Chicken ginseng

Chicken ginseng

(selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

[synonym] Artemisia annua.

[source] it is the root of chicken ginseng, a plant of Bignoniaceae.

[plant morphology] chicken ginseng

Perennial herbs, 25-30 cm high. Taproot thick, fleshy, cylindrical, yellow. Basal leaves elliptic, 8-9 cm long, 6-7 cm wide, apex obtuse, base cordate, dark green above, white green below, with long stalks. The Corolla is 6-7 cm in diameter, 5 lobes and 6 cm in length. Capsule with many seeds.

It grows in grassland, shrubbery or open forest. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and other places.

[collection] in autumn; fresh or dried.

Sweet and light, warm.

[function indications] nourishing and strengthening. Treatment of postpartum hypogalactia, long illness, weakness, dizziness, anemia.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.