Yerba Mansa Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Yerba Mansa (Anemopsis californica) is a creeping perennial of the lizard's tail family, Saururaceae, native to the alkaline marshes, seeps and wet meadows of California, the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It forms colonies from thick, aromatic rhizomes, with a basal rosette of fleshy, oblong, grey-green leaves 10 to 20 cm long. In spring a stem rises 15 to 50 cm bearing what looks like a single white flower, actually a cone of tiny flowers ringed by five to eight white, petal-like bracts. The whole plant smells spicy and resinous. We extract the dried root.