Mugwort

Artemisia was the sister and woman of the Greek/Persian king Mausolus and they governed after its death in 353 B.C. over Halicarnssus and this surroundings. Round her to honour they built a tremendous tomb, called Mausoleum, that one is of the seven world wound.
Artemisia was also a famous plant expert and medical investigation star. Two hundred, almost all aromatic plants, are of the slaughtered Artemisia and are to her named.

Culpeper ordered wakes is the herb at for all stomach problems, the appearance of nastiness after the meal and it the appetite on, but as it too strong, spoils it the taste.

In the Middle Ages one thought that John the Baptist carried a wreath of Mugwort around his means and therefore names one the plant also well Saint-Jhonsroot. The root of Mugwort was nailed against the wall of a house round to banish the devil or other wicked person minds. There also were braided wreathe by Mugwort at a house or shed affirmed to protect it against fire and flash of lightning impact.
Mugwort becomes used wanted to tidy up from way back round to let travellers and to protect them against wicked person minds and savage animals. Roman soldiers laid it in their sandals against painful feet, hence the name 'by' -foot. In 1656, William of Col wrote: "As an infantryman it in the mornings in its shoes lays, can he before noon 40 miles take off without to become tired."
Mugwort became used by poor men as tobacco, separate or with other herbs. Also beer was seasoned with Mugwort.

Housekeep / General.
Mugwort drives away insects, especially moths.
Mugwort under the cushion protects against nightmares.
In China by Mugwort, therapeutic bars (moxa bars) are made and become used in the acupuncture.
The incense becomes used with ritual cleaning of men and space. Incense self (all Artemisia kinds are suitable) you pick to make come the buttons, straight for they in bloom. Make pieces of equal length (approximately 15 cm) and let they approximately two days dry. A bundle of 2.5 cm section make and bind they together with cotton thread (use no art fibre). Light a sharp, bladder the flame from and late the bars smoulder.


Medicinal.
As a medical herb, one uses the leaves and the in the flowering time collected plant.

Mugwort becomes used from way back as a means against worms and must then during long time in a low quantity be taken in. Mugwort arouses the appetite, stimulates the digestion and helps also by the rise bring of the menstruation. The Chinese herb knowledge uses to heat the herb mainly for the reproductions organs, the uterus, to stop blood or to brake blood by a too long menstruation cycle off.

Missing during a long, tiring walk to Mugwort. Jackdaw on single leaves or flower top and your tiredness will take off, because the bitter aromatic matters clarify your mind and look.

Working and character.
Stimulating for the nervous system, menstruation cheerful and regulating, sweat drijvend, galopwekkend.

External.
Kompressen of Mug root vinegar are good by bruising and lit joints.

Internal.
- By lowered and painful menstruation. By irregular menstruation with little blood loss.
- In beginning stages of colds and fevers.
- By indigestion with little appetite and stomach cramps.
- By nastiness with heavy headache.
- By depression with liver and bowels disturbances.
- Against nervousness with weakened men.
- Usefully by arthritis and gout.
- With bowels worms.

Quantity.
Of the tea, daily an or two heads, by fever each four hour a half head.
Of the tincture three time daily 2 until 5 ml.
By tiredness slow jackdaws on three or four leaves.




Applications with ethereal oil.
It is a colour lynx smell till light yellow liquid with a bitter-sweet, kamfer like. Through the high thujon content is the oil poisonous and arranged therefore less for use in the aroma therapy.

Ethereal oil of Mugwort can become used o. a. by: disturbances in the menstruation, hooked, tired feet, falling illness, cramps, flatulent and worm infections. Mugwort can irritate skin and mucous membranes.

Here single applications of the ethereal oil of Mugwort follow.

By tired feet
Mix 10 drops Mugwort with a little bit milk, cream or honey. Join this mixture closed at a warm footbath and bathe here 15 minutes with.

Evaporate
6 until 10 drops Mugwort in the aroma lamp make decisions take easy and are a support in the back by to undertake walk.

In the plant present matters.
Ethereal oil (0.2%, head constituents cineool and thujon), Vulgarine ( a sesquinterpeenlactone), Flavnoiden (quercitine-3-rhamnoglucoside and 5,3-dihydroxy-3,7,4- trimethoxyflavone), Cumarine derivates (7,8-methylendioxy-9-methoxycoumarine), Triterpenen ( o. a. 27,28-dionic acid, b-amyrin and b-sitosterol ) and bitters matter.


Active constituents in the Ethereal oil.
Cineool, thujon linlool, l,8-cineool, b-thujon, borneol, a- and b- pineen, nerol, neryl acetate, linalyl acetate, myrceen, vulgarool, a-, b- and g-cadinol, cadinenol, muurolol, spathulenolen.

Use no Mugwort during the pregnancy and by the giving of breast-feeding.
Do not use it long in succession without the advice of a physician.
Because of the high thujon content is the ethereal oil poisonous and arranged therefore less for use in the aroma therapy

The leaf of Mugwort becomes used for stuffing’s. It can also become used in stoof- and meat dish.

It come world-wide 200 Artemisia kinds for. These comparable applications vary only in strength. Mugwort is the most generous and safest for own use. They are often alone through connoisseurs from each other to hold.
In North America, Artemisia kinds become sometimes wrongly with sage confused.

Alsem (Artemisia absinthium) counts as the strongest kind. Small quantities alsem give vermouth and other aperitifs their taste.

Sweet alsem (Artemisia annua) is prescribed in China and Africa against malaria. The curing effect is attributed at the contents matter Artemisinin (a sesquiterpenoid lactone endoperoxide).

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