🌶️Latin American Curanderismo
Zapote Blanco
Casimiroa edulis
About Zapote Blanco
Zapote Blanco (Casimiroa edulis) is a herb used in the Latin American Curanderismo tradition to help with Insomnia, Hypertension, Anxiety, and Diabetes. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Casimiroa edulis, with English common names casimiroa, white sapote, and Mexican apple, and known as cochitzapotl in the Nahuatl language (meaning '"sleep-sapote") is a species of tropical fruiting tree in the family Rutaceae, native to eastern Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica. The genus is named for "an Otomi Indian, Casimiro Gómez, from the town of Cardonal in Hidalgo, Mexico, who fought and died in Mexico's war of independence."...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal