Meaning
A strongly aromatic low herb (culantro / fitweed) with long saw-toothed leaves and a pungent coriander-like smell, used both to season food and in bush medicine. As 'spirit weed' or 'fitweed' it is brewed as a tea to calm the nerves, ease 'fits' and convulsions, and, in folk practice, to guard against bad spirits.
Examples
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Season di soup wid spirit-weed.
Season the soup with culantro.
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Dem gi di baby fitweed tea fi di convulsion.
They gave the baby fitweed tea for the convulsions.
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Di spirit-weed smell strong like coriander.
The culantro smells strong like coriander.
Origin
Folk names 'spirit weed'/'fitweed' for culantro (Eryngium foetidum), from its use against 'fits' and spirits. See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].
How it’s used
Culantro/fitweed — a pungent seasoning and nerve/anti-'fit' bush tea. See [[cerasee]], [[jack-inna-bush]].