A Plant Whisperer Shares the Best Traditional Latin American Remedies For Bug Bites

This plant has many healing abilities. Ayala explains it was commonly used by indigenous peoples all the way from Alaska, Canada, and the U.S. to Northern Mexico, both as a mosquito repellent and as a poultice for wounds, cuts, and soars. Native Americans were said to boil the flowers and use the water as the repellant.