Ayapana amygdalina
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Synonyms: Eupatorium glandulosissimum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. subglabrum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. oxychlaenum, Conyza venosa, Eupatorium dodonaeifolium, Eupatorium oxychlaenum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. dissitiflorum, Eupatorium rhodanthum, Eupatorium amygdalinum, Eupatorium oxychlaenum var. glandulosissimum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. glandulosum, Eupatorium oxychlaenum f. hasslerianum, Eupatorium subobtusum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. elegans, Eupatorium surinamense, Bulbostylis glandulosa, Bulbostylis tomentosa, Eupatorium goyazense, Bulbostylis micrantha, Bulbostylis microcephala, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. subobtusum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. heterophyllum, Eupatorium hasslerianum, Eupatorium amygdalinum var. serratum, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. elegans, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. heterophyllum, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. loniceroides, Eupatorium barclayanum, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. serratum, Eupatorium salzmannianum, Chrysocoma purpurascens, Eupatorium amygdalinum f. latifolium, Chrysocoma oppositifolia, Eupatorium ixodes, Eupatorium loniceroides, Eupatorium fraternum, Eupatorium cujabense
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In tropical American and wider folk medicine the aromatic leaves of ayapana are brewed into a fragrant "ayapana tea" used as a digestive stimulant and to ease nausea and stomach complaints, while a leaf paste is applied externally to wounds and to check bleeding (Taylor, 2005). Amazonian peoples such as the Shipibo-Conibo take leaf and stem preparations internally for colic and stomach pain and as a general tonic (Taylor, 2005).
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Botanical Description
Ayapana amygdalina is an aromatic perennial herb or subshrub of the daisy family, belonging to the neotropical Eupatorieae and closely allied to Ayapana triplinervis (formerly placed in Eupatorium). It produces erect, often reddish stems bearing opposite, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic leaves with prominent longitudinal veins and a characteristic sweet, balsamic aroma when crushed. The small flower heads are discoid, lacking ray florets, with whitish to pale purple tubular florets grouped in terminal corymbs, and are followed by small plumed achenes. A plant of tropical and subtropical America, it grows in moist, open and disturbed ground and has been widely spread in cultivation through the tropics for its fragrant, medicinally used foliage.
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