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Source of validity: Traditional
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Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) has a long history of use in traditional medicine systems across Europe and Asia, valued for its purported digestive, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Its use for cholera is primarily documented in ethnobotanical and historical texts. For example, in some traditional Chinese and Korean herbal medicine records, mugwort was included in multi-herb formulas for gastrointestinal complaints, including diarrhea and dysentery, which could overlap with cholera symptoms. Similarly, in 19th-century European folk medicine, mugwort was sometimes employed as an adjunct to treatments for “cholera morbus,” a term then used for various severe diarrheal illnesses. However, the rationale was based on general observations of mugwort’s bitter, aromatic qualities thought to “strengthen the stomach” and “expel toxins” rather than targeted antimicrobial activity against Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. There is no robust clinical or pharmacological evidence that mugwort directly treats cholera or that it significantly reduces the severity or duration of cholera-related diarrhea. Modern scientific studies on mugwort tend to focus on its effects for other conditions, such as menstrual disorders or as an anti-parasitic, not cholera. Thus, mugwort's use for cholera is justified by tradition, with very weak supporting evidence and no modern clinical validation.

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