🪶Indigenous / Native American
Sacred Tobacco
Nicotiana rustica
About Sacred Tobacco
Sacred Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Ceremonial Use, Pain, Fever, and Insect Bites. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Nicotiana rustica, Aztec tobacco or wild tobacco, called ucuch in southern Mexico (specifically Campeche and Yucatán) due to its Mayan roots, mapacho in South America, and thuoc lao (thuốc lào) in Vietnam, is a rainforest plant in the Solanaceae family. It is a very potent variety of tobacco. The high concentration of nicotine in its leaves makes it useful for producing pesticides.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal