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Wonderful Artemisias

 

WHO IS ARTEMIS?

 

Amazonian moon goddess. Goddess of the hunt. Goddess of the wild things. Goddess of the midwife. Goddess of the herbalist. Mother of all Creatures. Chief of the sacred bitches. Great she-bear. Diana. Selene. Ever Virgin; owned by no man. We'll visit her sacred wooden on a shamanic journey. Who is aware of what's going to happen then.

 

HOW DO ARTEMISIAS GROW IN YOUR GARDEN?

 

Most Artemisias are perennials and develop greatest from cuttings, not seeds. Sweet Annie is the exception, being a self-seeding annual. Although you should buy tarragon seeds, you can't grow   true tarragon from them. Wormwood and southernwood and tarragon (the last not winter-hardy in many places) are woody perennials which regreen annually on last yr's new wood; I prune only useless wooden from them. Cronewort is an invasive perennial that creeps underground; it dies back to the ground every year and may be closely harvested (clear cuts are okay) with out damage to its additional prolific productivity.

 

Most Artemisias require little care. Lack of soil vitamins and lack of water don't faze them. Many are native to deserts, and know the best way to thrive in sizzling dry weather. Apart from tarragon, all can overwinter without fuss.

 

Flowers are often small and green, in other phrases, almost invisible.

 

WHAT DO ARTEMISIAS CONTAIN?

 

• bitter principals: wormwood
• coumarins: cronewort, tarragon
• important oils (complicated, selection particular, with hundreds of components per plant): cronewort (excessive in camphor, thujone), tarragon, wormwood (excessive in camphor, thujone)
• flavonoids: cronewort, tarragon
• glycosides: cronewort, tarragon
• hormones: cronewort (sitosterol, stigmasterol)
• sesquiterpene lactones: cronewort

 

HOW ARE ARTEMISIAS USED?

Artemisias, with their grey-green or white-inexperienced foliage carry magnificence to the backyard throughout the growing season. In addition they make long-lasting, fragrant and exquisite indoor {decorations}: bouquets, wreaths, swags. They're fashionable strewing herbs, too.

 

These that are high in important oils are thereby antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial. In addition they enhance digestion and appetite if taken in small doses.

 

Any Artemisia rising beside the door - or painted on it - was, in days of previous, the signal of the midwife, the herbalist. Magical and folkloric makes use of are numerous.

 

"Mugwort possesses both natural and supernatural qualities. [It] excels as a woman's herb, easing the ache of labor, menstrual cramps, and effectively treating numerous uterine complaints."                                                         Gai Stern (1986)

 

Cronewort/mugwort = smudge, dream pillow, moxa, birthing steam, vinegar of roots and young leaves, salad inexperienced when young, mugwort noodles, mugwort mochi. American colonists used the sundried leaves as a tea substitute. Formerly a preferred beer flavoring (therefore the name mugwort). Controls worms in goats. Urinary tonic. Uterine tonic. Digestive tonic. Nerve tonic.  Circulatory tonic. Cronewort eases pain and fever, comforts grief and melancholy, eases irritability and burdened joints, brings peace and sleep, and reassures the nerves.

 

Moxa demonstration and discussion.

 

"That torturous, barbaric apply, using the moxa, is closely associated to this plant." Millspaugh (1892)

 

Wormwood = tincture, oil. Ingredient in absinth. Stimulates mid-mind exercise and increases creativity, but repeated use disturbs the central nervous system. Prevents giardia, dysentery, amoebas. Cholagogic, digestive, appetite-stimulant, liver-stimulant, wound healer. Warning: Use can decrease seizure threshold; interacts adversely with seizure-decreasing medications.

 

Sweet Annie = capsules, in pretty massive day by day dose, to stop malaria; supply of antimalarial drugs. A strong tea, taken often, kills giardia and amoebas.

 

Tarragon = vinegar, seasoning. Appetite stimulant in line with Herbal PDR.

 

Southernwood = dream pillow, sachet, charms. To see the beloved.

 

SPECIES

 

A number of the many Artemisia species that herbalists and gardeners use:

 

A. abrotanum (southernwood)

A. absinthium (wormwood)

A. afra (African wormwood)

A. annua (sweet Annie, qing hao)

A. camphorata (camphor-scented sothernwood)

A. drancuncula (tarragon, estragon, little dragon)

A. frigida (fringed sagebrush)

A. lactiflora (ghost plant)

A. ludoviciana (silver queen)

A. pontica (Roman wormwood)

A. schmidtiana (silver mound)

A. stellerana (outdated woman, dusty miller)

A. tridentata (sagebrush; three-toothed sagebrush)

A. vulgaris (cronewort, mugwort)

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