Mugwort Herb C/S Cert. Organic (Artemisia vulgaris) 1 lb: K

This is Frontier's nitrogen-flushed double wall silverfoil pack. Some Frontier packs are double wall wax-lined paper. Used as an infusion, decoction, extract and tincture. Traditionally mugwort was primarily used for food or food additive. The stuffing for Germany's traditional baked Christmas goose is laced with Mugwort. Gruit, old-fashioned pre-hops herb beer, often contained mugwort. This bitter herb, with an interesting flavor, has an ancient reputation as an appetite stimulant. It is also a nervine emmenagogue. Its therapeutic properties are, as the Chinese say, 'warming, and hemostatic', and tonic to liver, spleen, and kidney. Daily dose of 3-9 grams of dry leaves in the form of decoction is recommended. Large dose intake was proven highly effective before the onset of malaria symptoms. Only mugwort's antimicrobial action has so far been verified in the laboratory. The very closely related Chinese Mugwort (Artemisia argyi; Artemisia verlotiorum) is the herb used in the Chinese acupoint treatment called moxibustion. In this variation of acupuncture, small cones of smoldering Mugwort are placed on the trigger points said to govern the flow of life force throughout the body. It is by redirecting and balancing this flow that moxibustion is thought to promote healing. Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'It has stimulant and slightly tonic properties, and is of value as a nervine and emmenagogue, having also diuretic and diaphoretic action.' 'Its chief employment is as an emmenagogue, often in combination with Pennyroyal and Southernwood. It is also useful as a diaphoretic in the commencement of cold.' 'It is given in infusion, which should be prepared in a covered vessel, 1 oz. of the herb to 1 pint of boiling water, and given in ½ teaspoonful doses, while warm. The infusion may be taken cold as a tonic, in similar doses, three times daily: it has a bitterish and aromatic taste.' 'As a nervine, Mugwort is valued in palsy, fits, epileptic and similar affections, being an old-fashioned popular remedy for epilepsy (especially in persons of a feeble constitution). Gerard says: 'Mugwort cureth the shakings of the joynts inclining to the Palsie;' and Parkinson considered it good against hysteria. A drachm of the powdered leaves, given four times a day, is stated by Withering to have cured a patient who had been affected with hysterical fits for many years, when all other remedies had failed.' 'The juice and an infusion of the herb were given for intermittent fevers and agues. The leaves used to be steeped in baths, to communicate an invigorating property to the water.' 'Preparations: Fluid extract, ½ to 1 drachm.'