Sentence:  <WSD>Mugwort</WSD> is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  "Artemisia vulgaris", traditionally used medicinally.