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.

• Skin care
• Adenomyosis
• Hepatitis b c
• Chronic renal failure
• Alemtuzumab
• Gardnerella vaginitis
• Disease condition k
• Chest injuries
• Microalbuminuria
• Symptom of head louse

Health Tip

Foods high in substances called purines increase levels of uric acid in the blood, and foods to be avoided include poultry, strawberries, shellfish, game, caffeine and alcohol.