🪃Aboriginal Australian Medicine
Pig Face Fruit
Carpobrotus edulis
About Pig Face Fruit
Pig Face Fruit (Carpobrotus edulis) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Sore Throat, Wound Healing, UTI, and Skin Health, among 1 other condition it addresses. The fruit / berries are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig, ice plant, highway ice plant or pigface and in South Africa as the sour fig (suurvy).
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Fruit / Berries · internal