Armoise Essential Oil
Armoise Artemisia vulgaris also known as mugwort, a perennial herb, originally native to N. Africa, temperate Asia, and Europe, widely naturalized in most parts of the world. It is a tall-growing plant, the stems, which are angular and often of a purplish hue, frequently rising 3 feet or more in height. The Mugwort or artemesia is said to have derived its name from having been used to flavour drinks. It was, in common with other herbs, such as Ground Ivy, used to a great extent for flavouring beer before the introduction of hops.
The essential oil is steam distilled from the dried leaves and flowering tops in the South of France, Morocco, Germany, Hungary, India, China and Japan. Armoise Oil is a pale yellow or almost colourless liquid. The odour is powerful, fresh camphoraceous, somewhat green and bitter sweet, with a cedarleaf like topnote and a sage rosemary like bodynote. The properties ascribed to armoise are bitter tonic, stimulant, nervine tonic, emmenagogue, laxative, diaphoretic.
Do not take large doses. Should not be used by pregnant women since it can cause a miscarriage.
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