pitiona

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Noun

pitiona f (plural pitionas)

  1. (Mexico) Lippia alba (flowering plant used in cooking and traditional medicine)
    • 1994, Virginia Mellado Campos, La medicina tradicional de los pueblos indígenas de México:
      El procedimiento consiste en "barrer” el cuerpo del enfermo con una ramo de ciertas especies vegetales, tales como el saúco (se emplean 13 cogollos) y la pitiona.
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