wild ginger
See 1830 quote.
- 1830  (1837)  Wild Ginger [is] a small perennial herbaceous plant, with a few broad kidney-shaped leaves on long footstalks and in pairs [Asarum canadense].
- 1947  She talked of . . . the virtues of the bark of swamp alder, of wild ginger for stomach-ache. . . .