Tu Fu Ling Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Tu Fu Ling (Smilax glabra) is the glabrous greenbrier or China root, a climbing perennial vine of the greenbrier family, Smilacaceae, native to southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand, where it grows in forest edges and hillside thickets. Its slender, unarmed stems climb by paired tendrils, with leathery, narrowly elliptic leaves marked by three main veins and glaucous beneath, and small greenish-yellow flowers in umbels followed by purple-black berries. The irregular, knobby rhizome is reddish-brown outside and pinkish-white inside, with a starchy texture. We extract the dried root.