Apache: Na’ishq’ bitzee Spanish: Bavisa

Curanderos use this plant as a tea for stomach disorders, a gargle and rheumatoid arthritis. Its anti-inflammatory effects are put to use topically for arthritis, hemorrhoids and abrasions (Torres 2006).

Everybody who has lived where Yerba Mansa grows has used it as a medicine (Moore 1989). The New Mexican Spanish and the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest used it for boggy, poorly healing infections (cold conditions) of the mouth, intestinal and urinary tracts and lungs. Mouth sores, inflamed gums, and sore throat, as well as stomach ulcers, intestinal parasites have been helped by the herb. The tea relaxes the kidneys, is diuretic, and disinfects the urinary tract; chronic congestion, sinus infections, colds, allergies, viral or fungal infections have been treated with this plant (Slattery 2020). It also has a history of use as an immune tonic during cold and flu season or after infection.

Found in the Medicinal Plant Garden at Silva Creek Botanical Garden

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