feverweed
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feverweed noun A perennial wild plant (Eryngium aquaticum) from whose roots a tea is made to reduce fever.
1937 Hall Coll (Big Creek NC) Fever weed breaks the fever on a body. 1949 Arnow Hunter’s Horn 373 She wanted to give all the others a round of molasses and wormseed and sulpher now, and then, just before they went to bed, some good strong tea made with life everlasting, sweet fennel, ratbane, and feverweed, for every last one of them was wormy as could be and full of cold.