Mugworts

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Artemisia species, also known as mugwort.

That's a sort of a rude name, isn't it? Mugwort.

It sounds like something out of Harry Potter.

I like it in a tincture because you can deliver it slowly, add it in.

I like Artemisia.

It's part of a lot of our herbal protocols.

It's in my G-Eckler 4 and G-Eckler 1, so I like it.

screened 46 botanical extracts against Babesia duncani in vitro.

That means in a test tube.

Identify Cryptolepis, Artemisia, Scutellaria, that's the skullcap.

Polygonium, that's the resveratrol compound.

They would use some chemical herbs like hot peppers to give a hot sensation to the skin.

or use even bags of warm rice to heat up larger areas so moxibustion is a very broad field that has always been combined with acupuncture more specifically nowadays we use the word moxibustion to address a specific method of using a herb Artemisia argil or Artemisia vulgaris which we put on the skin and let it burn.

So it gives a quite pointy heat sensation, a little bit similar to an acupuncture needle, but instead of the metal, we use the heat.

So what is it about the heat that activates the acupuncture points?

Any other guess? No.

Artemisia.

Oh, yeah.

because we did some wormwood we mentioned that silver this that soft kind of silver um sure like in the annual world you might use like a um dusty miller yep or a centauria or something silver swirl but you know in a perennial garden the artemisia is for sure what was what's the one i like with the bigger leaves i don't know it's like the lady's name

Funny story about Artemisia.

Tell me about it.

There was a lady that stopped in the greenhouse a couple years ago and wanted to know if we had it.

I'm going to look that

Yes, absolutely.

So the scientific name is Artemisia vulgaris.

And it's so interesting when you look at like mugwort and from an English perspective as well, it was used as a healing charm.

So tell me a little bit about what you typically use mugwort for in your practice and in your personal life.

And basically it's because of its medieval name and its historical use was used for digestive and gynecological concerns.

But then it extended, of course, a lot more into like dream work as well as we established.

The scientific word Artemisia vulgaris is really when you look at the other Artemisia plants, Many plants can be called mugwort, but specifically the mugwort we're talking about is the Artemisia vulgaris.

But Artemisia in general, right, has essential oils that are also found in camphor, cineole, and thujone.

Not found commonly in Peru.

It has an Artemisia annua, what's called sweet Annie, sweet Artemisia from China.

And it has elegant pain, which comes out of Africa.

Okay.

Wormwood ranks number three.

Again, Nobel Prize won for this amazing compound, Artemisia, found in wormwood.

Number two are probiotics, and I would go very high dose, and I would take one that has espalardi, that's a beneficial yeast.

That's number two for killing parasites.