Mugwort

Mugwort is a bitter digestive that relieves stomach acidity, dyspepsia, indigestion, travel sickness and acute bowel and stomach pain.   It also soothes the nerves, reduces tension and insomnia. Mugwort is beneficial for female complaints, easing menstrual cramps and painful menopausal symptoms, and it also improves liver and gallbladder function.

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History:
Mugwort is a native of temperate Europe and Asia and was introduced to the Americas, where it grows on roadsides, riverbanks and in vacant lots and waste places, thriving in well-drained, neutral-to-slightly-alkaline soil in sun and growing to a height of six feet.  It is an aromatic, multi-branched shrubby perennial with red-brown stems, bearing deeply cut, dark green leaves (that are downy white underneath) and clusters of yellow-to-red-brown flower heads that bloom from July to September.  It is one of the few palatable wormwoods of the Artemisia family, and its botanical genus, Artemisia, is derived from Artemis, the Greek name for Diana, who is said to have found the plants and delivered their powers to the centaur. In ancient Greece, the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates (circa 400 B.C.), and the first-century physician, Dioscorides, prescribed Mugwort as a specific to ease and hasten childbirth, and the herb was frequently mentioned in first-century Greek and Roman writings. Legend claims that the Romans planted Mugwort on roadsides, so that passing soldiers might put it in their sandals on long marches to soothe sore feet, and herbalists still recommend it in footbaths to invigorate tired feet. Mugwort appears in Chinese medical literature dating back to A.D. 500, and was used to ease rheumatism and is still used for acupuncture points on the skin.  In Ayurvedic medicine, Mugwort has been used for the female reproductive system, nervous complaints and as a wash for fungal infections.  Legend tells us that in the wilderness,

Saint John the Baptist wore a cingulum, or belt, that was woven from Mugwort, giving us several of its common names, Saint John's Plant and Cingulum Sancti Johannis.  Moreover, another of its common names, Felon Plant, comes to us because the plant was said to draw the pus from a

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