Tian Ma Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Tian Ma (Gastrodia elata) is a leafless orchid of the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to the mountain forests of China, Japan, Korea and the Himalaya, where it grows in moist humus and is cultivated in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. It has no green leaves and no chlorophyll, living entirely on nutrients drawn from the fungus Armillaria, which colonizes its tuber. A bare, yellowish-brown stem 60 to 100 cm tall rises in summer with a spike of small urn-shaped, orange-yellow flowers. The oblong, flattened tuber, marked with rings and a parrot-beak bud, is the harvested part. We extract the dried tuber.