HOMEOPATHIC CLINICAL: Tincture of fresh root for catalepsy, chorea, convulsions, dysmenia, epilepsy,
hydrocephalus, hysteria, somnambulism, worms.
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: Mugwort is common to Russian people as Polin obiknovennaya or chernobilnik,
which grows in all parts of Russia and was an accepted home medicine before being thought of as
material for books. Folk medicine: Uses the leaves, roots, and whole plant in female sickness of many
varieties—amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, cramps, labor pains; generally as calming, nervine for
convulsions, epilepsy, neurasthenia, and other nervous disorders (Atlas, Moscow, 1962); for colds,
stones (kidney, bladder, gallbladder) (Medicina, Moscow, 1965); roots and herb as decoction for
tubercular lungs, epilepsy (Moscow University, 1963); decoction of the whole plant for gastric
conditions, nervousness, fright, epilepsy, convulsions, female weakness; decoction of the plant in painful
and feverish labor after delivery; in female sickness as diuretic and abortive (Bello-Russ. Academy of
Science, 1965). Externally: Decoction of nastoika (with vodka) for inflammations of mucous
membranes, wounds, and ulcers (Saratov University, 1962). Decoction of whole plant to bathe children
with rickets.