The stem of the Mugwort is pale green, and has red ridges running from end to end.
The back of the Mugwort leaves is covered with silvery white down, and often the green edges are curled back on to this white underside.
The superstitious association of fern-seed, St. John's wort, and mugwort with Midsummer Eve is widely diffused over Europe.
Again, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is believed to possess magic qualities provided it be gathered on St. John's Eve.
Among the most efficacious family-charms is the mugwortplant (Artemisia moxa), which is hung over every doorway.
But the superstitious use of mugwort is far more ancient than any such story would imply.
In the towns about Würzburg the bonfires used to be kindled in the market-places, and the young people who jumped over them wore garlands of flowers, especially of mugwort and vervain, and carried sprigs of larkspur in their hands.
As each departed, he threw the mugwort and vervain into the fire, saying, "May all my ill-luck depart and be burnt up with these.
People on this occasion wore chaplets of mugwort and vervain, and they looked at the fire through bunches of larkspur which they held in their hands, believing that this would preserve their eyes in a healthy state throughout the year.
And for the same reason they stick burs and mugwort on the gate or the hedge through which the cows go to pasture, because that is supposed to be a preservative against witchcraft.
Looking at bonfires through mugwort a protection against headache and sore eyes, xi.
Both Mugwort and Wormwood have been highly esteemed for overcoming epilepsy in persons of a feeble constitution, and of a sensitive nervous temperament, especially in young females.
Mugwort tea, and a decoction of Wormwood, may be confidently given for the purposes just named, also to correct female irregularities.
Parkinson says: "Mugwort is of wonderful help to women in risings of the mother, or hysteria.
The Mugwort is also styled "Felon wort," or "Felon herb.
Mugwort is named from Artemis the Greek goddess of the moon, and is also called Maidenwort or Motherwort (womb wort), being a plant beneficial to the womb.
Or it may be that the term Mugwort became popularly applied because this herb was in demand for helping to preserve ale.
Pliny tells us the Daisy was used in his time with Mugwortas a resolvent to scrofulous tumours.
The herb Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), a Composite plant, is frequent about hedgerows and waste ground throughout Britain; and it chiefly merits a place among Herbal Simples because of a special medicinal use in certain female derangements.
In connection with Mugwort there is a most curious account of the formation of a plant name given in a note in the "Promptorium Parvulorum," s.
Some leaves of Mugwort are placed beneath the pillow of the patient without his knowledge.
From that time, it is said, the Mugwort obtained the additional name of Zabytko, or the Herb of Forgetfulness.
Among the ancients, the Mugwort had a reputation for efficacy in the relief of female disorders.
Plantain laid under the feet removes weariness; and with Mugwort worn beneath the soles of his feet a man may walk forty miles without tiring.
The Devil despatched certain demons to the fields where the horses were feeding, who caused Mugwort to spring up.
In Little Russia, Mugwort has obtained the name of Bech, which has a legendary etymology.
In Italy, there is still a superstitious custom extant of consulting Mugwort as to the probable ending of an illness.
To make a child mery hange a bondell of mugwort or make smoke thereof under the chylde's bedde for it taketh away annoy for hem.
Of mugwort we read in the Herbarium of Apuleius, "And if a root of this wort be hung over the door of any house then may not any man damage the house.
In the older herbals numerous herbs are mentioned as being of special virtue when used as amulets to protect the wayfaring man from weariness, but Gerard mentions only two--mugwort and Agnus castus.
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), wreaths of, at Midsummer, i.
In Mecklenburg, they say that if you will dig up a plant of mugwort at noon on Midsummer Day, you will find under the root a burning coal, which vanishes away as soon as the church bells have ceased to ring.
In England mugwort is very common in waste ground, hedges, and the borders of fields.
In the towns about Wuerzburg the bonfires used to be kindled in the market-places, and the young people who jumped over them wore garlands of flowers, especially of mugwort and vervain, and carried sprigs of larkspur in their hands.
It feeds on the flowers of wormwood and mugwort (Artemisia), from August to October.
The caterpillar, which feeds on the flowers and seeds of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and will eat mugwort (A.
Take of syrup of mugwort one ounce, syrup of maiden-hair two ounces, pulv-elect triasand one drachm; make a julep.
Boil mugwort in water till it be very soft, then take it out, and apply it in the manner of a poultice to the navel of the labouring woman, and it instantly brings away the birth.
Take one ounce of myrrh lozenges, half an ounce each of castor, astrolachia, gentian and dittany and make them into a powder, and take one drachm in four ounces of mugwort water.
Hitrae, half an ounce of diacatholicon, one ounce of syrup of roses and laxative, and make a draught with a decoction of mugwort and the four cordial flowers.
Make an infusion of hyssop, bay leaves, bay berries, calamint, camomiles, mugwort and savine.
The Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a very common roadside plant in most districts, valued by many villagers as a remedy for rheumatism.
On dry banks by the wayside we may commonly meet with the Crosswort or Mugwort (Galium Cruciatum) of the Bed-straw Family (Rubiaceae).
Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled for women to apply the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth, and expel the after-birth.
Such being the state of affairs with the Princess Hitachi, the grounds of her mansion became more and more desolate and wild, the mugwort growing so tall that it reached the veranda.
In Germany the juniper disperses evil spirits, and in ancient times the black hellebore, peony, and mugwort were largely used for this purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mugwort" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
