"Canotillo" is an herb. Maybe I am spelling it wrong?
canotillo an herb good for the kidneys. what is the correct spelling and what is it called in English?
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I only found one reference on the web. It lists Canotillo as "piper" in English. It notes that Canotillo is Costa Rican Spanish. The website is here. It appears that "kava kava" is the common herb name that you would use.
Canutillo (Equisetum hyemale L. )
“Dutch Rush”, “Scouring Rush”.
The rhizomes not tuberous. The shoots all green and alike vegetatively, the sterile and cone-bearing shoots emerging at the same time. It is a species of horsetail native to moist forests, forest edges and stream banks, swamps and fens throughout the Holarctic Kingdom.
Some Plateau Indian tribes boiled the stalks to produce a drink used as a diuretic and to treat venereal disease.
