Common mugwort - herb - 50g

Plant description

Asteraceae plant species, native areas of its occurrence are Europe, a large part of Asia as well as Algeria and Tunisia.  

Properties

- medicinal plant: similar to wormwood, only much weaker

- once used in folk medicine, but is not on the official list of medicinal plants

- the herb and root contain essential oils, resin, bitterness and compounds with bacteriostatic and anti-cancer effect

- used for gastrointestinal complaints; with flatulence, anesthesia, intestinal spine, catarrh and stomach ache

- improves appetite and facilitates the absorption of food - for this reason it is especially recommended for children and convalescents

- used in a herbal blend with yarrow, chamomile, basil and marjoram.

- used for liver diseases - for this purpose, however, infusions made from a mixture of herbs containing mugwort, peppermint, tarragon, dandelion, juniper and rosehip are more effective

- Artemisia should not be used by pregnant women, nursing women and people with gastrointestinal bleeding, severely weakened, with appendicitis or hemorrhoids

- in traditional Chinese medicine fever was fought and smoke from roasted herbs was reportedly treating asthmatics

- culinary art: used as a very aromatic and bitter seasoning for meat dishes, cabbage and mushroom dishes as well as vegetable and onion soups

 - in larger quantities it is poisonous

- the herb suspended in the stable scares away the flies, and put in the dog kennel scares away the fleas

- roasted herb repels mosquitoes