N.M. researchers hope to cultivate 'calming herb'

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 05:42 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical. The native herb yerba mansa, translated from Spanish as the "calming herb," has been used medicinally for centuries throughout the Southwest by American Indians and Hispanics to treat ailments ranging from toothaches to sinus infections.

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