Lasianthaea fruticosa
StarLasianthaea fruticosa
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Mexican traditional medicine tatalencho is valued chiefly against pain and inflammation: the leaves and stems are macerated in alcohol for several days and rubbed on aching joints, and a decoction of the branches is drunk, used in baths or applied as compresses for rheumatism, bruises and headache (Biblioteca Digital de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana, UNAM). It is also used for diarrhoea and other complaints.
Botanical Description
A shrub or small tree of the daisy family, reaching up to about 5 metres tall, with slender, spreading branches, native to Mexico and Central America and extending to the southern United States and south to Oaxaca. The leaves are simple and relatively narrow, often roughly hairy, arranged along the stems. The flower heads are borne at the branch tips and are typical of the Asteraceae, with pale yellow ray florets surrounding a central disc of small tubular florets. The fruit is a small achene. It grows in tropical and subtropical dry forest, scrub, fallow land and along roadsides and forest margins, frequently in disturbed and seasonally dry habitats. Known in Mexico by common names such as tatalencho and quitirrí, it is a familiar component of the regional flora and a plant of local ethnobotanical importance.
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