🌽Mayan Traditional Medicine
Kakaw Winik (Cacao Bark)
Theobroma cacao
About Kakaw Winik (Cacao Bark)
Kakaw Winik (Cacao Bark) (Theobroma cacao) is a herb used in the Mayan Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Heart Health, Inflammation, Energy, and Antioxidant, among 1 other condition it addresses. The bark is the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Theobroma cacao, also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small (4–8 m (13–26 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae, native to the deep tropical regions of Central and South America. Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make cocoa mass, cocoa powder, confectionery, ganache and chocolate.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Bark · internal