Pau d’arco is a huge canopy tree native to the Amazon rainforest and other tropical parts of South and Latin America.
Indigenous Traditional Use:
Pau d'arco has a long and well-documented history of use by the indigenous peoples of the rainforest. Indications imply that its use may actually predate the Incas. Throughout South America, tribes living thousands of miles apart have employed it for the same medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Pau d'arco is recorded to be used by fo ...(more)
Pau d’arco is a huge canopy tree native to the Amazon rainforest and other tropical parts of South and Latin America.
Indigenous Traditional Use:
Pau d'arco has a long and well-documented history of use by the indigenous peoples of the rainforest. Indications imply that its use may actually predate the Incas. Throughout South America, tribes living thousands of miles apart have employed it for the same medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Pau d'arco is recorded to be used by fo ...(more)
Pau d’arco is a huge canopy tree native to the Amazon rainforest and other tropical parts of South and Latin America.
Indigenous Traditional Use:
Pau d'arco has a long and well-documented history of use by the indigenous peoples of the rainforest. Indications imply that its use may actually predate the Incas. Throughout South America, tribes living thousands of miles apart have employed it for the same medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Pau d'arco is recorded to be used by fo ...(more)
Tabebuia impetiginosa (Pau d’arco )
One of the best known, but least understood, herbs from the Amazonian rainforest, Pau d'arco is a key ingredient in the tribal medicine chest, used as whole herb to treat infections, for pain, arthritis, fever, dysentery, and some reports suggest cancer. The Pau d'arco tree is a huge canopy tree that grows up to 125 feet high, with pink to violet colored flowers. Its history of use is thought to go back to the Incas, and several tribes have been using it t ...(more)