Mexican tea

Meaning

Noun

• A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, usually Ephedra trifurca (species), used to make an herbal tea
• Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides (species)

Related

Similar words

• Brigham tea, cowboy tea, desert tea, ephedra, jointfir, Mormon tea, popotillo, squaw tea, teamster tea
• wormseed, Jesuit's tea, payqu (paico), epazote, herba sancti Mariae, Jerusalem oak, drug wormseed

Origin

• One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.