Evil Bone Water

Evil Bone Water is a 跌打酒 diédǎjiǔ/dit da jow (aka "Hit Wine") with roots thousands of years old in martial arts practice. Hard training to protect your family brings martial skill and... sometimes some injuries. Classically after training, hit wines would be applied to bruises or strains to speed up recovery.

In the modern clinic, we often recommend it for acute and chronic pain of many kinds: Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Tendinopathy, Neuropathy (you can add it to the Tibetan Foot Soak!), Low Back Pain, Neck pain...and more! The list goes on and on.

Little known fact: you can also spritz it on an insect bite and it can relieve the itch!

You can use it before exercise to help warm up areas that may be sore or stiff. The warmth & deep penetration help improve circulation almost immediately.

Kung Fu schools used to keep their best formulas top secret but in the 20th century some of these started to become mass-produced. Sadly, with industrial production came lower quality. They even stopped including the most powerful herbs.

Lucky for us, Saint Apothecary took the most popular formula and brought the standards back up.

Ingredients:

Tian-Qi (San-Qi Ginseng): From Yunnan province. Stops bleeding, reduces swelling, alleviates pain, dissolves clots.

Gui-Pi (Cinnamon Bark): The Cinnamon in Evil Bone Water comes from 30 year old trees from the mountains of Guanzhong. Not your grocery store cinnamon but we have been known to keep a bit of this in the office and if you ask nicely you can smell it!

Zhang Nao (Camphor): Natural Camphor can only be sourced from trees in South East Asia. Has a heating or cooling property that changes with friction. Expels wind and damp. Moves the blood to alleviate pain and swelling. Is approved by FDA for the treatment of pain.

Bo He Nao (Menthol): The natural form has large white crystals at room temperature. Cools and vents the body. Clears the head. Relieves stagnation.

Hu Zhang (Japanese Knotweed): "the stick you beat the tiger with" -- In the Tumeric family, this herb moves the blood, dispels dampness and pain, clears heat, and removes toxins.

E Zhu (Zedoaria): Cousins to Ginger and Tumeric, E Zhu breaks up blood stasis, dissolves accumulations and promotes movement to alleviate pain.

Bai Zhi (Angelica Dahuricae): One of the top herbs in Chinese Medicine for pain. Grown in warm regions. Expels wind, alleviates pain, reduces swelling, and expels pus. Also, expels dampness and alleviates discharge

Ji Gu Xiang (Croton): A rare herb in the Croton family.

Qian Jin Ba (Flemingia Root): Dispels damp. Warms and removes obstruction to alleviate pain.

Bai Nui Dan (Elecampane): A very rare flowering bush that is wild-crafted in the mountains of Tibet. Locally and sustainably sourced.It provides many of the antihistamine, skin, and inflammation reducing properties. Very hard, if not impossible to source in the U.S.

High-quality grain alcohol (190 proof)

Water (UV sterilized, Carbon Filtered, Ionized to negative charge)