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THE FIRST TOBACCO- & NICOTINE-FREE CHRÜTERZIGI FROM A SWISS MANUFACTORY
0.0 MG NICOTINE
0% TOBACCO
MADE FROM EIGHT SWISS ORGANIC HERBS
Without artificial flavourings
BOLD. SPICY. FRESH.
OUR OWN RECIPE. DEVELOPED IN STEINACH.
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The tobacco-free herbal cigarette is not a modern invention. Its trail runs back more than two thousand years – from the Ayurvedic smoke ritual, through the asthma cigarette of European pharmacies, to the Schwiizer Chrüterzigi. This compendium tells the story of a category that was once medicine, then vanished – and returns today as a product of pleasure.
Two traditions. One idea.
Inhaling the smoke of burning medicinal plants to ease breathing is a very old idea. The Egyptian Ebers Papyrus describes heated stones covered with herbs, their smoke drawn in through a reed. In India and in Europe, the practice arose independently – and endured for centuries.
The decisive transfer came by way of colonial India. British observers saw datura smoked against asthma there – and brought the practice home. It fell on fertile ground.
General Gent brings back from southern India a remedy for asthma attacks, prepared from the roots of the wild thorn apple. Through Dr Sims, the practice enters the Western pharmacopoeia.
Five years earlier, the physician Samuel Cooper had already introduced smoked stramonium in the United States. Both dates are documented – they do not exclude each other.
When supplies of Indian datura ran out, an asthmatic surgeon turned to the native common thorn apple instead. With that, the plant’s European career began.
The practice met a society in which some 80 % of men and 40 % of women already smoked. The medium was familiar – only the content was new.
At first, stramonium was smoked in ordinary pipes. By way of the cigar – in 1846 Mr Butler introduced stramonium cigars in Covent Garden – the ready-made asthma cigarette emerged in the 1850s and 1860s. A dense product landscape followed: advertised in daily papers, sold in pharmacies from Paris to Chicago.
Paris, from 1862 at the latest. The international market leader, distributed in more than two dozen countries. Main active ingredient, by contemporary analysis: belladonna.
France, from 1858. The main competitor – belladonna, thorn apple and henbane leaves, plus a small pinch of opium.
Great Britain. One of the most popular brands: stramonium, belladonna, atropine. Manufactured until 1988 – longer than any other.
USA. Sold as a powder, as cigarettes and as an incense, in packs of 24 – expressly labelled «contains no tobacco».
Asthma cigarettes were available in Swiss pharmacies. From 1901 they were covered by the «Concordat against secret remedies»: the first list, dated 15 April 1901, held 611 preparations, among them the Berlin bronchial cigarettes. The Pharmacopoea Helvetica listed a «Pulvis Stramonii compositus», expressly as an asthma powder. According to the Pharmazeutische Zeitung, such cigarettes remained available through pharmacies into the 1970s.
The decline was not an event but a slow fading. Several forces worked together – and reinforced one another.
In over 300 years of Swiss tobacco tradition much has been refined, but one thing had never existed: a herbal cigarette developed and made in a Swiss manufactory. It is built from carefully selected Swiss organic herbs – without a single tobacco leaf, without nicotine, without artificial additives, made as pre-rolls in packs of 20.
Carefully selected and blended. Not one tobacco leaf – the herbs carry the character alone.
No tobacco, no nicotine, no artificial additives. What is inside is printed on the pack.
Where the asthma cigarette wanted to be medicine, the Chrüterzigi is pleasure – regulated under Swiss tobacco products law as a plant-based smoking product, not as a medicine.
Developed and produced in a Swiss manufactory, as pre-rolls in packs of 20. The first of its kind.
Two thousand years in ten dates.
Over 300 years of Swiss tobacco tradition. Now we are writing the next chapter with the Schwiizer Chrüterzigi: the first tobacco- and nicotine-free herbal cigarette from a Swiss manufactory, developed and made in Steinach on Lake Constance.
🇨🇭 Eight organic herbs. One wild blend.
A blend of leaves and herbs with real character: bolder in expression, spicier in taste and with a clear freshness.
🌿 Bold yet balanced, like a good blend
Mullein, hazel leaf, raspberry leaf and marshmallow leaves give the blend body and its botanical base. Sage and thyme bring the distinctive spice and depth. Peppermint adds a clear, fresh accent, while lady's mantle rounds off the blend.
🚫 No artificial flavours & additives
What you taste comes from the herbs themselves. No artificial flavouring, no needless frills.
📍 Clear origin. Honest recipe.
We know what's inside and why. Each of the eight herbs plays its own part. Together they create the boldest character in our Chrüterzigi family.
🛠️ Developed in Steinach
The Wildling recipe is created at our HEIMAT manufactory on Lake Constance. This is where the blend is fine-tuned, mixed and turned into the finished Schwiizer Chrüterzigi Wildling.
What's inside?
