This tree is from mexico and when the spanish settlers realized its properties they called this flat cascara sagrada.This plant lives in hot and semi-dry climates, also shaky climates.It is wild and is associated with the tropical deciduous and sub-deciduous forest, mesophilic forest, thorny forest, oak and pine forest.Medicinal properties: diabetes, gastric problems, bile, facilitates the digestion of food, gallstones, cirrhosis, liver, jaundice, insomnia, cancer, weight loss, eliminates toxins, nutritional, laxative in low doses, laxative in higher doses, etc.External use: hair, skin, headache, colic, abdominal pain, etc.Toxicity: not recommended for use without your doctor’s consent.