Vaccaria Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Vaccaria (Vaccaria hispanica) is cowherb or cow cockle, an annual of the pink family, Caryophyllaceae, native to Europe and Asia and naturalized as a field weed across North America, particularly in grain fields of the northern prairies. It grows 30 to 60 cm tall with smooth, blue-green, waxy stems and opposite, lanceolate leaves that clasp the stem, and bears loose, airy clusters of pink five-petaled flowers with an inflated, five-angled calyx. The round capsules hold small black, rough-coated seeds, known in China as wang bu liu xing. We extract the dried seed.