California Mugwort Loose Leaf Tea

Our elegantly labeled tea tin holds Artemisia douglasiana, California's own native Mugwort. Each tin contains 1 oz (29 g) of dried loose Mugwort leaf hand harvested from wild grown Mugwort from our own ranch in the mountains of the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara. Our mugwort grows wild and free of manipulation with no fertilizers, pesticides or irrigation. California Mugwort is a silvery green strongly aromatic woolly herb in the Sunflower family. It is similar to the European variety of Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). Mugwort is used in herbal medicine to regulate and bring on the menses, as an antiparasitic, to detoxify the liver, to cleanse the blood, to improve digestion, to improve circulation, and as a compress for muscle spasm a pain (especially useful for overexertion). Mugwort's woolly fibers are made into moxa that is burned near areas of pain to treat "stagnation". The Chumash Native Americans used a similar technique as well as a tea to treat muscle aches and pains, poison oak rash, abdominal and menstrual cramping and pain, diarrhea, fever, and headache. Mugwort contains dehydroleucodine, a sequiterpene lactone with biological activities including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-ulcer properties which heals stomach ulcers and GERD by controlling H. pylori, thickening the stomach lining and mucus membranes and regenerating tissue. It has been used as an aid for lucid dreaming, meditation, and working with the spirit world. Mugwort's phenomenal healing capabilities are referred to in an ancient incantation for protection.

“Have in mind, Mugwort, what you made known, What you laid down at the great denouncing. Una your name is, oldest of herbs, Of might against thirty, Of might against three, Of might against venom and the onflying, Of might against the vile, She who fares through the land.”