Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Beckwith reported the use of these species to make tea for constipation and fever and, boiled with Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., to bathe a woman after childbirth. At one time these species were regarded as efficaceous in cholera, typhus and typhoid fevers and as good cholagogues.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The use of this plant as a tea and in baths for the treatment of colds and fever is confirmed. Alone or with Salvia serotina it is made into a tea for stomach pains and fever. Country midwives sometimes use it with Hyptis pectinata and Leonotis nepataefolia to make a bath for a woman after childbirth. In Maya medicine various Eupatorium spp. are used for digestive troubles and asthma.

1) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 10.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 54.