Hoja Santa
Piper sanctum
Piperaceae (Pepper Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Hoja Santa should not be confused with the highly medicinal and unrelated Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon species) (which does not grow in Texas). Hoja Santa is a large and attractive ornamental which, in its homelands in Central America, has a long history of use. Sarah Wu of Zizia Botanicals explains that it is great topically for headaches brought on by heat, as well as strains and bruises.
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.
