Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

This species is used in Jamaica to prepare a tea as a general beverage and for colds and tightness in the chest'. In the Grenadines, where it is called man black sage, the leaves are similarly used to make tea for colds. (13, 25).

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

We find that in addition to the use of this sage to prepare tea for colds it is "used by females for griping in the stomach" (painful menstruation?). With fever grass and bamboo it is included in baths for fever and is often regarded as a panacea.

1) Asprey, G.F: Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 6.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 50.