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Sweet Wormwood Herb

Name

Sweet Wormwood Herb

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Artemisiae Annuae Herba

Chinese Name

青蒿

Category

Whole herbs

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Production Regions

Produced in all the Chinese provinces.

Macroscopic Features

Stem is cylindrical, upper portion often has branches, 30~80cm long, 0.2~0.6cm diameter, externally yellowish-green or brownish-yellow, with longitudinal ridges, slightly hard texture, easily broken, fractured surface center has pith. Alternating leaves, dark green or brownish-green, curled, crushed; intact leaves are triple pinnate with deep cracks after being flattened, lobes and small lobes are square round or long elliptical, both sides covered short hairs. Distinctively aromatic odor, slightly bitter taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has green color, numerous leaves, potent aroma.

Properties

Bitter, acrid, cold

Functions

Clears deficiency heat, cools blood, eliminates steaming, interrupts malaria. Apply to fever due to summerheat evil, fever due to yin deficiency, night fever and bring down in the morning, bone steaming and consumptive fever, malaria with cold and heat, damp-heat jaundice.

Origin

The dried aerial portion of Artemisia annua L.(Asteraceae)

Sweet Wormwood HerbHerbs in the formula

Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction

Action：Clears gallbladder, drains dampness, harmonizes the stomach, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Pattern of shaoyang damp-heat marked by alternating chills and fever similar to malaria, more fever than chills, a bitter taste in the mouth, diaphragm oppression, sour and bitter regurgitation, spitting yellow sticky drool, belching, hiccups, distending pain in the chest and rib-side, yellow scanty urine, a red tongue body, a white greasy or white yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, slippery right pulse and a rapid, wiry pulse.

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Bone-Clearing Powder

Action：Clears deficiency-heat and relieves steaming bone fever.

Indication：This formula is indicated for deficiency of the liver and kidney yin, and deficiency-heat harassing the interior. The symptoms are steaming bone fever, prolonged low-grade fever, emaciation, red lips and cheeks, fatigue and night sweat, thirst and vexation, a red tongue with a scanty coating, and a thready, rapid pulse.

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Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction

Action：Nourishes yin and vents heat.

Indication：This formula is indicated for patterns where yin has been damaged along with latent pathogens. The symptoms are night fever that abates at dawn, fever that abates without sweating, a red tongue body with a scanty coating, and a thready, rapid pulse.

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