It has enjoyed fame as it plants medicinal in Puebla, Veracruz and Chiapas. In order to cure the headache they use the alcoholic infusion of the fresh leaves or of average flower to give massages or commonly called you mop. For postemillas, encías ulceradas and paperas, is recommended to cook or to crush the leaves, to put them in the affected part. For the cases of asthma the leaves are smoked, and for the cough, these same average is toasted to the fire and the chest and the back are placed in. For the bronchi and pain chest, the macerated one of the flowers is put on the back. Also, the leaves warmed up previously in a comal, are put like promotions in blows. In which one talks about arthritis, in a container they place the alcohol leaves, it is let rest and later with this fricciona the affected part.
Shrub of up to 3 ms of height, with extended leaves, great and rough. It has white flowers to reddish with bell form. He is original of South America and it inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm and tempering. It is of homemade culture and it lives associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, subperennifolia and perennifolia; scrub xerófilo; forests thorny, mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.