A genus of small creeping plants, sometimes called rupturewort, historically used in folk medicine to treat hernias.
From Latin hernia (rupture) plus the suffix -aria (related to), because the plant was believed to cure hernias.
Medieval healers named this plant based on what they thought it could cure—talk about optimistic naming! Though sometimes folk remedies actually work!
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