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  2. Anemopsis - Wikipedia

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    Mansa means tame, peaceful, calm in Spanish, and the plant has no sedative effect, nor did local people ever use it as a calming agent. Its primary use is as an antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antifungal. The most likely explanation is that mansa is a Spanish alteration of the original native word for the plant, now lost in the depths of time."

  3. Yerba-maté - Wikipedia

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    The word mate is used in modern Portuguese and Spanish. The pronunciation of yerba mate in Spanish is [ˈɟʝeɾβa ˈmate]. [14] The stress on the word mAte falls on the first syllable. [14] The word hierba is Spanish for 'herb'; yerba is the variant spelling of hierba used throughout Latin America. [16] Yerba may be understood as 'herb', but ...

  4. History of yerba-maté - Wikipedia

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    Falkland gauchos having mate at Hope Place. 1850s watercolourby William Pownell Dale.. The history of yerba-maté stretches back to pre-Columbian Paraguay. It is marked by a rapid expansion in harvest and consumption in the Spanish South American colonies but also by its difficult domestication process that began in the mid 17th century and again later when production was industrialized around ...

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  6. Lizard's tail - Wikipedia

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    Anemopsis californica, also known as yerba mansa, native to western North America Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).

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    Yerba Tinted Lip Rescue From my home state of New Mexico, this small, woman-owned brand wild-crafts a local plant called yerba mansa, a traditional remedy for wound healing, and adds it to this ...

  8. Chumash traditional medicine - Wikipedia

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    Yerba mansa was believed to cure gonorrhea, as well as many other afflictions. Seawater as a source of saline and other healing minerals was used to treat sores from venereal diseases, as well as medicinal tea made from carrizo cane.

  9. Saururaceae - Wikipedia

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    Saururaceae is a plant family comprising four genera and seven species of herbaceous flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia and North America.The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is sometimes known as the "lizard's-tail family".