Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name, in Argentina and Paraguay, of several trees belonging to the genus Tecoma, of the Bignonia family, and particularly of T. Lapacho, a tree 50 to 70 feet high, yielding a bark used in tanning and a valuable heavy wood, much sought for building and naval construction.
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Also known as taheebo, lapacho, and ipe roxo, this herb is a folk remedy in Brazil for cancer and fungal infections.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Also known as taheebo, lapacho, and ipe roxo, this herb is a folk remedy in Brazil for cancer and fungal infections.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Also known as taheebo, lapacho, and ipe roxo, this herb is a folk remedy in Brazil for cancer and fungal infections.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Also known as taheebo, lapacho, and ipe roxo, this herb is a folk remedy in Brazil for cancer and fungal infections.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Returning, now, to apetalous plants of multiplicity and simplification of floral elements, we find that the urticaceæ [30] contain free formic acid; the hemp [31] contains alkaloids; the hop, [32] ethereal oil and resin; the rhubarb, [33] crysophonic acid; and the begonias, [34] chicarin and lapacho dyes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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_ketchiveyos_, twenty or twenty-five feet long by about twenty inches wide, they hollow from the trunk of the cedar, or _lapacho_ tree.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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As well as the accupuncture suggestion look up “pau d’arco” or “lapacho” tea, it doesnt taste “that” bad is used in some cultures as an anti-cancer medication (and is growing in use everywhere else for same) and will at least get you back to crapping like a trooper! prayin for ya dude
The post-surgery Kuato update : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word lapacho
"These cases you can see are made from lapacho, a wood that has no cracks that insects can penetrate; I ordered the shelves especially: they are ten hardwood boards stuck together with an insect-repellent glue, and I put glass fronts on them because books obviously accumulate dust."
The House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez, translated by Nick Caistor, pp 36-37
January 15, 2011