Habin (Piscidia)
Piscidia piscipula
About Habin (Piscidia)
Habin (Piscidia) (Piscidia piscipula) is a herb used in the Mayan Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Insomnia, Pain, Anxiety, and Toothache, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Piscidia piscipula, formerly also called Piscidia erythrina and commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood, or fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree endemic to the wider Caribben region including extreme southern Florida (primarily the Florida Keys) and the Bahamas, many of the Antillean islands and the coastal region from Panama northward to the vicinity of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Native Americans of the West Indies discovered extracts from the tree could sedate fish, allowing them to...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist