Asarum europaeum, or Asarabacca, European Wild Ginger, Haselwort, and Wild Spikenard, is a European species of wild ginger with single axillary dull purple flowers, lying on the ground. The stems are 10-15 cm long. The leaves are petiolate and reniform and about 10 cm wide. It occurs mostly in deciduous woodland or coniferus forests. In former days, it was used in snuff. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Young castor oil plant showing its prominent two embryonic leaves (cotyledons), that differ from the adult leaves Dicotyledons or dicots is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Aristolochiaceae Hydnoraceae Lactoridaceae Piperaceae Saururaceae The Piperales are an order of flowering plants. ... Genera See text The Aristolochiaceae, or the Birthworth family, are a family of flowering plants with 7 genera and about 400 species belonging to the order Piperales. ... Asarum can mean: Wild ginger Asarum Parish This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Species See text. ...
Asarum was traditionally used as an antiemetic and antitussive.
Today, Asarum is used as an anti-inflammatory for a wide variety of conditions, especially those involving the respiratory tract such as bronchitis and asthma.
Asarum is an emmenagogue and abortifacient and may lead to SAB if used during pregnancy.
Asarum may be added to cough mixtures, and with syrup forms a very agreeable vehicle for the administration of pectoral medicines to be used in the chronic coughs of debility to aid expectoration." There is also a European variety, Asarumeuropaeum, which is not widely used: it acts as an emetic and cathartic.
Asarum was widely utilized in the Shanghan Lun, the earliest existing formula guide of the Chinese tradition, and it occurs in many traditional formulas that have been passed down to modern times, recorded in major herb guides.
Since asarum has a strong acrid and aromatic flavor and dispersive action, it is contraindicated in patients with profuse sweating due to qi deficiency, headache due to yin deficiency leading to hyperactive yang, and cough due to deficient yin and lung heat.
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