\[ **BT: [[plants]]** ] --- # herbs and herbalism ## mugwort [[Mugwort is a common name for several species of aromatic flowering plants in the genus Artemisia.]][^1] In Europe, mugwort most often refers to the species *Artemisia vulgaris*, or common mugwort.[^2] [[Mugwort is also known as Cronewort.]][^3] In East Asia the species *Artemisia argyi* is often called ‘Chinese mugwort’ in the context of [[Chinese medicine|traditional Chinese medicine]], Ngai Chou in Cantonese or àicǎo (艾草) for the whole plant in Mandarin, and àiyè (艾叶) for the leaf, which is used specifically in the practice of moxibustion. *Artemisia princeps* is a mugwort known in Korea as *ssuk* (쑥) and in Japan as *yomogi* (ヨモギ).[^4] While other species are sometimes referred to by more specific common names, they may be called simply ‘mugwort’ in many contexts.[^5] [[Mugwort is said to have been used in Germanic solstice rites.]][^6] --- ## ↬ external resources - [How To Make Nutritive Herbal Vinegars](http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2016/07/how-to-make-nutritive-herbal-vinegars/) - [How to Tincture the Folk Way](https://thekosmickitchen.com/blog/how-to-folk-tincutre) - [So You Wanna be a \#PlantWitch: Guidelines for Budding Herbalists using Social Media](https://mythicmedicine.love/blog-full-archive/so-you-wanna-be-a-plantwitch) [^1]: ‘Mugwort’, Wikipedia, last edited 12 December 2025, 05:02 (UTC), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort>. [^2]: ‘Mugwort’, Wikipedia, last edited 12 December 2025, 05:02 (UTC), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort>. [^3]: Judith Berger, *Herbal Rituals*, quoted in: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill, ‘Story is Medicine’, 2018|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]], *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, no. 2 (2018), p. 100, <https://issuu.com/planthealer/docs/phm-30>. [^4]: ‘Mugwort’, Wikipedia, last edited 12 December 2025, 05:02 (UTC), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort>. [^5]: ‘Mugwort’, Wikipedia, last edited 12 December 2025, 05:02 (UTC), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort>. [^6]: Max Dashu, *[[Dashu, Witches and Pagans, 2016|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700–1100]]* (Veleda Press, 2016), pp. 78–79.