Yerba

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Yerba buena, or Cuban mint, specified in recipes as the mojito s native mint, is peppermint, though die classification is also loosely applied hi Cuba to bergamot and die rugose form of spearmint, according to Dr. Art Tucker from die Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University. Dr. Tucker is an expert on mint. 

Corria, D., Existence of trigonelline in yerba mate, Arq Biol Tecnol Inst Biol Pesquisas Tecnol, 2, 265, 1947. 

Osburn, Lynn. Making the Elixir of Yerba Santa. Alchemy J 3, no. 2 (Mar/Apr 2002). rhttp //www.alchemylab.com/AJ3-2.html. 

Figure 6.3 Yerba Mate is a small tree that grows in South America. Yerba Mate tea, made from the dried leaves and stemlets of the Yerba Mate tree, is a popular stimulant drink in South America. Yerba Mate is also used in many diet pills.

Yerba Marla resembles somewhat the yerba mora, but it has slightly wider leaves. Only the leaves are used, putting them in water. First the leaves are rubbed together in the hands, the water in not boiled, and they are used for very specific purposes. When the curandero goes to the forest in search of this plant, before cutting it he must kneel and pray to it. They are not witch-doctors but the leaves are cut only when they are needed, after praying. 

Asking Don S. about the mushroom Teonanacatl, which is found in Huautla de Jimenez, he said it wasn t used in Jalapa, but he mentioned another plant that was called Yerba de Maria. 

It seems odd that the use ofthe mushroom called Teonanacatl Na3 categorically denied, when we know that in the Mazatecan capital of Huautla de Jimenez its esoteric use is very well known. As has been said, here it gives way to the plant known as Yerba de Marfa. 

Perhaps it may be of interest to point out the fact that a plant called Yerba de la Virgen is used in almost the identical manner in the Otomi town of Santa Ana Hueytalpan, in the region of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, according to Dr. J. Soustelle, who learned of it and wrote us. However, he didn t mention an auto-diagnosis as takes place in our Mazatecan town. 

Yerba mora is Black Nightshade or Solarium nigrum , illness can be physical, psychological or magical. There is a more detailed description of crushing the... 

Saivia divinorum has been known by a host of other names through time, including Yerba de Mana ("Herb of Mana"), hojas de la Pastora ("leaves of the... 

Widely prescribed for asthma and bronchitis, and often combined with Euphorbia and Yerba Santa for the former complaint. The paroxysms are quickly reduced both in sharpness and frequency. Figures prominently in the American herbal materia medica. 

EXPECTORANTS Assist, by their influence on the respiratory passages, the increased secretion and ejection of mucus.—Coltsfoot, Elecampane, Horehound, Black Horehound, Lobelia, Mouse-ear. Mullein, Pleurisy Root, Squill, Sundew, Yerba Santa. 

Metal distribution studies are in no way limited to most known tea infusions. Other herbal products, some very popular in South American and Asian countries, have also attracted the attention of analytical chemists in connection with their possible contributions to human metal intake in large populations. Leaves and commercial products of Paraguayan yerba mate (Ilex paraguaiensis S.H.) were... 

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