Mugwort

Quick meaning: Mugwort is a noun meaning Any of species Artemisia vulgaris of plants native to temperate Eurasia and north Africa, traditionally used medicinally.

Meaning

Any of species Artemisia vulgaris of plants native to temperate Eurasia and north Africa, traditionally used medicinally.

More Meanings

1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Eurasia, Africa, and North America.

Example Sentences

Take then mugwort and everlasting and boil these three in several kinds of milk until they become red.

“I have eaten mugwort,” he told his familiar. “Soon I shall see down the well of time; our past lies there.”

Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.

Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.

Word Forms

• mugworts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include artemisia, tarragon, mingwort, motherwort, wormwood, swallow-wort.

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