OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21949

mugwort

/ˈmʌɡwɜːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
artemisa
Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
altamisa • hierba de San Juan
Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
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…
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 t…
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