Two herbs long held sacred in the traditions of women, witches, and wise folk.

Use it to create a layer of discernment and protection around yourself, as support during your bleeding time or other ceremonial or liminal moments, to relax the muscles and soothe the nerves, and as an invocation to reclaim the old stories and medicine ways.

Ingredients: mugwort leaves & flowers (Artemesia douglasiana) and yarrow leaves & flowers (Achillea millefolium), a small amount of potentizing, preservative cane alcohol, and olive oil- all organic.

The name of this medicine was inspired by a passage from a medieval text that was uncovered by women's historian Max Dashú and written about in her phenomenal book Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion:

Swa wiccan tæca∂

"as the witches teach"

This was the contextualization provided by an Anglo-Saxon translator to a Frankish priestly denunciation of people who “bring their offerings to earth­fast stone and trees and wellsprings." By adding the explanatory phrase "as the witches teach,” he demonstrated that in his time "witch" encompassed animist ceremony at natural sanctuaries, not harmdoers.

In other words, though the male Christian conquerers at the time tried to impose their patriarchal and monotheistic view of the world on to old Europe, their own texts and writings frequently allude to the fact that the people still seek the help of women, witches, and wise folk, whose teachings show a relationship with and reverence for the living earth.

Mugwort and yarrow have a long tradition of use in Europe and everywhere else they grow, and working with (and smelling!) these plants invokes in my mind the many many ancestral wise folk throughout the millennia who have done as we still do today- turn to the earth and her medicine plants for ceremony, healing, and enchantment.

Organically grown by us

4oz