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Epazote, Mexican Tea, Chenopodium
ambrosioides
L.,
also called wormseed, is used to
expel worms (only in the hands of a skilled holistic health care
practitioner, overdoses are common and severe).
Food: Epazote is used sparingly in soup, tacos, black beans, mushrooms...It is pungent, an acquired taste in time you will really enjoy. Plant used to reduce fevers, also as a spring tonic; leaves were crushed and used as a poultice to treat headache; leaves were decocted in milk and used to treat worms; plant used as poultice on edema; Seeds used as tonic tea; seeds to treat worm infestations. Plant used to quell toothache. WARNING: overdose extremely toxic. THERE IS A MOVEMENT IN MEXICO TO BAN THE USE OF THIS PLANT. Difficult situation given traditional uses. I found the plant used in almost every rural Mexican home. |
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Epazote flowers and seeds. BEAN SOUP: I use 6 or 7 leaves in 2 quarts of bean soup, add near the end of the cooking. |