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Mugwort or Common Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris) is a species from the daisy family Asteraceae. It is also known as Felon Herb, St. John's Plant, and Wild Wormwood. Download high resolution version (432x756, 38 KB)Artemisia vulgaris From the book Bilder ur Nordens Flora from Project Runeberg. ...
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Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ...
Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Families See text The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers and daisies) and its related families. ...
Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ...
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Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as ▶ (help· info), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme...
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Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ...
It is native to temperate Europe and Asia. It is a very common plant growing on nitrogenous soils, like weedy and uncultivated areas, such as waste places and roadsides, and in wooded areas and wetlands. World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ...
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It is a tall herb growing up to 1.5 meters. The deep green leaves are pinnate, with white tomentose hairs on their underside. The erect stem has often a red-purplish tinge. A herb (pronounced hurb in Commonwealth English and urb in American English) is a plant grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. ...
The rather small flowers (5 mm long) are radially symmetrical with many petals. The narrow and numerous capitula (flower heads) spread out in racemose panicles. Mugwort flowers from July to September. Look up July in Wiktionary, the free dictionary July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
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Mugwort contains ethereal oils (such as cineole, or wormwood oil, and thujone), flavonoids, triterpenes, and coumarin derivatives. Eucalyptol is a natural organic compound which is a colorless liquid. ...
Species See text Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plant with about 180 species belonging to the Sunflower family Asteraceae. ...
Thujone (C10H16O) is a chemical compound. ...
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Terpenes are a class of hydrocarbons, produced by many plants, particularly conifers. ...
Coumarin is a chemical compound found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean, woodruff, and bison grass. ...
Culinary uses
The leaves and buds, best picked shortly before the plant flowers in July to September, are used as flavoring agent. Mugwort tastes slightly bitter.
Mugwort is used to season fat meat and fish. In Germany, it is mainly used to season goose, especially the roast goose traditionally eaten for Christmas. Christmas (literally, the Mass of Jesus Christ) is a traditional holiday observed on 25 December. ...
Mugwort is also used in Korea to give festive rice cakes a greenish color. Rice Cake Pounding mochi in an usu Making mochi with a modern piece of equipment Mochi (Japanese 餅), also called rice cake, is a food product prepared from glutinous rice and used as an ingredient in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cuisine. ...
In the Middle Ages Mugwort was used as part of an herbal mixture called gruit, used in the flavoring of beer before the widespread introduction of hops. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
Gruit (or sometimes grut) is an old fashioned pre-hops herb mixture used for bittering and flavoring beer. ...
Beer, generally, is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of sugars suspended in an aqueous medium, and which is not distilled after fermentation. ...
Unbeknownst to many, a hop is in fact a type of deoxidised cloth. ...
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Medicinal properties The root of the plant is used for medicinal purposes. Mugwort was used from ancient times as a remedy against fatigue and to protect travellers against evil spirits and wild animals. Roman soldiers put mugwort in their sandals to protect their feet against fatigue. Chewing some leaves will kill the fatigue and stimulate the nervous system.
Mugwort has an aromatic smell. Poor people used mugwort, sometimes mixed with other herbs, as a substitute for tobacco. It can also be smoked mixed with or as a substitute for marijuana, for it evokes a dreamy state of consciousness. Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants. ...
Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...
It was also used as an anthelminthic, so it is sometimes confused with wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Anthelmintics (in the U.S., antihelminthics) are drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminthes) from the body or kill them. ...
Binomial name Artemisia absinthium L. Absinth Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is a medicinal plant and a type of wormwood, so named because it was traditionally used to cure intestinal worms. ...
Mugwort is much used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine in a pulverized, aged, and recompounded form called moxa. Since it also causes uterine contractions, it has been used to cause abortion. The Chinese word that often gets translated to acupuncture actually has two characters: one depicts a needle piercing the skin and the other represents the fluffy dried leaves of Mugwort or Moxa. ...
It plays a role in Asian traditional medicine as a method of correcting breech presentation. This method is termed moxibustion. However, a recent randomized controlled study (BJOG. 112(6):743-7, 2005 Jun) of 123 patients yielded inconclusive evidence. Moxibustion Moxibustion (Chinese: ç¸; pinyin: jiÅ) is an oriental medicine therapy utilizing moxa, or mugwort herb. ...
Much used in witchcraft, mugwort is useful in inducing lucid dreaming and astral travel. Smoking of mugwort prior to sleeping is said to increase the intensity of dreams, and to aid in the recall of dreams upon waking. Wikibooks has more about this subject: Lucid Dreaming Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of ones state while dreaming, enabling a more cogent (lucid) control over the content and quality of the experience. ...
For information about the music group see Astral Projection (group) Astral projection is an out of body experience (OBE) technique, sometimes associated with the occult and the New Age movement, where it is said that the astral body, or double, which some believe to be one of several co-incident...
Warnings Mugwort contains thujone, which is toxic. Pregnant women, in particular, should avoid consuming large amounts of mugwort. Thujone (C10H16O) is a chemical compound. ...
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Artemisia species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including: Bordered Pug (Eupithecia succenturiata) - recorded on Mugwort Common Emerald (Hemithea aestivaria) Common Pug (Eupithecia vulgata) The Gothic (Naenia typica) Grey Chi (Antitype chi) - recorded on Mugwort Grey Pug (Eupithecia subfuscata) Heart and Dart...
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