🪶Indigenous / Native American
Devil's Club
Oplopanax horridus
About Devil's Club
Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Diabetes, Immune Support, Arthritis, and Stress. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Devil's club or devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) is a large understory shrub endemic to the arboreal rainforests of the pacific northwest, but also disjunct on islands in Lake Superior. It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in noxious and irritating spines. It is also known as Alaskan ginseng and similar names, although it is not a true ginseng.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal