Cenizo
Leucophyllum frutescens
Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
My favorite way to work with cenizo is to make a cough syrup. This can be made with cenizo leaves, twigs and flowers that were harvested and dried, or it can be made on the fly when needed with freshly harvested herb. Boil it all up as a decoction, and add honey and brandy to preserve it. I like preparing a cenizo-infused honey or a monarda-infused honey to make this syrup, although plain honey is great too. The honey mellows the strong taste of the cenizo so that its more palatable but still highly effective for coughs of all kinds.
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.
