▪ Abstract Traditional herbal remedies have increased in popularity in Europe and the United
States in recent years but have always been important to people living in rural Mexico and to
their Mexican American/Chicano descendants in the United States. Mexican American
patients will often be ingesting herbal teas at the same time that they are being treated for
their ailments with antibiotics or antiinflammatory agents. The plant family Asteraceae
(Compositae) has contributed the largest number of plants to this pharmacopoeia; the …