mugwort

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of species Artemisia vulgaris of plants native to temperate Eurasia and north Africa, 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 the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.”

   “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 that day.”

   ““I have eaten mugwort,” he told his familiar. “Soon I shall see down the well of time; our past lies there.””

   “Take then mugwort and everlasting and boil these three in several kinds of milk until they become red.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Eurasia, Africa, and North America.