mugwort
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5ADJ.
difficult, good, kind, large, over
VERB + MUGWORT
drink, eaten, find, patch, stalks, storms
MUGWORT + NOUN
doorways, tea, witches
PREP.
along, from, with
ADV.
really
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noun
The plant Artemisia vulgaris, family Asteraceae, 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.
Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Eurasia, Africa, and North America.
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6Mugwort 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 a
WiktionaryPeony 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.
Wiktionary“I have eaten mugwort,” he told his familiar. “Soon I shall see down the well of time; our past lies there.”
WiktionaryThere is a large patch of mugwort along the back side of the parking lot.
Tatoeba · #8900871One of my friends told me that if you drink mugwort tea before going to bed, it makes you have interesting dreams.
Tatoeba · #8900873I find mugwort really difficult to control because of its tendency to resprout vigorously from rhizomes.
Tatoeba · #8900874