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The health benefits of Mugwort Essential Oil can be attributed to its properties like anti epileptic and anti hysteric, cordial, digestive, diuretic, emenagogue, nervine, stimulant, uterine, vermifuge,
Mugwort has been both famous and infamous. While in China, its medicinal properties were used to treat various ailments, in European countries like England and others, it was used in witchcraft and black magic. The Mugwort Essential Oil is extracted by steam distillation of leaves, buds and flowering tops of the Mugwort tree, whose scientific name is Artemisia Vulgaris. The various components of the essential oil obtained from this plant are alpha thujone, beta thujone, cineole, camphene and camphone.
The various medicinal properties of this oil can be summarized as under.
- Anti Epileptic & Anti Hysteric: The soothing and the relaxing effects of this oil on the brain and the nervous system makes it calm down the epileptic and hysteric attacks and in the long run, even cure epilepsy and hysteria to a great extent.
- Cordial: This oil has a warming effect on the body which can be used to counter effect of cold and moisture in the air. It also helps fight infections.
- Digestive: The Essential Oil of Mugwort is very efficient in curing digestive disorders resulting from abnormal flow of digestive juices or due to microbial infections. It regulates or stimulates the flow of digestive juices to facilitate digestion as well as inhibits microbial infection in the stomach and the intestines to cure digestive disorders.
- Diuretic: This property may be of great help for those who are suffering from chronic renal failure and accumulation of water in the body or those who are suffering from renal calculi, overweight, hypertension and symptoms associated with accumulation of toxins in the body, such as rheumatism, arthritis and gout. Being a diuretic, Mugwort Essential Oil increases urination, both by frequency and by quantity which helps remove excess water, salts, fat (urine contains fats up to 4% of the total urine) and toxins like uric acid. This gives effective protection from the symptoms discussed above and makes the body feel lighter. This also facilitates digestion and increases appetites.
- Emenagogue: The blocked menstruations can be restarted with the help of this essential oil and can be made regular. Further, the other problems associated with periods, such as fatigue, headache, abdominal pains, nausea etc. can also be tackled with the help of this oil. This essential oil can also help avoid early or untimely menopause.
- Nervine: This oil acts as a tonic for the nerves. It is effective in treating nervous afflictions and disorders and in strengthening nerves. This, being a relaxant and a stimulant at the same time, sedates the nerves afflictions and relaxes them in cases of shock, hyper-reactivity etc. as well as stimulates them to make us more active and alert.
- Stimulant: The effect of a stimulant is can be seen on all the organs and the systems functioning in the body. The Mugwort Essential Oil stimulates almost all the functions in the body such as circulation, secretion of hormones and enzymes from endocrinal glands, discharge of bile and other gastric juices into the stomach, stimulates nervous response, neurons in the brain, the palpitations, respiration, peristaltic motion of the intestines and also stimulates menstrual discharges and production and secretion of milk in the breasts, due to its stimulating effects of certain hormones.
- Uterine: This oil maintains good health of the uterus. It maintains proper uterine discharges and stimulates production of certain hormones which keep the uterus functioning properly and safe from effects of ageing. It also protects it from uterine ulcers and tumours.
- Vermifuge: The Essential Oil of Mugwort kills intestinal worms due to its toxic nature. It should be administered in very-very mild doses to children. It is effective on both round worms and tape worms. Worms hinder the normal growth and absorption of nutrients in the body and make the body weak. Mugwort Oil can re-establish normal growth and strength in the body by eliminating these worms.
- Other Benefits: It is used to treat amenorrhea and dysmenorrhoea. It is also used to improve concentration and memory, mixed with essential oils of rosemary and sage.
Few Words of Caution: This oil is toxic, irritant, neuro-toxic and abortifacient. That means, in common words, it is poisonous, causes irritations, have toxic and narcotic effects on the brain and the nervous system and can cause abortions. It should never be used during pregnancy.
Blending: The Mugwort Essential Oil forms fine blends with the essential oils of cedar wood, clary sage, Lavandin, oak moss, patchouli, pine, rosemary and sage.
This article was contributed by Aparup Mukherjee
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