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Yerba mansa is versatile. It can be taken orally as a tea, tincture, infusion or dried in capsule form. It can be used externally for soaking inflamed or infected areas. It can be ground and used as a dusting powder. Some people in Las Cruces, New Mexico use the leaves to make a poultice to relieve muscle swelling and inflammation.
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.
Saururus cernuus, also known as water-dragon, dragon's tail and swamp root, a medicinal and ornamental plant native to eastern North America; Anemopsis californica, also known as yerba mansa, native to western North America
Yerba mate (1 C, 11 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Medicinal plants of South America" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
It is used for a variety of purposes in traditional medicine; tulsi is taken in many forms: as herbal tea, dried powder, fresh leaf or mixed with ghee. Essential oil extracted from Karpoora tulasi is mostly used for medicinal purposes and in herbal cosmetics. [112] Oenothera: Evening primrose
Medicinal: used, either directly or as a simple extract such as a tea, to cause some physiological effect, usually to treat some ailment or disease Fragrance: used to add a pleasant odor to food, medicine, or other consumed or partially consumed items (such as incense, candles, or lotions)
Potentiates CNS sedatives, [3] chronic use might cause a reversible dry skin condition. [18] Khat: qat Catha edulis: Chronic liver dysfunction [3] [19] Kratom: Mitragyna speciosa: Hepatotoxicity [20] [19] Liquorice root Glycyrrhiza glabra: Hypokalemia, hypertension, arrhythmias, edema [5] Lobelia: asthma weed, pukeweed, vomit wort Lobelia inflata
Yerba maté or yerba-maté (/ ˈ j ɜːr b ə ˈ m ɑː t eɪ /), [2] [3] Ilex paraguariensis, is a plant species of the holly genus native to South America. [4] It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. [5] The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a beverage known as maté. Brewed cold, it is used to make ...