Prickly Ash
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
Rutaceae (Citrus Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Prickly Ash, Tickle Tongue, Toothache Tree -- this tree is known by many names. It is a fun plant to show people on plant walks, especially if they are adventurous enough to put a leaf in their mouth. So tingly and diffusive!
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.
