Lupuna Blanca
Ceiba pentandra
About Lupuna Blanca
Lupuna Blanca (Ceiba pentandra) is a herb used in the Amazonian Plant Medicine tradition to help with Spiritual Healing, Fever, Diarrhea, and Infection. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var. guineensis) to tropical west Africa. A somewhat smaller variety is found throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. Kapok is the most used common name for the tree and may also refer to the cotton-like fluff obtained from...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist