mugwort anyone?

[hedgewitch79]

just interested to see if anyone had burnt or made tea from mugwort to help with their readings? i brought some about six months back to help with lucid dreaming but unfortunately it didnt work, but it did have a MASSIVE effect on my poor hubby! he couldnt understand why he had had a massively vivid dream that night that completely freaked him out! lol. needless to say, i didnt burn it again in the bedroom! im now going to have another shot at using this wonderful herb as ive read so many positive things about it enhancing psychic ability, but i will be burning it downstairs in the morning this time round!

[Lotus Padma]

Originally Posted by hedgewitch79

just interested to see if anyone had burnt or made tea from mugwort to help with their readings? i brought some about six months back to help with lucid dreaming but unfortunately it didnt work, but it did have a MASSIVE effect on my poor hubby! he couldnt understand why he had had a massively vivid dream that night that completely freaked him out! lol. needless to say, i didnt burn it again in the bedroom! im now going to have another shot at using this wonderful herb as ive read so many positive things about it enhancing psychic ability, but i will be burning it downstairs in the morning this time round!

No experience with it, hedgewitch - but now that I have read this, I am intrigued and MUST try it! I think Downwardspiral will be intrigued as well, because she really wanted to have some clear dreams... thanks for posting this! Very interesting!!

[DownwardSpiral]

Ahahaha!!!!! Poor hubby! I would love to have vivid dreams. I'm not interested in lucid dreaming. My question is where do you get mugwort?

Have you tried bay leaves?

[Stormdancer]

Originally Posted by DownwardSpiral

Ahahaha!!!!! Poor hubby! I would love to have vivid dreams. I'm not interested in lucid dreaming. My question is where do you get mugwort?

Have you tried bay leaves?

I get mine from health food stores that sell loose herbs.

[DownwardSpiral]

LOL Stormdancer why did I have a feeling someone was going to say health food store?

Do you know by chance if this is something they would sell at Whole Foods? I'm on vacation next week so maybe I can go on a mugwort hunt.

[hedgewitch79]

Originally Posted by DownwardSpiral

Ahahaha!!!!! Poor hubby! I would love to have vivid dreams. I'm not interested in lucid dreaming. My question is where do you get mugwort?

Have you tried bay leaves?

downward spiral, i got mine from a lady on ebay who sells very fresh and good quality herbs at good prices. i have used many of her wares and they are all extremely good. i will try and send you a link to her on ebay. failing that, there are others on ebay but you would have to read their feedback to make sure others were happy with the quality. i live in quite a small town and do have a health shop but they dont extend to thinks like fresh herbs. also you could harvest your own! very easy to find and would be most potent! althugh just not available in my country :/

see this website for a good read up http://www.nyctophilia.net/plants/mugwort.htm

but please do read the read the warnings as well, because as with other herbs too, you have to use it properly. if taken in very large doses (you would have to drink alot!) it can become toxic to the body (i would say one or two cups a week for a month and then give it a break for a few weeks) and NEVER take in pregnancy as it cam bring on premature labour. it can also help with menstration if you are not regular. they say that people of the past would sit on clumps of it to help with this.

to take it, you can use a couple of spoonsfull in a tea (mixed with chamomile and lemon verbena is yummy as it can have quite a bitter taste), you can smoke it (i dont smoke so i dont do this), or my fave way is to burn it on a disk on its own or maybe with a little white sage. oh, and you can just leave it under your bed with the intention of having lucid dreams. never underestimate how powerful just leaving it under bed can be!!! you will very surprised of its powers! i know we were! and not im not aloud to keep it in the bedroom because poor hubby gets such intense dreams he doesn't get a proper nights sleep! lol.

good luck when you do try it, and have fun! xx


oh and no, i haven't tried bay leaves before? do you grind them and then burn them?

[DownwardSpiral]

Originally Posted by hedgewitch79

downward spiral, i got mine from a lady on ebay who sells very fresh and good quality herbs at good prices. i have used many of her wares and they are all extremely good. i will try and send you a link to her on ebay. failing that, there are others on ebay but you would have to read their feedback to make sure others were happy with the quality. i live in quite a small town and do have a health shop but they dont extend to thinks like fresh herbs. also you could harvest your own! very easy to find and would be most potent! althugh just not available in my country :/

see this website for a good read up http://www.nyctophilia.net/plants/mugwort.htm

but please do read the read the warnings as well, because as with other herbs too, you have to use it properly. if taken in very large doses (you would have to drink alot!) it can become toxic to the body (i would say one or two cups a week for a month and then give it a break for a few weeks) and NEVER take in pregnancy as it cam bring on premature labour. it can also help with menstration if you are not regular. they say that people of the past would sit on clumps of it to help with this.

to take it, you can use a couple of spoonsfull in a tea (mixed with chamomile and lemon verbena is yummy as it can have quite a bitter taste), you can smoke it (i dont smoke so i dont do this), or my fave way is to burn it on a disk on its own or maybe with a little white sage. oh, and you can just leave it under your bed with the intention of having lucid dreams. never underestimate how powerful just leaving it under bed can be!!! you will very surprised of its powers! i know we were! and not im not aloud to keep it in the bedroom because poor hubby gets such intense dreams he doesn't get a proper nights sleep! lol.

good luck when you do try it, and have fun! xx


oh and no, i haven't tried bay leaves before? do you grind them and then burn them?

oh thank you so much for this! I haven't tried bay leaves (other than putting them whole in my pillow) but I've read they can be brewed or burned as well. I would love to have vivid dreams because my dreams are so blah....I guess you could say muted colors. Like watching a black and white TV.

[Stormdancer]

Originally Posted by DownwardSpiral

Do you know by chance if this is something they would sell at Whole Foods? I'm on vacation next week so maybe I can go on a mugwort hunt.

This was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure that's where I got it. You could call and ask if it's a long drive.

[Disa]

I'm glad to read all of these uses for mugwort. I was given 3 small bags of it last year by 3 different people and I had no idea what to do with it. They said to use it to cleanse my scrying mirror- but I thought I was supposed to be making a wash out of it- It makes more sense to burn it, I just for some reason didn't think to do that

[DownwardSpiral]

Originally Posted by Stormdancer

This was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure that's where I got it. You could call and ask if it's a long drive.

Ok thanks : ) There's 2 whole foods where I work so if I go get my mail (I have a PO box) I can stop and take a peak.