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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

erba

English translation:

St. John's wort

Added to glossary by Henry Vaughan
Sep 23, 2001 01:53
23 yrs ago
Spanish term

erba

Spanish to English Science
Herb in a list of ingredients of a herbal infusion.
Proposed translations (English)
4 San John's Wort
4 typo! erba=italian for herb!
4 herba tal
3 ¿yerba (mate)?

Proposed translations

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San John's Wort

Erba Trona (Italian)= Hierba de San Juan (Spanish) = San John's Wort (English)

Just a possibility...

Please see link below.

Greetings and good luck from: Oso :^)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all of you, but after looking at your reference Oso, I think yours is the right translation in the context of herbal infusions. Would it be St. John's wort?"
13 mins

typo! erba=italian for herb!

good luck
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3 hrs

herba tal

Not only did they leave off the h, they left off the word telling us which herb.
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7 hrs

¿yerba (mate)?

Hola. Could be another typo type: a 'y' missing. Yerba Mate, Yerba Mora, Yerba del Toro, etc. La Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguayensis) is very popular in SouthAm and it's called often just "yerba". Check this out: "Mate ...se usa tanto para descansar, apagar la sed, despabilar y hasta ordenar estómagos... En el Río de la Plata, el uso de ésta voz es más restringido es su aceptación de fruto, pues con el nombre de mate sólo se designa la variedad empleada para preparar y servir la infusión de yerba, variedad que se llamó caiguá - recipiente para el agua de la yerba - en guaraní...". Check what the infusion is good for first, if it's "... usado por la medicina popular y empleado en preparaciones herbáreas comerciales como estimulante del sistema nervioso central, como diurético y anti reúmatico" (link 2) we might be onto sth here. If not, then hey! I know now which tea I'll try next week...Luck :-)
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