Search for: [Abstract = "of primary qualities \(hot\-cold, wet\-dry\), up to the systematic humoral pathology of Hippocrates in antiquity \- Artemisia vulgaris obtained further therapeutic indications such as cold\-induced abdominal pain. After the twilight of ancient world, the Middle Ages had also recognized the health benefits of mugwort and continued to use it for the treatment of women's complaints and gastric ailments. The discovery of printing had preserved the place of Artemisia vulgaris in the herbal books. The core of this dissertation is the analysis of German\-written leading \(and sometimes groundbreaking\) sources in the field of herbal medicine. Two epochs – Renaissance and Modern – are presented in a comparative analysis using appropriate Polish sources. During the period when holistic medicine was flourishing in Europe \- from the 15th to the 18th century, the basic indications for treatment with mugwort were, apart from female ailments, health problems due to cold and humidity, which mainly affected two functional circuits\: spleen and liver \(orbis lienalis\/orbis hepaticus\). These and other holistic concepts began to disappear during the Enlightenment, being consistently replaced by the materialistic vocabulary of emerging, evidence\-based medicine \(EBM\). Unfortunately, together with loss of the “dictionary of holistic medicine\", a very important aspect of the treatment with mugwort had also"]

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