What is Motherwort?
Body System Affinity
Physical and Spiritual Heart, Cardiovascular System, Nervous System, Uterus, Female Reproductive System, Lower Lumbar and Sacrum, Thyroid (indicated in Hyperthyroidism), Digestive Processes (due to bitter properties)
Herbal Actions
Nervine, Cardiac Tonic/Relaxant, Sedative, Emmenagogue, Acrid Bitter/Digestive, Relaxing Diaphoretic, Antispasmodic, Oxytocic (labor-inducing), Spiritual Heart Support, Dispels Blood Stasis
Energetics
Cooling, Drying, Bitter, Acrid
Motherwort is a beautiful, heart centered plant native across much of Europe and Asia. It tends to grow in places of disturbance, and is synchronistically indicated in nervous system and emotional body disturbances. Motherwort has been worked with in many medicine traditions such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (known as Yi Mu Cao), Homeopathy, and European traditions ranging from Slavic Folk Medicine to Greek/Hippocratic practices. Motherwort has a special place in Midwifery and Postpartum Care, as they are an incredibly effective and specific remedy for female physiology. This herb has long been relied upon to support painful and anxiety ridden menstrual cycles, induce labor and expel the afterbirth, ease perimenopausal symptoms, strengthen the physical + emotional heart, invigorate the blood and clear stasis, cool the liver, and quell anxiety that nestles in the heart and chest space.
Why we love this herb:
Motherwort’s latin name translates to “Lion Hearted,” which speaks volumes to their energetic and physical indications. They are associated with Venus in medical astrology, and have archetypal correlations with Leo. We call on Motherwort when there is a need to exercise courage and remember our heart’s capacity for bravery and strength in the face of grief and hardship. If you need support turning your caring and empathic abilities inward, this plant can be a profound guide. Motherwort, as intuited by their name, is supportive in addressing mother wounds and re-parenting work. This can look like addressing personal relationships to female figures, but also the more mythical and archetypal sense of mother wounding, relating to nourishment and connection to the Land.
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