Artemisia annua

Artemisia annua

(Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the whole plant of Blumea balsamifera.

[plant morphology] Blumea balsamifera

Semi shrub, about 2 meters high. The whole plant is densely covered with white fluff or powdery, with aroma. The leaves are pinnate, 18-20 cm long and 6-8 cm wide, with powdery hairs on the top and fine hairs on the bottom. The leaf margin is serrated, the petiole is 4-5 cm long, and the petiole on the upper part of the stem is short or almost sessile. The inflorescence is small, arranged in panicle, large, terminal, salty axillary, pedicel hairy; the flower is yellow; the bract is elliptic; the marginal flower is tubular, female, and the disk flower is bisexual. Achene, white crested or yellowish.

It grows in low mountains, hills and forest margin. It is distributed in Yunnan.

[collection] all year round.

Bitter, cold.

Functions and indications: clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping malaria.

[prescription selection] ① for cold, fever, hypertension and enteritis: Artemisia ordosica 1-2 yuan. Take it in water.

② Treatment of malaria: one or two to one or two or five tablets of Artemisia ordosica. Take it in water.