Tornillo
Prosopis pubescens
Fabaceae (Legume Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Tornillo or Screwbean Mesquite is a type of mesquite tree whose bean pods are all spirally twisted and screwed up tight instead of being long and lean. They can be found in West Texas. Like other mesquite species, the seedpods are nutritious and have been eaten for millennia by indigenous people of the region for the carbohydrate and protein provided.
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.
