“‘In the Court of the Inquisition, a motherwort was a person who assisted in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.’”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession] Reference

It suited Miss Trent, however, and she always found motherwort tea soothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistaken Wife] Reference

Take the leaves of motherwort and thoroughwort, and the bark of poplar root; equal parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

But my personal favorite is ‘motherwort, an herb of the mint family, prickly, a bitter taste …’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession] Reference

Oh, no, thought Miss Trent, and only just managed, by a quick turn of the wrist, to avert a motherwort deluge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistaken Wife] Reference

Next, one would use blood-moving herbs such as motherwort Leonurus cardiaca, angelica, hyssop, hawthorn berries, and rose hips.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

I'm going to be in the same boat as you soon but we can't afford it, so I'll be using motherwort a herbal narcotic excellent for mothers! and blessed thistle, a herbal antidepressant type thing that's excellent for lactation as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snap] Reference

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Kim mentioned that she especially liked the motherwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

She could tell with unerring certainty when motherwort would kill, and boneset would cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Sketches] Reference

Not less closely did such old garden weeds as motherwort, groundsel, chickweed, and wild mustard cling to the white man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

She couldn't determine the source of Kim's pain, but she taught Kim and Steve some relaxation techniques and recommended some herbal remedies -- catnip tea, lobelia, and motherwort -- to ease it and bring her blood pressure down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

In the months she’d been at Dinas Emrys in Garwen’s company, Isolde had accepted gifts of pearl-white stones, sprigs of motherwort and cowslip, and water blessed by wandering saints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference

How could you not order one packet each of saltwort, sneezewort, motherwort, and Saint-John’s-wort, plus a sample of mad-dog skullcap, which the text said was once a folk remedy for rabies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

I’m going to be in the same boat as you soon but we can’t afford it, so I’ll be using motherwort (a herbal narcotic excellent for mothers!) and blessed thistle, a herbal antidepressant type thing that’s excellent for lactation as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snap | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Herbal motherwort heart conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [personal « WordPress.com Tag Feed] Reference

Examine ripening fruits of blue curls, pennyroyal, germander, balm, horehound, dittany, hyssop, basil, marjoram, thyme, savory, catmint, skullcap, self-heal, dragon's head, motherwort, and various dry fruits of several chickweeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seed Dispersal] Reference

Elder, rue, and saffron were English herbs that were made settlers here and carefully cultivated; so also were sage, hyssop, tansy, wormwood, celandine, comfrey, mallows, mayweed, yarrow, chamomile, dandelion, shepherd's-purse, bloody dock, elecampane, motherwort, burdock, plantain, catnip, mint, fennel, and dill -- all now flaunting weeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference