Search for: [Abstract = "The era of current scientific development has overshadowed more than 2000\-year\-old knowledge about medicinal plants collected \(and documented\) according to the principles of holistic medicine. However, the current state of medical knowledge in the Western world, which has been collected and documented for 150 years according to the principles of Evidence Based Medicine \(EBM\), indicates that we can find information in holistic sources that are up\-to\-date and useful. This dissertation describes\/presents the significance of a medicinal plant from the family Asteracae – Artemisia vulgaris L. \(common Mugwort\) in the history of pharmacy and in the current therapy In this dissertation, both medical indications for medicinal raw materials as well as various forms of application of medicaments from this species have been presented in chronological order of their documentation throughout history \(from antiquity to modern times\). Due to its prevalence on the European continent, the plant was widely available and its healing effect in gynecological and perinatal ailments had been already described in the first medical books of our civilization. Together with development of the ancient medical art and the philosophy of healing \- over the harmony of opposites \(“eucrasy\"\) and the theory of four elements \(water, soil, air, fire\), through the science of body fluids \(“humores\"\) and the scheme"]

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