The Mexican Tagetes lucida is a beautiful, bright green perennial herb
from the Sierra Mandre Oaxaca mountains of Mexico.

Mexican Tarragon has a very mild anise flavor and a sweet taste.
In Mexico, it is traditionally used as a tea to calm stomachs, relax
nerves and to alleviate the symptoms of a hangover. The leaves are dried and ground into a powder then used for flavoring soups, sauces etc.

The leaves were also an important flavoring of 'chocolate', the foaming cocoa-based drink of the Aztecs.A strong Tagetes lucida tea is said to produce similar closed-eye-images as Peyote or a very mild state of euphoria.