Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.51.16
655.51.16 Bixa orellana
English: Lipstick tree.
Names: Annotta, Arnotta, Orellana, Orleana; Aploppas; Tupi name urucu, annatto, bijol, pimentão doce; Nahuatl achiote (= shrub).
Spanish: Colourados.
Use: American Indians make body paint, dye, especially for the lips, hair, food products, cheeses, fish, salad oil.
Botany: America, pink flowers, bright red spiny fruits, dry and harden to brown capsules, red seeds.
Content: annatto, also called bixin.
Use: colour, flavour, nutrition, drugs.
DD: Chlorum.
Source: Müntz.
Mind
Attachment versus detachment.
Problems with mother.
Communicative, affectionate, company desires, out going, talkative, loving, caring, warm, friendly, kind and companionship.
Ailments from detachment in their relations, lost relatives, lost love.
General
Sensation: squeezed.
Body
Infection: fungi.
Head: headaches; sunstroke.
Throat: tonsillitis.
Lungs: pleurisy, apnoea.
Abdomen: diabetes, type 2.
Chest: squeezing, compression.
Rectum: discomfort.
Skin: eczema, elephantiasis, leprosy; burns.