Kammu (Calathea)
Calathea allouia
About Kammu (Calathea)
Kammu (Calathea) (Calathea allouia) is a herb used in the Shipibo & Upper Amazonian Shamanism tradition to help with Digestive Issues, Nutritive, Fever, and Wound Healing, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), known as lerén or lairén in Spanish, and also known in English as Guinea arrowroot, and sweet corn root, is a plant in the arrowroot family, native to northern South America and the Caribbean, The name "allouia" is derived from the Carib name for the plant Lerén is a minor food crop in the American tropics, but was one of the earliest plants domesticated by pre-historic Amerindians in South America.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist