Mugwort

Artemisia vulgaris

HRB-0202Entry “MUGWORT” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

Substance of concernEFSA: 1,8-cineole, Camphor, alpha-thujone and 1 moreEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 4, under 4 headings

  1. CrampCLM-0006351850 index
    A decoction thereof made with Camomile and Agrimony, and the place bathed therewith while it is warm, takes away the pains of the sinews, and the cramp.
    QUO-000513Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. InflammationsCLM-000936
    As also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.
    QUO-000712Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StoneCLM-001726
    It breaks the stone, and opens the urinary passages where they are stopped.
    QUO-001115Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Women’s DiseasesCLM-0024651850 index, pp. 122, 231
    This is an herb of Venus, therefore maintains the parts of the body she rules, remedies the diseases of the parts that are under her signs, Taurus and Libra.
    QUO-001459Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.