Stellaria Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Stellaria (Stellaria dichotoma) is the forked chickweed, yin chai hu, a perennial of the pink family, Caryophyllaceae, native to northern China, Mongolia and Siberia, where it grows on dry sandy steppe, dunes and rocky slopes. It forms a rounded, much-branched bush 20 to 40 cm tall, the stems forking repeatedly in pairs, with small, narrow, pointed leaves and many tiny white, five-petaled flowers in early summer. The long, cylindrical taproot is pale yellow-brown and marked by small depressed scars. We extract the dried root.