🌶️Latin American Curanderismo🏝️Filipino Traditional Medicine
Yerba Buena
Mentha spicata
About Yerba Buena
Yerba Buena (Mentha spicata) is a herb used in the Latin American Curanderismo and Filipino Traditional Medicine traditions to help with Digestive Issues, Nausea, Headache, and Colic, among 3 other conditions it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Spearmint, or spear mint (binomial Mentha spicata, synonym Mentha viridis), also known as garden mint, common mint, lamb mint and mackerel mint, is a species of mint native to much of Europe and Asia (Middle East, Himalayas, China etc.), and naturalized in parts of northern and western Africa, North America, and South America, as well as various oceanic islands.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal