SPILANTHES re Yellow Fever and etc.? Studying emergency medicine -- was Tropical travel -- vaccines

[Shannon Nelson]

And since Yellow Fever is another mosquito born disease, Dale's notes about use of herbal Spilanthes tincture bears consideration! On her advice I have used it in the past as an internal mosquito repellent, and wow it works great.

Before trying it myself, I had searched up as much as I could on internet about it, because I wondered whether eating a pesticide could really be such a good thing, but everything I found was about its benefits for so many things, mostly intriguingly (to me) including being an adrenal strengthener, as well as helping to remove all sorts of pathogens and parasites -- it's been several years so I can't remember it all, but I thoroughly convinced myself that this particular internal insecticide would be just fine; I took it for some months and liked it very much.

It's also just a fun plant to read up on in general. One of its popular names is "the eyeball plant", because each flower looks a lot like a big eyeball. And chewing a leaf brings on sudden and intense salivation, so there were some fun "family lore" stories on the net about that.

My usual herb sources did not carry it, but I was able to find it in one small but well-stocked place, and it's easy to get on the net. Seriously, this seems to be one that deserves MUCH more familiarity as a friendly and valuable herb.

(Dale, THANKS again for your mention of it!)

Shannon