Mugwort

In folk medicine, mugwort is used when there is a disordered menstrual cycle, in India verbena oil is used as an abortion agent, the roots are used to treat neurosis, neurasthenia, and also epilepsy. Used in cases of tuberculous meningitis, hepatitis, diabetes, diarrhoea. Mugwort is listed in the pharmacopoeias of some European countries as a treatment for gynecological diseases and epilepsy, and in the Chinese National Pharmacopoeia as a treatment for cholera, leprosy and stopping bleeding. In Russia, the drug is officially included in herbal mixtures used against cancer. If the leaves are rolled up, dried and rolled in the palms of the hands until all the solids have been removed, a gray wool is obtained, from which cigars are made for moxa therapy. Mox therapy is an Eastern method of medicine, when individual points on the body surface are heated to the point of burn, through which the body acquires great energy and the ability to organize all its systems.