For generations, Mexican families have relied on a handful of plants for everything from minor burns and bruises to stomachaches and sleepless nights.
Here are five time-tested botanical remedies worth keeping in your medicine cabinet.
Tepezcohuite (pronounced: teh-pez-co-WEE-teh)
This bark gained national attention after helping treat burn victims after a major industrial accident. Nicknamed Nature’s Neosporin, it boosts collagen, speeds skin repair, and prevents infection. It’s a go-to for acne, rashes, sunburns, and minor wounds.
Chilcuague (pronounced cheel-KWAH-geh)
This potent root has antibacterial, antifungal, and numbing properties. It’s great for everything from sore throats, toothaches, and even digestive discomfort. Start small…this root is powerful. Topically, it helps with cuts and insect bites. Read more about it here.
Mexican Árnica
A trusted remedy for sprains, sore muscles, and bruises, Arnica is typically used as a salve, it reduces inflammation and speeds recovery. It’s also commonly used as a post sobada (a traditional healing massage) treatment.
Manzanilla
In Mexican homes, Manzanilla is used for stomachaches, nervous tension, menstrual cramps. It’s also used in warm compresses for red itchy eyes and skin rashes.
Mexican Tarragon
Traditional healers have treasured this herb, known as yauhtli in Nahuatl, for centuries. It has calming and antispasmodic properties and is commonly steeped as a tea to ease digestion, diarrhea, flu symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia.
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