Devil’s Claw
Proboscidea louisianica
Martyniaceae (Unicorn Plant Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan devotes a whole chapter to Devil's Claw in his wonderful book Gathering the Desert. The okra-like fruit and the seeds of the plant are indeed edible, but it is the bony dried fruit that is most recognizable and has been used in basketry for millennia.
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.
