A type of plant or possibly a regional name for a specific herb or medicinal plant in South America.
Likely from indigenous South American languages; the exact origin and etymology are uncertain due to limited documentation. The word appears in various regional and folk contexts suggesting it may be a plant name that passed into Spanish and Portuguese from native languages.
Many traditional plant names from South America have uncertain origins because indigenous knowledge was passed orally and recorded haphazardly by colonizers—cachila might be one of dozens of medicinal plants we still don't fully understand.
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