Climate.gov: How is future climate change likely to affect human evolution? Potts: It is our survival challenge for the future. I think itâs going to present some of the same kinds of challenges our ancestors faced: vastly changed landscapes, and ways of life that may no longer be able to thrive or even exist.
Mugwort has many medicinal properties such as stimulant, antibacterial, purgative, anthelmintic, nervine, antiinflammatory, hemostatic, antiseptic, expectorant, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, carminative, digestive, diaphoretic, and cholagogue properties. Because of these properties, it is also used to thin blood.
For centuries, motherwort has been used as a medicinal plant to treat heart diseases. The herb has diuretic properties and may inhibit artery calcification formation. It is also used as a remedy for milder forms of Gravesâ disease (an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid) and for hypertension.