Cottonwood
Populus spp.
Salicaceae (Willow Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Cottonwood is an indicator of above ground or underground water here in the western part of the US. Look for the deltoid shaped leaves on the ground and the cotton-like fluff in the breeze, especially when you are near a river or creek. Cottonwood medicine made with bark or leaves is cooling, anti-inflammatory, and pain-relieving.
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.
