🪃Aboriginal Australian Medicine
Purple Myrtle (Ininti)
Senna notabilis
About Purple Myrtle (Ininti)
Purple Myrtle (Ininti) (Senna notabilis) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Wound Healing, Skin Health, Fever, and Digestive Issues. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Senna notabilis, commonly known as cockroach bush, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect, softly-hairy, annual or perennial shrub with pinnate leaves with six to twelve pairs of lance-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of twenty to thirty, with seven fertile stamens in each flower.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both