Asarabacca - Medical Treatment and uses of Asarabacca Herb

Latin description: Asarum europaeum

Common Name: Hazelwort, Haselwurz (Ger), Wild Nard, European Snakeroot, Public House Plant

Parts Used: Rhizomes and leaves.

Medcinal Uses and Benefits of Asarabacca

• Leaves are errhine, cathartic and emetic. As an errhine leaves are combined with lance-leaved plantain to eliminate mucous from nose and respiratory passages.
• "Nastoika" (the rhizome with vodka) is used for scrofula (tuberculosis of the lymph glands of the neck), heart palpitation, failure to thrive in children, mushroom poisoning, for difficult digestion, migraine, alcoholism
• Has been given to women in childbirth when nervous exhaustion was apparent.
• Tonic, stimulant, carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic, purgative; used basically as an emetic.
• Tea from the leaves has been used for heart trouble.
• Decoction of the rhizome has been used as an expectorant for vomiting.
• Dried and powdered leaves were once used in the preparation of cephalic snuffs which caused sneezing and gave relief to headache and weak eyes.
• In the folk medicine of Bello-Russia (White Russia) the rhizomes are used as expectorant, laxative, for jaundice and dropsy, to promote milk in nursing mothers, heart trouble, tuberculosis, nervous excitement, migraine.
• The leaves have been used for malaria.
• Has been used for colds, bowel and stomach spasms, whooping cough, and fever.