Chaparral has had limited medicinal use. Some Indians prepared a decoction (extract) from the leaves that they used to purge the body and to heal sores. In the past L. tridentata was considered synonymous with the...
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Chaparral has had limited medicinal use. Some Indians prepared a decoction (extract) from the leaves that they used to purge the body and to heal sores. In the past L. tridentata was considered synonymous with the Argentinian species L. divaricata, but most botanists now think of L. tridentata as a separate species.
Chaparral is an ingredient in an herbal tea recommended today by some folk healers as an antitussive (to relieve or prevent coughing), an antiarthritic (to ease symptoms of arthritis), and a cancer remedy, but researchers cannot substantiate these claims.
Generally acknowledged as the most adaptable plant in desert regions in the United States, chaparral, or creosote bush as it is often called, endures long periods without rainfall. When rain does come, the shrub's thick leaves become sticky and emit a tarry or creosotelike smell. By some accounts, this aroma accounts for the Mexican name hediondilki, meaning "little stinker." The genus name honors the 18th-century Spaniard Juan Antonio Hernandez de Larrea, a patron of science.
In the desert and semi-desert regions of the southwestem United States, where the plant is indigenous, chaparral is sometimes found in gardens of native plants or used to ornament the landscape. Near Los Angeles, in the Johnson Valley, is an unusual specimen of this species known as the King Clone - a 25- by 70-foot bush some 12,000 years old. The large elliptical plant began as a single creosote bush after the last ice age and has grown outward over the centuries.
Habitat: Scrub deserts.
Range: Native to the southwestern United States, chaparral is found growing wild from Texas to California and south to Mexico.
Identification: A resinous, many-branched evergreen shrub growing 3-9 feet tall. Its branches are distinguished by black rings at the nodes. The leaves grow in opposite pairs; each leaf consists of two olive-green leaflets, 3/8 inch long. Yellow flowers (normally January-May, but may occur throughout the year in warmer climates) have five petals, and are followed by showy globular fruits (seed balls) that are covered with fuzzy white hairs.
Chaparral contains the powerful antioxidant nordihydroquaiaretic acid (NDGA), which has known anticarcinogenic properties.
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Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
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