The Toothache Plant!! If you’re familiar with this plant and tasted the buds you will know what I’m talking about!! Found across most tropical areas, these flowers called as buttons are a cluster of many tiny flowers. When chewed, this flower has a numbing affect in the mouth. This local anaesthetic is due to spilanthol, the active ingredient. Not only does it have a numbing effect, it also leads of excessive salivation and used to treat a dry mouth. It has been used in folk medicine in treating

Does Toothache Tree have a toxic lookalike? Yes, I would say so. My downloadable guide for Toothache Tree is available amongst many others on my Patreon! (Link in my bio) Talking about lookalikes is always nuanced. What I think looks like something may not be what you think. I always try to do my best to imagine what a pure beginner might mistake for something else. I can definitely see someone having trouble with Toothache Trees (Zanthoxylum) and Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). I showed th