🌾Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Vietnamese Silk Cotton (Gạo Rừng)
Bombax malabaricum
About Vietnamese Silk Cotton (Gạo Rừng)
Vietnamese Silk Cotton (Gạo Rừng) (Bombax malabaricum) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Respiratory Issues, Cough, Liver Support, and Inflammation. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of which may also refer to Ceiba pentandra.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal