Picietl (Sacred Tobacco)
Nicotiana tabacum
About Picietl (Sacred Tobacco)
Picietl (Sacred Tobacco) (Nicotiana tabacum) is a herb used in the Aztec & Mesoamerican Medicine tradition to help with Ceremonial Use, Pain, Wound Healing, and Spiritual Protection, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-grown herbaceous plant. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the genus Nicotiana, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed into tobacco. It grows to heights between 1 and 2 meters. Research is ongoing into its ancestry among wild Nicotiana species, but it is believed to be a hybrid of Nicotiana sylvestris, Nicotiana tomentosiformis,...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist