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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • _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

  • 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

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  • "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