The Herbal Actions of Mugwort
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Mugwort is a plant famed for its effects on dreaming, but its medicinal properties and actions do so much more than that. With a distinct effect on the nervous, digestive, hepatobiliary, and reproductive systems, Mugwort navigates, regulates, and balances the highways that connect them all. In today's video, you'll discover:
- Mugwort's role in digestion
- How its bitter, choleretic, and cholagogue properties support liver health and relieve stagnation. -Its unique dual action on the nervous system
- Why Mugwort can both stimulate sluggish nerves and calm overactive ones
- Mugwort & dreaming – How this plant enhances vivid and lucid dreams (and why it may not work for everyone's sleep).
- Hormonal balance & menstrual support
- How it stimulates circulation, eases PMS, and helps regulate reproductive hormones.
- The liver connection
- Why a sluggish liver contributes to hormonal imbalances and how Mugwort helps clear stagnation.
- How to prepare & use Mugwort
- Different ways to integrate this potent herb into your practice.
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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.
His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is only achieved through understanding and working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves.
He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the school of evolutionary herbalism. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey, what's up everybody? Sagea here and standing in our mugwort patch and it is in full flower. |
| 0:32.1 | The bees are loving it. Thought we'd come down and share a little bit about the medicinal |
| 0:36.1 | properties of this herb. |
| 0:38.0 | So mugwort, you know, I love this plant. |
| 0:40.6 | This is one of the plants, kind of one of those first plants that I really started getting |
| 0:45.8 | interested in when I first started becoming an herbalist back, oh, I don't know, geez, |
| 0:51.5 | probably, I don't even know how many years, probably close to 20 years ago, I guess, |
| 0:55.9 | looking at this remedy and learning about its properties, it always just kind of has, there's always those |
| 1:02.1 | plants, you know, that those first plants you get to know, they always kind of, I have fond memories with them, |
| 1:07.9 | you know? So it's just been glorious having the mugwort in the garden, |
| 1:12.1 | and so I'm really excited to share about it. So its Latin name is Artemisia Vulgaris, |
| 1:17.5 | which, of course, Artemisia is, you know, based on the Greek goddess Artemis, the goddess of |
| 1:25.6 | the moon and the hunt, And moving into the core action. |
| 1:30.5 | So certainly, as I mentioned, as a bitter-tasting herb, it has the bitter-tonic action. |
| 1:35.8 | As an aromatic fragrant plant, it has some carminative properties. |
| 1:40.5 | As a bitter tonic, it will also lend itself, I would say, a relatively mild colagog |
| 1:48.2 | coleretic property, meaning it's going to increase the production of bile in the liver. |
| 1:53.7 | That's choleretic. |
| 1:55.0 | And it will increase bile secretions by the gallbladder, which is colagog. |
| 2:01.9 | And then we have the nervine property. |
| 2:05.2 | So mugwort's cool, because on the one hand, it is a nervine stimulant, like I said. |
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