Scientifically known as Fouquieria splendens, this plant has plenty of medicinal uses. Its healing potential includes remedying symptoms of fluid congestion, bettering visceral lymph drainage, improving the absorption of dietary fat into the lymph system, relieving fatigue, and alleviating coughs, achy limbs, varicose veins, urinary tract infections, cervical varicosities, and benign prostate growths.

The Ocotillo is a large shrub featuring long cane-like spiny stems growing from a short trunk with small 2-inch leaves and red tubular flowers. Flourishing in mesas, rocky slopes, washes, and desert grasslands, this spiny plant grows up to 20 feet tall and can be used as fencing to deter people and animals from passing through it.