LIQUID TINCTURE 10X! PURE & GENUINE! certified SHILAJIT 2 ounces / 60 ml. 60 servings! To put it simply, it is supplement-like compound that when consumed, can provide a number of health benefits. It has many interesting properties, and has been taken in one form or another for thousands of years in places like Tibet, India, Russia, China, Mongolia, and even ancient Greece. So, if it has been around so long, and it is amazing, why isn’t everyone taking it? Well, they are, it is the most popular medicinal compound on the Indian subcontinent. Shilajeet is also known by almost a dozen different names (like Shilajeet, mineral pitch, black asphaltum) and is used in Ayurvedic and traditional medicine widely throughout Asia. The west has been extremely slow to adopt eastern medicine, despite an incredibly long tradition of medicinal experimentation that has produced time tested remedies. Where does it come from/How is it made? Shilajeet is obtained from a few select mountain ranges in Asia, specifically the Tibetan Himalyas, the Russian Caucuses, Mongolian Altai, and the Pakistani Gilgit mountains. The shilajeet recommended here is from the Ladakh range in the northwestern Himalayas between India and Tibet, and is harvested at elevations over three thousand meters, or around ten thousand feet. You heard right, harvested. Shilajeet (black asphaltum) is not a man made herbal or medicinal compound. It literally seeps from cracks in the mountains like a nectar or sap and is scrapped from the stone. Basically, this stuff it is the blood of the mountains and the word Shilajeet can be translated to mean rock-invincible, destroyer of weakness, or conqueror of mountains. Metaphors aside, Shilajeet is a naturally occurring exudate of plant and mineral based origins. In these mountains, organic and plant material dies, mixes with microorganisms or microbial metabolites in the soil, is saturated in water during the spring freeze, works its way deep into rocky crevasses, leaches minerals from the stone, gets compressed by layers of rock, brews and “ferments” in this compressed state for thousands of years, and when ready, due to the intense heat of the sun on the stones, bubbles up from down below. So basically, you’ve got a substance that is of both organic and geological origins, that is essentially a distillation of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, enzymes, electrolytes, and amino acids. After the Shilajeet is harvested it is either processed, or sold in its raw form. Be wary of sellers who sell their product in its raw form. Unprocessed, or improperly processed Shilajit can contain toxins and heavy metals… it did come from inside a mountain after all. Ingredients:100% pure shilajit extract grain alcoholdistilled water