Hornbeam Copperleaf / Acalypha
Acalypha ostryifolia
EUPHORBIACEAE (SPURGE Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
This is one of several species of Copperleaf (Acalypha spp.) found in Central Texas. These plants are used all over the world for topical and internal healing of sores, wounds, and ulcerations. After watching this short video, click here for an "on demand" class on this wonderful herbal medicine.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
