A South American plant (Bowiea volubilis or similar species) with medicinal and nutritional uses, sometimes used traditionally in Andean regions.
From Aymara or Quechua languages of South America, borrowed into Spanish and English to describe plants indigenous to the Andes.
Indigenous peoples of the Andes discovered that this plant could treat certain skin conditions centuries before modern medicine could explain why—it turns out it contains compounds that actually do have healing properties!
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