Botanical Name: Artemisia annua
Common Name: Sweet wormwood
Source of Earliest Record: Shennong Bencao Jing
Part Used : The entire plant is gathered in summer or
autumn, dried in the shade and cut into pieces.
Properties & Taste: Bitter, pungent and cold
Meridians: Liver, gall bladder and kidney
Functions:
1. To reduce heat caused by deficient yin;
2. To cool blood and release summer heat;
3.
To relieve malaria
Indications :
1. Malaria.
2. Late stage of febrile disease, with pathogenic heat damaging yin and body
fluids, manifested as fever, fever at night, and subsiding in the morning
without presence of sweating, red tongue proper with scanty coating and
thready, rapid pulse.
3. Heat signs due to deficient yin manifested as afternoon fever and night
sweating.
4. Invasion by summer-heat manifested as fever, dizziness and headache.
Dosage: 3-10 g
Cautions & Contraindications: This herb should not be boiled for a long
time.
30 fresh seeds $3.50