🌴Caribbean Folk Medicine
Gully Root
Petiveria alliacea
About Gully Root
Gully Root (Petiveria alliacea) is a herb used in the Caribbean Folk Medicine tradition to help with Arthritis, Cold, Fever, and Immune Support. The root is the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Petiveria is a genus of flowering plants in the pigeonberry family, Petiveriaceae. The sole species it contains, Petiveria alliacea, is native to Florida and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and tropical South America. Introduced populations occur in Benin and Nigeria. It is a deeply rooted herbaceous perennial shrub growing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in height and has small greenish piccate flowers. The roots and leaves...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Root · internal