Mesquite
Prosopis glandulosa
Fabaceae (Legume Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Mesquite trees are ubiquitous throughout much of the southwest as well as in many parts of Texas. The pods are the most important part of the plant, and have provided nutrition for people, domesticated animals, and wild animals for eons. High in protein (40%, nearly double that of other legumes) and other nutrients, mesquite pods can be roasted and ground into flour.
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.
