About this product

Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) is a very powerful plant. I love seeing it in its native habitat here in the deep, wet woods of the Pacific Northwest. Over my short experience as an herbal enthusiast, Devil's Club extract has become one of my favorite products. I love the rooty, ginseng-like, flavor. It reminds me of the clean forest duff around where it grows, almost like the plants are distilling the essence of the old-growth forest and concentrating it in the roots. Another common name for Devil's Club is Alaskan Ginseng as it is in the same plant family as the famous Panax ginseng of Asia (Araliaceae). Devil's Club also falls into the same medicinal herb category of adaptogen. The term adaptogen was coined by Soviet scientists to categorize certain plants and fungi which help modulate our body's reaction to stress. The roots are harvested from a pristine location deep in the Coastal Range of Oregon