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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Jabin Trees Used for Arthritis Headache Back Pain Insomnia



By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 340-365 


Names
Dogwood Tree (English) Jabin  or Habin (Maya), Florida fishpoison tree, Piscidia piscipula, Fabaceae family

Description















Native to Yucatan Peninsula, Florida and Caribbean.  Jabin (Ja'abin) trees reach up to 20 meters tall; leaflets are elliptic in shape and alternated pinnately compounds; small pale lilac-pink  flowers; pendant paper thin seed pods are pale cream colored and four winged with rippled edges. 

 
Since Habims are members of the Bean Family the fruits are legumes. The dangling legumes themselves are very slender, but each legume bears four paper-thin, fin- like "wings." A typical four-winged legume with its pedicel emerging from a cuplike calyx.

Medicinal Uses 

* Arthritis 
* Headache/Migraine 
 * Nerve/Back Pain 
 * Pain Relief 
* Sleep/Insomnia


Jabin tree bark is highly used by Mayan J-Men healers as a medicinal Mayan plant specially to help female's menstrual cycles.  Wood is heavy resistant to decay; its root bark extracts are medicinal as analgesic and antispasmodic properties. 
 
It has been used in herbal medicine for treating nervous conditions and pain
The tree has medicinal value as an analgesic and sedative.
The bark extracts may have potential for their anti-inflammatory, sedative, and antispasmodic effects.
Piscidia is a very serviceable pain medicine, especially for general body pains (such as after an accident or a jousting tournament) and as an adjunct for skeletal muscle pain. Its sedative effects are minimal which makes it useful for daily use as it does not impair the cognitive process.
 
Piscidia is that it is well tolerated with unwanted side effects being uncommon. This gives more room to play around with dosages when using it for treating pain.

Formulation and Combinations

Depending on what you are using it for, Piscidia combines well with other medicinal plants. It has an ‘adjunct’ quality, meaning it seems to increase the medicinal effects of other plants as well as having its own amplified when they are used together. Two specific plants  works particularly well with for pain are Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) and Hops (Humulus lupulus). The following are some helpful combinations.
  • For skeletal muscle pain; Skullcap, Pedicularis (Pedicularis spp.), Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and Willow (Salix spp.)
  • For insomnia due to body aches; Skullcap, Valerian (Valeriana officinalis), Wild lettuce (Lactuca spp.) and Hops.
  • For a recent injury; Valerian, Kava kava (Piper methysticum) and Wild lettuce.
Piscidia does not have obvious antiinflammatory effects, but since inflammation is a common factor in pain, it can be combined with antiinflammatories such as Willow, Licorice (Glycyrrhiza spp), Arnica (Arnica spp.), Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) and Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) to help reduce the sensation of pain while the above herbs decrease inflammation.

 
Bees

 Its blooms are an important source of pollen and nectar for bees in Yucatan, Mexico. Bees are blind to red, and to them orange, yellow and green are the same color –- yellow. 
Therefore, a honeybee visiting a white Habim flower with a green spot will see a flower with a yellow spot.

Reforestation Restoration of Soil
 
In one of those occasionally flooded areas near the mangroves with very thin to nonexistent soil atop limestone rock where regular trees give way to cacti, agaves and scrub usually less than head high, a dry-season-leafless, woody bush has been prolifically producing clusters of white flowers.

Piscidia piscipula can flower so abundantly when it's only knee high, and apparently live its life as a bush.  These scrubby, flowering ones might be a subspecies adapted to areas of very thin, dry soil.

Trivia

Indigenous peoples all over the world used local poisonous plants to aid in catching fish, and because of this many plants bear common names descriptive of this use.Within its natural range, Native Americans used an extract from the bark, roots, twigs, and leaves of Florida fishpoison tree to sedate fish, making them easier to catch. A number of chemicals present in the tree's tissues are toxic to fish, the principal one being the well-known rotenone

Links

http://www.backyardnature.net/yucatan/jabim.htm

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/356558495468320686/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscidia_piscipula

http://7song.com/blog/2014/03/jamaican-dogwood-piscidia-piscipula-2014/ 

http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail306.php