Chromolaena odorata plant is used to prepare a purification bath, a bath of offal and to clean houses that require removing evil and spells. To prepare the purification for people, the rompezaragüey is cooked with rue, parsley, apasote, pine nut, paradise and scorpion. Mixed with victor, it serves to ward off evil and find the spiritual path. It is also used in the African-American religion palo mayombe, to prepare the seven purification baths of the future initiate. The albahaquilla of Cuba? or saragüey breaker, is a shrub of the sunflower family native to North America, from Florida and Texas to Mexico and the West Indies. It measures 30 to 35 cms. 2 . Hector Lavoe Song (1975)