Chile Pequin
Capsicum annuum
Solanaceae (Nightshade Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Chile pequins are small but really piquante! If you are lucky enough to have a chile pequin plant volunteer in your yard (the birds poop out their seeds), you can harvest from it year after year. I like making a fermented hot sauce with them.
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.
