Mugwort Tea
100% Certified Organic Australian Grown Mugwort is a bitter tonic tradiationally used for strengthening digestion as well as improving the appetite.
Grown by Highland Herbs Tasmania.
100% Certified Organic Australian Grown Mugwort is a bitter tonic tradiationally used for strengthening digestion as well as improving the appetite.
Grown by Highland Herbs Tasmania.
Botanical Name: Artemisia vulgaris
Plant Family: Asteraceae
Plant description: Mugwort is an herb with a long history of uses in both traditional Western and Chinese medicine. It is used in magic and ceremonial practices. Mugwort grows to 1.8 m tall. The undersides of the leaves are downy and whitish, green above, pinnate or bi-pinnate with toothed leaflets. The brownish yellow to red flowers, are many and small, arranged in panicles towards the top of the plant.
Part used: Leaf and flower
Harvest: The leaf should be harvested when the plant comes into flower.
Active Constituents: Phenolic acids, coumarins, flavonoids, essential oil (including thujone), sesquiterpene lactones.
Energetics: Pungent, bitter, heating.
Actions: Bitter tonic, emmenagogue, choleretic, anthelmintic, appetite stimulant.
Uses: Mugwort has traditionally used for poor appetite, nervous indigestion, weakened digestion, delayed or inadequate menstruation, painful periods and intestinal worms.
Dosage: Infusion – pour one cup of boiling water over one teaspoon of dried herb and drink after five minutes. Drink up to one cup three times per day. Fluid Extract (1:2) – 15— 30m/week
Cautions: Contraindicated in pregnancy and lactation.
Interactions: None known
Grown by Highland Herbs Tasmania.
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