Artemisia selengensis

Artemisia selengensis

(selected Chinese herbal medicines from Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai)

[synonym] Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

[source] it is the fruit of the smoked cattle of the family vaccinidae.

[plant morphology] smoked beef

Annual herb, 30-150 cm high, with brown glandular hairs and white pubescence. Roots erect, slender terete, reddish brown. Leaves alternate, 7-26 cm long, 4-16 cm wide, oblong oblanceolate, tapering to base, 3-pinnate; lobules lanceolate, pointed, about 1 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, sparsely puberulent on both sides; petioles 10 cm long, glandular and pubescent. Panicle terminal, 40 cm long; flowers small, yellow, many; sepals ovate, short acuminate, 4-5 mm long; petals pale yellow, obovate, slightly shorter than sepals, apex undulate. The capsule does not crack and the petals do not roll up when heated. Seeds nearly reniform.

It grows in dry places such as roadside, hillside and ridge. Distributed in Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet and other places.

[collection] the fruit is harvested when it is hot.

It is pungent and cool.

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and relieving spasm.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-10 pieces.

[prescription selection] ① prevention of cold: Ten wormwood fruits, Guanzhong three money. Take it in water.

② Treatment of children with febrile convulsions: Wolf tail Artemisia fruit three to ten, Fu tea a money. Decoct water, add a little brown sugar, take the supernatant and shaohongzaoxintu, and take it appropriately.

③ Treatment of abdominal distension, abdominal pain: five wormwood fruit. Fried Soup for tea.