Canadian wild ginger (Asarum canadense L., Aristolochiaceae) is a perennial understory herb native to deciduous forests throughout the eastern United States and Canada (Gleason & Cronquist 1991).
7-8, the translation "asarum, centaury, and balsam wood, of each one mithqal" should be corrected to "asarum, centaury, and balsam wood, of each two mithqals," as the text has [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE EN ASCII].
"Some of the TCMs contained plants of the genus Ephedra and Asarum. These plants contain chemicals that can be toxic if the wrong dosage is taken, but none of them actually listed concentrations on the packaging.
If you have such an area, then why not carpet it with the dark, glossy leaves of Asarum europaeum, or Lily of the Valley, whose white, bell-shaped flowers are sufficient reward for its invasiveness.
Herba Asari (Xixin, Manchurian Wildginger, Asarum spp.) is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb commonly used as a crude drug and an ingredient in patent medicines.
The vegetation of the Ten-Mile Creek floodplain contained plant species commonly found in wet habitat, including Acer spp., Aesculus glabra, Comus racemosa, and Ulmus americana (Table 1), Asarum canadense, Impatiens capensis, Laportea canadensis, and Lysimachia nummularia (Table 2).
These included such ordinary plants as kale, carrots and turnips, and such exotic-sounding items as dragons (Dracunculus vulgaris L.) and asarabacca (Asarum europaeum).