Yerba Mansa
(Anemopsis californica)
Botanical Information
A small perennial of wet places in the Lizard’s Tail family with aromatic underground roots and rhizomes, spreading by runners. The white flowers are in spikes.
Working with Yerba Mansa
Part(s) Used
Rhizome, Root
Herb Forms
Tincture, bulk herb, powder.
Affects
Yerba mansa is a warming diaphoretic and immune-activating herb used in traditional North American medicine for colds, flu, infections, and digestive problems. The herb is pleasant-tasting, reminiscent of cinnamon, and makes a good cold and flu-preventative tea in the colder, damper months. It is used for acute and chronic gastroenteritis, for bronchitis and moist coughs, and as a wash for mouth and gum sores and laryngitis. It makes a good nasal spray for hay fever or sinusitis.
Yerba Mansa has a taste of SPICY, ACRID and a temperature of WARM.
Cautions
None noted.
