mugworts

Noun

mugwort (countable and uncountable, plural mugworts)

1. Any member of the species Artemisia vulgaris of plants native to temperate Eurasia and north Africa, traditionally used medicinally.
   • Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 197
2. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Eurasia, Africa, and North America.