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Amazing Artemesias
Artemis - Goddess of the herbalist - gives her name to a genus of marvelously aromatic, safely psychedelic, highly medicinal, dazzlingly decorative, and more-or-less edible plants in the Asteraceae family I love Artemis, and I love her plants
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 Leader of the sacred bitches Great she-bear Diana Selene Ever Virgin; owned by no man We will visit her sacred wood on a shamanic journey Who knows what will happen then
HOW DO ARTEMISIAS GROW IN YOUR GARDEN?
Most Artemisias are perennials and grow best from cuttings, not seeds Sweet Annie is the exception, being a self-seeding annual Although you can 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 each year on last year's new wood; I prune only dead wood from them Cronewort is an invasive perennial that creeps underground; it dies back to the ground each year and can be heavily harvested (clear cuts are ok) without damage to its further prolific productivity
Most Artemisias require little care Lack of soil nutrients and lack of water do not faze them Many are native to deserts, and know how to thrive in hot dry weather Except for tarragon, all can overwinter without fuss
Flowers are usually small and green, in other words, nearly invisible
WHAT DO ARTEMISIAS CONTAIN?
- bitter principals: wormwood
- coumarins: cronewort, tarragon
- essential oils (complex, variety specific, with hundreds of components per plant): cronewort (high in camphor, thujone), tarragon, wormwood (high 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-green foliage bring beauty to the garden throughout the growing season They also make long-lasting, aromatic and beautiful indoor decorations: bouquets, wreaths, swags They are popular strewing herbs, too
Those which are high in essential oils are thereby antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial They also improve digestion and appetite if taken in small doses
Any Artemisia growing beside the door - or painted on it - was, in days of old, the sign of the midwife, the herbalist Magical and folkloric uses are numerous
"Mugwort possesses both natural and supernatural qualities [It] excels as a woman's herb, easing the pain of labor, menstrual cramps, and effectively treating various uterine complaints"
Gai Stern (1986)
Cronewort/mugwort = smudge, dream pillow, moxa, birthing steam, vinegar of roots and young leaves, salad green when young, mugwort noodles, mugwort mochi American colonists used the sundried leaves as a tea substitute Formerly a popular beer flavoring (hence 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 depression, eases irritability and burdened joints, brings peace and sleep, and reassures the nerves
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"That torturous, barbaric practice, the use of the moxa, is closely related to this plant"
Millspaugh (1892)
Wormwood = tincture, oil Ingredient in absinth Stimulates mid-brain activity and increases creativity, but repeated use disturbs the central nervous system Prevents giardia, dysentery, amoebas Cholagogic, digestive, appetite-stimulant, liver-stimulant, wound healer Caution: Use can lower seizure threshold; interacts adversely with seizure-reducing medications
Sweet Annie = capsules, in fairly large daily dose, to prevent malaria; source of antimalarial drugs A strong tea, taken frequently, kills giardia and amoebas
Tarragon = vinegar, seasoning Appetite stimulant according to Herbal PDR
Southernwood = dream pillow, sachet, charms To see the beloved
SPECIES
Some 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 (old woman, dusty miller)
- A tridentata (sagebrush; three-toothed sagebrush)
- A vulgaris (cronewort, mugwort)
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