Ting Li Zi Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Ting Li Zi (Lepidium apetalum) is a pepperweed, a small annual or biennial of the mustard family, Brassicaceae, native to northern China, Mongolia, Korea and Siberia, where it grows along field margins, roadsides and in dry waste ground. It reaches 10 to 30 cm with slender branching stems, narrow, pinnately cut lower leaves and many tiny flowers that, as the species name says, usually lack petals. The flattened, oval seed pods are about 3 mm long, each holding small reddish-brown, oblong seeds that turn slimy when wetted. We extract the dried seed.