Mullein · Hazel leaf · Sage · Peppermint · Raspberry leaf · Lady's mantle · Marshmallow leaves · Thyme
8 organic herbs. 0 % tobacco. 0.0 mg nicotine.
Some things get more interesting when you let them keep their character.
A meadow that isn't trimmed to the millimetre. A path that doesn't always run straight. Herbs that come with rough edges.
That is exactly where the idea for our Wildling came from.
It is the boldest blend in our Chrüterzigi family. Spicier than Original and Älpler, more distinctive and with a freshness that doesn't hide.
Mullein and hazel leaf give it its botanical base. Sage and thyme bring spice and depth. Peppermint adds a clear, fresh accent. Lady's mantle holds the blend together and rounds it off.
The Wildling doesn't try to please everyone.
It's allowed to be bolder.
It's allowed to be tart.
It's allowed to show character.
Not everything needs taming.
Bold. Spicy. Fresh.
We wanted to create a real alternative for everyone who enjoys the ritual of a cigarette but doesn't always want tobacco and nicotine.
For some, the Chrüterzigi is simply a conscious change. For others, it can be a companion when they want to cut down on tobacco or leave it behind altogether.
For us, that's no contradiction. Quite the opposite: HEIMAT stands for enjoyment and self-determination. And sometimes Heimat also means rethinking what we're used to.
That's why we took the cigarette back to its origins: plants, leaves and flowers. No tobacco. No nicotine. With a ritual that stays familiar.
Because for many people, a cigarette isn't just about nicotine.
It's also a shared moment.
Stepping out briefly after dinner. Sitting together at a festival. Chatting outside the bar. Heading out the door together on a break.
Wanting to drop tobacco or nicotine doesn't automatically mean wanting to give up these moments.
That's exactly why our Chrüterzigi looks and works like what you know: light it, hold it, step outside together and share the moment.
That's exactly the moment we wanted to keep.
We just wanted to give it a different basis.
So with the Wildling, the focus isn't on a nicotine kick, but on a blend that has presence even without it: bold herbal notes, subtle spice, clear freshness and a character of its own.
For everyone who likes their Chrüterzigi a little more intense.
The ritual stays. You decide what goes with it.
Herbs instead of tobacco. 0.0 mg nicotine. And still right in the middle of it.
Because sometimes, when you give up a cigarette, it isn't just the nicotine you miss.
It's being part of it.
Mullein
Forms the calm, herbal base: the foundation on which the bolder notes unfold.
Hazel leaf
Brings body and a distinctive, green botanical character to the blend.
Sage
One of the defining notes of the Wildling: spicy, aromatic and clear in expression.
Peppermint
Sets a fresh counterpoint and gives the bold herbal spice its clear edge.
Raspberry leaf
Adds extra fullness and a pleasant botanical depth to the blend.
Lady's mantle
Connects the different herbal notes and brings calm to the bold blend.
Marshmallow leaves
Provide a softer undertone and give the recipe balance.
Thyme
The spicy peak of the Wildling: full of character, intense and unmistakably herbal.
Eight herbs. Eight characters of their own.
In the Wildling, they're allowed to have rough edges.
Sage and thyme give it its spice. Peppermint its freshness. The leaves and herbs underneath provide body and balance.
The result is our most intense blend:
Bold. Spicy. Fresh.
A Wildling, after all.
We developed and fine-tuned this recipe in our HEIMAT manufactory in Steinach on Lake Constance.
This is where mullein, hazel leaf, sage, peppermint, raspberry leaf, lady's mantle, marshmallow leaves and thyme become our Schwiizer Chrüterzigi Wildling.
The boldest character in our family.
8 organic herbs. 0 % tobacco. 0.0 mg nicotine. 100 % Chrüterzigi.
| Contents |
20 Schwiizer Chrüterzigis with our boldly balanced organic herbal blend |
| Herbs |
Mullein, hazel leaf, sage, peppermint, raspberry leaf, lady's mantle, marshmallow leaves & thyme |
| Tobacco |
0 % tobacco, completely free of the tobacco plant |
| Nicotine | 0.0 mg nicotine |
| Taste |
Bold and spicy, with distinctive herbal notes, a subtle tartness and clear peppermint freshness |
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Recipe |
Eight herbs full of character, carefully balanced: intense, spicy and clearly defined |
| Additives |
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| Development |
Our own recipe, developed in our HEIMAT manufactory in Steinach on Lake Constance |
| Production |
Fine-tuned, mixed and made into the finished Schwiizer Chrüterzigi in Steinach |
| Ritual |
For everyone who enjoys the familiar moment of a cigarette but doesn't always want tobacco and nicotine |
| Character |
8 organic herbs. 0 % tobacco. 0.0 mg nicotine. 100 % Chrüterzigi. |
Our products are made in our workshop on Lake Constance.
Short distances. Personal relationships. 100% Swiss origin.
We know every batch. Every supplier. Every decision.
No additives. No greenwashing.
What we do is real. And it stays real.
Heimat is nature. No compromises. No exceptions.
