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MUGWORT
Artemisia vulgaris, L.( N. O.: Compositae)
Common Names: Mugwort, Felon Herb. Features: Mugwort grows wild in North America in hedges and waste places. A slender to moderately stout herb, 1 – 5 ft. tall; the leaves are alternate, five to seven lobes, silvery-white beneath, nearly smooth above. Flowers are small ovid, yellow to purplish, in numerous clusters from July to August. Odour aromatic, leaves slightly bitter. Medicinal Part: Leaves. Solvent: Boiling water. Bodily Influence: Emmenagogue, Diuretic, Diaphoretic. Uses: Our Indians used the leaves medicinally in decoctions for colds, colic, bronchitis, rheumatism and fever. Safe for suppressed menstruation of mother and daughter, also effective in female complaints of various nature when combined with Marigold( Calendula), Cramp bark( Viburnum opulus), Black haw( Viburnum prunifolium), and Mint( Mentha). Of importance in kidney and bladder inflammations and their many reflected ailments, gout, sciatica, water retention, etc. Culpeper used the herb for counteraction of opium. Dose: 1 teaspoonful to 1 cupful of boiling water, steeped for 20 min. To be taken in wineglassful amounts. Externally: After using a poultice of Slippery elm( Ulmus fulva), Cleavers and Bear’ s foot( Helleborus foetidus), bathe the inflammatory swelling with a strong tea of Mugwort. Some cases of tumours have been known to disappear, as well as abcesses, carbuncles and bruises, if repeated faithfully. Culpeper states:“ The fresh juice mixed with hog’ s grease and whipped into an ointment takes away wens and hard kernals that grow about the neck and throat, and eases the pain, more effective if field daisies be up with it.” The Indians also used it externally for wounds and the juice was used for poison oak. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of fresh root— Catalepsy, Chorea, Convulsions, Dysemenia, Epilepsy, Hydrocephalus, Hysteria, Somnam bulism, Worms.
MUGWORT Artemisia vulgaris, L.( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, Minsk, 1967)
Russian Experience: Polin obiknovennaya or Chernobilnik, is common to Russian people as Mugwort, which grows in all parts of Russia and was an accepted home medicine before being thought of as material for books. Folk Medicine use the leaves, roots and whole plant in female sickness of many varieties—