Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Rubiaceae (Madder Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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NJA note from Ginger:
These adorable shrubby plants are often found growing near or on the edge of bodies of water. I love the spherical flower heads, a useful visual for identifying the plant. I harvest leaves and flowers to make a simple digestive bitter.
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.
