Ocotillo
Fouquiera splendens
FOUQUIERACEAE (Ocotillo Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Ocotillo are magnificent desert plants that grow throughout the southwestern US and northern Mexico. In the Chihuahuan Desert, they are often the tallest plants, and their long spiny arms reach for the sky, seemingly communicating with the heavens and/or extraterrestrials. Where abundant and legal, an ocotillo branch can be harvested and the bark processed into a fresh plant tincture to help move lymph and blood in the pelvic region.
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.
