Cotton Root
Gossypium hirsutum
Malvaceae (Mallow Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
I honor the cotton plant for its incredible history as a warrior ally plant for women in their reproductive years. Enslaved women on cotton plantations worked intimately with this plant and developed a deep relationship with and understanding of its actions on their unwanted pregnancies. Nowadays, I see cotton root bark's power as an ally in birthing women, keeping them off the medical conveyor belt of intervention, allowing them to have natural births and to keep the mother/baby bond intact.
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.
