Note 17 — Chapter XI · Tree-, Herb-, and Stone-lore

Mugwort, as already stated, was a medicine, and chiefly a woman’s medicine. “The plant (mugwort)”, says Dr. Rendel Harris, “is Artemis, and Artemis is the plant. Artemis is a woman’s goddess and a maid’s goddess, because she was a woman’s medicine and a maid’s medicine.”17 The mugwort promoted child-birth, and controlled women like the moon, and was used for women’s ailments in general. It was a healing plant, and was “good for gout” among other troubles.