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Moxibustion in Michael Bernhard Valentini's Museum Museorum (Frankfurt am Main, 1714). Moxibustion (Chinese: 灸; pinyin: jiǔ) is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort on particular points on the body.
Mugwort is a common name for several species of aromatic flowering plants in the ... Western mugwort smoke was used to disinfect contaminated areas and revive ...
Artemisia argyi, commonly known as silvery wormwood [1] or Chinese mugwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant with a creeping rhizome. It is native to China , Korea , Mongolia , Japan , and the Russian Far East ( Amur Oblast , Primorye ).
Artemisia vulgaris, commonly known as mugwort, common mugwort, or wormwood, [note 1] is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is one of several species in the genus Artemisia commonly known as mugwort , although Artemisia vulgaris is the species most often called mugwort.
Wormwood's relative mugwort was traditionally used as a remedy for a variety of complaints, especially those of a gynaecological nature, and so the wormwood genus bears the name of the Greek goddess of childbirth, Artemis. [6] The specific name derives from apsínthion, the Greek term for the plant. [7]
Vaginal steaming, sometimes shortened to V-steaming [1] and also known as wormwood steaming, is an alternative health treatment wherein a woman squats or sits over steaming water containing herbs such as mugwort, rosemary, wormwood, and basil.
Mugwort, referred to as ssuk (쑥) in Korean, [7] is widely used in Korean cuisine as well as in traditional medicine (hanyak).In spring, which is the harvesting season, the young leaves of mugwort are used to prepare savory dishes such as jeon (Korean-style pancakes), ssuk kimchi, (쑥김치), ssukguk (쑥국, soup made with ssuk).
Artemisia annua, also known as sweet wormwood, [2] sweet annie, sweet sagewort, annual mugwort [3] or annual wormwood, is a common type of wormwood native to temperate Asia, but naturalized in many countries including scattered parts of North America.