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Many of you got it right. In Dominica this plant is widely known as Tabac Zombie but in other countries is also known as Tabac Diable, Bitter Tobacco or Indian Tobacco, among other names.
It is used as a medicine for a whole range of ailments ranging from digestive problems, headaches, toothaches, sore throat, catarrh, flatulence, high blood pressure to rashes. It is considered to be an antiseptic and is also associated with spiritual cleansing.
Its scientific name is pluchea carolinensis.
its goji
All in-one Herb,
high leaf!!!!!
What do you mean high leaf!
Tabak Zombie, also called mal mouton
This is a banana tree!
Sage bush, commonly known as Jumbie Tobacco, Tabacco Zumbie,in the British Virgin Island it is also known as Cattle Tounge. in Dominica it is use for cough that is derives from a bad cold, it is drown, sweetened with honey and must not be used hot but warm, its job it to sooth the tissues in the throat where by causing the airway to open and causing the coughing to stop.
I think i find it on line check it out, and please don’t be mistaken with the herb for it is a medicinal herb, the other which is used to kill fish is looking alike and is called nivoage something like that. http://ecflora.cavehill.uwi.edu/plantdetails.php?pid=306&sn=Pluchea+carolinensis&cn=cattle+tongue%2C+cure+for+all%2C+sweet+scent%2C+tabat-diable%2C+table+djab%2C+Wild+tobacco%2C+zowey+outen&gh=shrub
well am going with the majority when i was a little girl my grandmother always had a bush remedy to give to me when am sick i remembered soon after hurricane david pass in 1979 immediately after we had that bad flu called zoukla and i think that was the bush medicene she gave me it is a very powerful herbs thanks dno for taking back memory lane now since am living foreign could you please fedex me some so i can pass it on to my children?
It is “tabac zombie” we use it cure cold in our nature island. going natural. my grand mother pass that information down to me.
This is pomade or tabac zobie very good herb for
cold
TABAC ZOBIE/POMAD (A NAME COMES BEFORE IT BUT I DONT KNOW IT
Tarback zumbi
Taback Zombie….used to crush the leaves in a river pool…and all the fish, crayfish and lush would start acting funky, then you could just pick them out of the water….and they’d be safe to eat
Sorry but that not the same herbs, Taba Zombie has a nice smell.
tabac zombie
Mutant Marijuana?
Would love to know the scientific name for this herb, actually I took some photos of this plant only a few weeks ago to put on a web site am doing on medicinal herbs in the Caribbean,would be grateful if any one can help. it is good to know the creole name but by knowing the scientific name can help with research on line. what i know for its name is TABACZOMBIE and in some Caribbean Countries it is called CATTLE TONG.
Comfrey, is the scientific name
Thanks but I found it, is is “Pluchea carolinensis”
Some people smoke it ,but the real use for this outrageous plant the tabac zombie is mainly used as an Cold & flu medicine
it is uses for cold and fever when you drink it you swet and cough out the cold
Tabac zombie, used to treat the common cold.
Zombie Tobacco, used to help cure asthma.
Non other than the famous Tabac Zombie. Also called Tabac Jacko or Tabac Mouton. Excellent cold medicin, especially when there is a cough and and/or Hoarseness resulting from Cold.
this plant is sage
ta bac zombie
Tabac zombie.
Tabac Zombie Also known as ghost tobacco.
Teas and compresses prepared from it’s fresh or dried leaves are good for digestive system, headaches, toothaches, sore throat, catarrh, flatulence, high blood pressure and rashes. Tabac Zombie is considered to be an antiseptic.
They also puff it, to get a high.
i’m going with sage. not sure of it’s local name.
You are wrong, this is not Sage,
Tabac Zombie. When you hoarse your mother make Tabac Zombie tea for you.
ASTERACEAE – Pluchea carolinensis
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae – Aster family
Genus Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G. Don
“Cure-for-all”, also known as sourbush, sweetscent, wild tabacco, cattle tongue, salvia, sauge rouge, guerit-tout, tabak djab, zówèy mouten, tabac Zombie is a shrub 1 to 3 m in height and up to 6 cm in basal stem diameter.
Benefits. “Cure-for-all” has an excellent ability to colonize and stabilize disturbed areas and act as a nurse crop for later-successional species. Although not specifically reported, as other members of the family, it probably provides a source of nectar and pollen for honeybees and other insects. It has several herbal applications including aromatic baths, control of fever, treatment of uterine fibroids, relief of sore throat and stomach pain, poultices for wounds and skin ulcers, as an analgesic, and for the treatment of malaria (Balick and others 2000, Liogier 1990, Vélez and van Overbeek 1950). Analgesic and antiinflammatory effects have been demonstrated in laboratory trials with rats (Gavilán-Yodú and Hechavarría 2002). Above all it makes a great tasting tea!
