Desert Willow leaf and bark - Latin Name: (Chilopsis linearis)

Herbal Anecdote: Chinese medical texts dating from 500 BCE recommended its use for these conditions, as did the ancient Greeks and Romans. Europeans seem to have discovered its properties almost by accident during the mid 1700s. Native American tribes used the plant not only for medicine but also for making dye, furniture, mats, baskets, drums, stirrups, tipi pegs and pins, fox and fish traps, hunting lodge poles, and meat-drying racks.

Traditional Uses: Candida, cough, wound healing.