This product is the whole plant of Artemisia annua (Artemisia annua L.), an annual herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. Widely distributed throughout the country. Harvested in summer and autumn. Use fresh or dry in the shade, cut into sections and used as medicine.

The plant of the same genus, japanese wormwood herb (A. japonica Thunb.), is also used as Sweet Wormwood in some areas of China, and its functions are similar to Sweet Wormwood.

[Property]

bitter and acrid, cold. Act on liver, gallbladder and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

Clears away heat from deficiency, removes steaming bone fever, relieves summer heat, and prevents attack of malaria.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

1. Used to warm evil and damage to yin, night fever abating at dawn. This product clears heat with bitter cold, has a pungent fragrance, and is longer than clearing Yin subdued heat, so it can cure warm disease late stage [third stage], residual heat is not cleared, night fever abating at dawn, fever subsides without sweating, or Rebing, often used with turtle carapace, Anemarrhena, paeonol, etc., such as Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction.
2. For yin-deficiency fever, steaming bone fever. This product has the effect of reducing deficiency heat and removing steaming bone fever. It is often used with Starwort Root, Neopicrorhiza, Anemarrhena, turtle carapace is equivalent to Bone-Clearing Powder.
3. It is used to feel summer heat, fever, headache and thirst. This product is fragrant and dispersed, and is good at relieving summer heat, so it can cure the above-mentioned symptoms of summer heat syndrome. It is often used with Forsythia, Poria, Talc , Ricepaperplant Pith are the same.
4. for malaria Hanre. This product has the effect of preventing attack of malaria and relieving malaria Hanre. It can be taken alone with a larger dose of fresh product, mashed into juice, or with a combination of medicinals Cassia Central Bark, Astragalus Root, Talc , Indigo and other applications.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Gangmu: "Cure malaria Hanre."
2. Bencao Xinbian: "Relieve summer fever."
3. Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan: "Clear blood dampness stroke heat, cure jaundice and stagnant fire discomfort syndrome."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 3 to 10g, should not be fried for a long time; or use fresh in juice.

[Precaution]

Spleen-stomach weakness, intestinal efflux diarrhea and diarrhea should not be taken.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil, etc. Sweet Wormwood and Artemisia annua both contain the anti-malarial ingredient Sweet Wormwood. Both crude drugs and Sweet Wormwood can inhibit the development of Plasmodium and directly kill it. It has certain antihypertensive, antipyretic and inhibitory effects on skin fungi. The volatile oil has antitussive, dispelling phlegm and antiasthmatic effects, and the chloroform extract of Artemisia annua decocted with water has obvious choleretic effect on rats. Sweet Wormwood has a significant killing effect on adult Schistosoma worms in mice.