Motherwort

Motherwort, also known as Leonorus cardiaca, which is latin for ‘Lion Heart’. The affinity and energetics of this plant are a true women’s and mother’s ally for bringing courage and strength to a faltering heart, bringing comfort to your nervous system. For those who feel emotionally isolated and unsupported, needing a ‘hug’.

Motherwort is a gentle nervine for sympathetic excess marked by anxiety felt by tension or pressure around the heart and chest and those experiencing palpitations.

This plant is a tried and true emmenagogue, able to swiftly and reliably bring on a delayed bleed and having your cycle return after breastfeeding or birth control. Due to its strongly bitter and relaxant qualities, motherwort is also used for PMS symptoms and uterine cramping. In essence, motherwort quickens the blood, transforms stasis, and stops pain.

Motherwort is a wonderful support for menopausal symptoms including palpitations, irritability, hot flashes, headaches, nervousness caused by a stagnant liver struggling to metabolize androgen hormones. Motherwort clears metabolic waste in the liver and calms the nervous system.

Specific Uses:

• palpitations + high pulse

• amenorrhea + delayed menses

• dysmenorrhea + PMS

• hormonal headache

• start/stop labour

• postpartum after-pains + anxiety

• menopause symptoms

• hyperthyroidism

• poor digestion, stagnant liver

Pregnancy: No

Postpartum: Yes

Children: No

Motherwort is one of the most bitter herbs out there and nearly intolerable to drink as a tea, hence the tincture! You have been warned.

If you are trying to bring back your bleed after stopping birth control or breastfeeding, start by taking 3 drops twice a day until bleed returns.