We use it make tea when we have the cold or not.
Jumbie Tobacco
That is high leaf, but it is no ordinary high leaf, it is the one you give to the Jumbi to put in his pipe to smoke! then when he cough, you feel it in your chest that is why it is good for chest ailments. a.k.a Tabak Zobie!!!!
tabac zonbie“jombie tobacco” or Cattle tongue. Very good bush for cold
tabak zombie
the HERB!!!!!!
tabak zombie aka jumbie tobacco, its really good for the common cold
That is tabac zombie.
Not sage, same texture though. Sage leaves are much more narrow and tabak zombie is much thicker.
Thats a young lettuce plant
u neva see a lettuce plant man lolol
Are you trying to get free information to write a book? Well I want my percentage of the procedes. Here you go: This is Tabak Zombie otherwise Known as Feye Pomard. If your wife notices that you are acting badly she can simply tie abundle of these fragrant leaves and branches to form something like a broom and wip you thoroughly while naked. This will surely get the devil out of a man.
tabac jumbie
mariju…srry i mean tabac zobie
The original Tylenol, LOL! tabak zombie.
Zowey mouton/tabac zonbie
Jumbie tobacco
Locally called tabac zombie. I remember when I was a little girl I didn’t want to get near it because I thought the little bumps on the leaves were insect eggs! (Don’t ask… :lol:)
what do i get if i win huh?
You will be gaining knowledge and we in the Diaspors who forget will also get to learn about the different type of herbs on the Island I hope DNO continue with this exercise because some of us forget their names.
Thanks DNO
I love your reply to this person.
allu sort, dat is an apple tree
get outa here
gumbie tobacco
I see that many times before, but sadly dunno the name.
Oregano, and it is used for adding flavor to foods and also as a medicine for colds, flu, asthma, chest congestion and even fungal infection.
Ok so I went to the kitchen to sniff the oregano to see if it smells like tabac zombie,sadly I don’t remember what it smells like,but I believe you.
This is not oregano, look at again only if is a different specie
fete pomade, or most commonly known as tabac zombie, its good for chronic chest cold… you boil it, place it in a cup or large mouthed bottle and place in the refrigerator, before bedtime,sweeten some with honey or brown sugar… the best flu medicine
This comment seams to give the most correct details about this herb. In fact most comments are correct.
u mean seems!!!!
…unless you were referring to the seams in your pants….
tabac zombie
feye pomade
this feye pomade, (pomade leaf) was commonly used for colds by my parents. I drank lots of this in the ’60’s and 70’s. Good drink.
jumbiee tobacco or tabak zombiee its good for the cold
borjay, the leaf of the tobacco i see the loogawoo and the sookooyah smoking.
i see all kind of little elf dancing in the smoke. their eyes were red self – high leaf dat
It looks like sage
JUMBI TOBACCO BETTER KNOWN AS TABAC ZOMBIE MOSTLY USED FOR FLU AND THERE IS OTHER PURPOSES CANT REMEMBER BUT ITS A VERY GOOD BUSH
Thank u I didnt know the correct name.
tabac zobie … duh….
Tabak Zombie
its tabac zombie
TABAC ZOBIE (POMAD)
That sure looks like a coconut tree.
u de best
are u sick
I bet is a banana plant you wanted to say.
It’s a sage plant
tabac zombie..
It’s used to make tea I can’t spell the name I know it by…something like semaquater…I think lol
maji
tabac zombie
…that one have me beaten…
looks like “go jahy”…for spicing up a good sankoach…but I am not sure..
has colour of gojhy but gojhy leaf is thicher and rubbery-like
It looks like ‘Tabac Zombie’ to me…….
this is called tabac zombi in patios
ta’bak zormbi or jumbi tobaco is the name of the plant.
Tabac Zobie – Jombie Tobacco
We use the tea to remedy cough and chest colds – drink warm not hot.
Planten for high blood pressure?
its called the worm bush (semen controis)
stupes…when u hear people talking about bush doh open your mouth eh…
i know it as tabac zombie in patois. i grew up knowing that name it is good for the common flu too.
It looks like sage!
tar-back-zorbee….( hope I spell it properly)
tabac zobie “jombie tobacco”