🪶Indigenous / Native American
Willow (Native)
Salix babylonica
About Willow (Native)
Willow (Native) (Salix babylonica) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Pain, Fever, Headache, and Arthritis. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Salix babylonica (Babylon willow or weeping willow; Chinese: 垂柳) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal