mexico and the southern United States and grown worldwide; the species covers zucchini, acorn and spaghetti squash, pattypan and most pumpkins. It has large, rough, lobed leaves on prickly hollow stems, big yellow-orange funnel-shaped flowers of separate male and female kinds, and fruit of many shapes and colors with a central cavity of flat, oval, cream-colored seeds. The seed kernels are green and oily. We extract the dried seed.