View photos of the medicinal plant Menyanthes trifoliata (Bogbean), profiled in Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States.

A passage from Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States:

Nicely suited as a restoring agent of normal gastric response, use Bogbean daily before meals if recovering from gastrointestinal surgery, feeding tube removal, or even anorexia nervosa/orthorexia. The main premise here is to use the herb in order to reestablish the gut’s natural reaction to food.