herb Gerard en · NOUN
Etymology
Named after St. Gerard of Toul, who used to be invoked against the gout.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
[…] Calamint given inwardly, Betony, Elecampane, Master-wort or the Herb Gerard given inwardly […]
1720, E. R. (Gent.), “Things good in general for Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews”, in The Experienc'd Farrier; Or, Farring Compleated, page 257:GOUT WORT, the herb Gerard, Ashweed and Jump-about.
1731, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: