Artemisia tenuifolia

Artemisia tenuifolia

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] Ranunculus arundinacea, shiermei (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), yunmaocao, red leek (Guangxi medicine plant list).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Artemisia tenuiflora.

[plant morphology] Artemisia tenuiflora

Perennial herbs. The roots are massive, elongated and fleshy. Leaves stemmed or clustered at the base of stem, linear lanceolate, 15-30 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, parallel veins. Stem 30-60 cm long, leafy, internodes long, bald; panicle dispersed; bracts falling off; sepals 3, oblong lanceolate; petals 3, ovoid, purple blue; stamens 2, filaments hairy, staminodes 3, bald. Capsule subglobose, ca. 6 mm in diam. Seeds brown with indistinct wrinkles. The flowering period is late spring and early summer. The fruit period is from October to November.

Born in the stream, grass slope. Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn.

[functions and indications] list of medicinal plants in Guangxi: "cool blood and stop bleeding. Treatment of fever, infantile convulsion. "