Valerian Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is a tall perennial of the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, native to Europe and western Asia and naturalized across the northeastern United States and Canada in damp meadows, ditches and woodland edges. It rises 1 to 1.5 meters on a hollow, grooved stem with opposite, pinnately divided leaves of seven to twenty-five toothed leaflets, topped in summer by dense, flat-topped clusters of small, sweet-scented pale pink to white flowers. The short rhizome and its many fibrous roots develop a strong, musky, earthy smell when dried that cats find irresistible. We extract the dried root.