🪶Indigenous / Native American
Wild Ginger (Native)
Asarum canadense
About Wild Ginger (Native)
Wild Ginger (Native) (Asarum canadense) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Digestive Issues, Headache, Nausea, and Fever. The rhizome is the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Asarum canadense, commonly known as Canada wild ginger, Canadian snakeroot, and broad-leaved asarabacca, is a herbaceous, perennial plant which forms dense colonies in the understory of deciduous forest throughout its native range in eastern North America, from the Great Plains east to the Atlantic Coast, and from southeastern Canada south to around the fall line in the southeastern United States.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Rhizome · both