Prickly Pear
Opuntia spp.
Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Prickly Pear cactus or Nopal is widespread, easily cultivated, and incredibly useful. Nopal has been a food staple for millenia throughout indigenous cultures of the Mexico, the southwest US , and beyond. It has an overall protective and nourishing effect on the cardiovascular system, helping to keep blood sugar issues regulated, and decreasing the cardiovascular issues associated with diabetes and high blood sugar / insulin.
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.
