This plant has a very powerful sweet fragrance people associate with the alpine. Like many other sageworts in the genus Artemesia, it would have been rubbed on the body as protection from negative energies or spirits and as a perfume after bathing as well as being applied fresh or dried to wounds and abscesses to prevent infection and reduce swelling and pain.
A tea of the dried plants would have been taken in small quantities for stomach upset or parasites.
The sageworts in general all have terpenes that are anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial and were used to reduce pain, prevent infection, kill parasites, and shrink tumors.
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