Thread: Mugwort

Interesting... Please let us know if you have further success
What bothers me is I don't like hallucinogenic agents (Which is what I'm guessing the prophetic part is all about)
I want 'real' dreams

Well, I wouldn't call it hallucinogenic or prophetic, that's just kinda what a couple websites said. I just thought it was somewhat amusing I dreamt my co-worker fired someone!

But I guess, we'll see...

Went to sleep with it last night and can recall two dreams now! That is progress for me!

Well, for all of you who are interested, the mugwort seems to be helping a great deal with my dream recall. The colors and scenes from my past few nights asleep are extremely vivid. Also, my dreams have been more obscure... which is abnormal, because usually my dreams are very realistic and its hard for me to notice dreamsigns.

The other night I challanged and defeated a powerful sorceress on some cliffs by the sea. Last night I dreamt Yuna from FFX was trying to help me with tech support. That should have clued me in right there, but oh well...

Mugwort, valarian root, what stuff do they have in common? extract that, and you'd have killer dream recall pills

Couldnt help rejuvenating this old thread... and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is also mentioned on a couple of others (why do I bother, dream pillows, smarties, and nutmeg).
I tried using it for the first time last night. (head's too full and body too tired to WILD) I bought some from a herbalist, and funnily enough on the way home spotted some fresh stuff, which I picked. I put the fresh sprig under my pillow and my partner made a couple of pillows filled with the dry stuff. I normally keep a dream diary, but usually, unless I wake myself, I only remember 'BIG' dreams, the last ones of the night, or lucid ones. This morning I could recall, in detail, 5 long dreams, and they were all quite powerful, though only one was lucid. Could be the placebo effect, but recently we've been trying all sorts of things with less success (drinking water 'charged' in a glass engraved with the Tibetan dream symbol and three rose quartz pebbles at the bottom [mixing traditions - but what the hell?] also tried adding 'Dancing Light Orchid Essence' for luicid dreaming, posting 'you are dreaming' notices all over our house, making dream antenna with owl feathers, and more...!). Actually the other thing I tried was B6 in the form of yeast extract (dose = 3 pieces of toast with lots of Marmite(!)), and had two LDs that night (after a bit of a blank patch). Hmmmm

Glad you had good luck with the mugwort. I've been busy with other things so I haven't used the mugwort I have and haven't even been paying attention wth my dreams. But I'm going to take a sprig to bed with me tonight!

My mugworts just about to flower! I'm curious to see what it is like. The plant is taller then me now and looks oddly like marijuana!

Wait oh my gosh, I am so confused..

This is a plant? And you put it in a pillow?? What?

Yeah, mugwort . . . you know . . . that thing . . .

Never tryed it before. Any thing with the word WORT in it makes me a lil notious. lol

spicefiend - thanks and goodluck or rather, given the difference in timezones... how did it go?

This is a plant? And you put it in a pillow?? What?[/b]

Yes - mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris) is a plant which rows wild in many parts of the world, and by pillow I mean just little bag of dried plant. It definitely does something weird - stronger dreams for sure and better recall. Its a realative of Wormwood which used to be the key ingredient in absinthe. It was banned because it made you hallucinate and eventually go mad!!

The bit I picked has dried and lost most of its aroma, so now we've moved on to trying mugwort tea (not the best taste but better with chamomile), but a stronger effect still.

Never tryed it before. Any thing with the word WORT in it makes me a lil notious. lol [/b]

lol. WORT not wart! Wort is an old english word for weed or herb.

Where can you get that stuff?

Yeah, where can ya get it? So you just pick off parts of that plant and dry it, then? Hmm! Must try!

It was banned because it made you hallucinate and eventually go mad!! [/b]

Wait...this only happens from taking it internally..right? Sounds really cool as long as Im not losing my sanity. Ive been there before and Ive had enough insanity for one lifetime!

Well I gues I could try it, your starting to make me jelouse! Geese, and I thought I had great recall, but if it does that much to you! w00t!

Sorry - may have misled you all with my grammar - it was Wormwood (Artemesia absinthum) in absinthe (the alcoholic drink) which was made illegal prety much worldwide, not the common dream-weed Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris)!

An old English herbarium mentions: 'when someone wishes to begin a journey, have him take this herb artemisia [=mugwort] in his hand and have it with him, then he will not find the journey too great; and also it drives off demonic possession and in the house where he has it inside, it forbids evil leechdoms and also it averts the eye of evil men'.

Yeah, where can ya get it? So you just pick off parts of that plant and dry it, then? *Hmm! Must try![/b]

I think it grows in the US - its a very common weed in the UK. I'm sure any herbalist or even a hippy health food store could get it. I've only tried the dried herb for making tea - about 1 big pinch per cup. The fresh stuff smells very potent and you would probably get a different and stronger effect making tea with it.

Mugwort grows wild all over my area. I find that it is extremely effective in increasing the vividness (is that a word?) of my dreams. Smoking the dried leaves seems to work the best. But I found that even the smell of the crushed leaves (it's very strong) works. I don't know if this is just a placebo effect but I'd thought I'd contribute my two bits.

absinthe is the shit that made van gogh (sp?) chop his ear off, also prolly the reason his paintings are trippy, i wanna try it, but i dont think its illegal in most the world, i read an article about it and it said its still legal in a lotta places in europe and even listed websites that would ship you a bottle

[/color] Me & my friend purchased Mugwort at the Crow Haven Corner store in Salem Mass. they have a website for online orders.

We both used the herb in spells do see "certain things" in our dreams and it truly worked you just need to do dream recall[color=darkblue]

we mixed it with other things and sprinkeled it on our pillow at night and the herb works if you specify what it is you want in your spell.

Smoking the dried leaves seems to work the best.[/b]

hmm... even as a former pot smoker, that makes me a bit nervous. Like catnip, though I may be wrong, is suppossed to be toxic if you smoke it.

If it makes your dream recall that much better, I'm definatly going to have to get some mugwort XD. Hopefully I'll be able to find one of those plants growing in my area....Man I hope so..

Look what you have started spicefiend!
A whole new generation of mugwort smokers

I do not think smoking anything can help your dream recall?!?!

LOL! Smoke?! Don't think so cause it would kill me. (Literally because I have asthma) I think I'll stick to a dream pillow and maybe tea

I'd be very, very interested in a recipe for mugwort tea...

Hehehe, mugwort smokers.... I think I'll just stick to the pillows too.

What about St. John's Wort?