This plant comes from China. Have fine hair and sharp smell, like the soil is quite moist and rich humus. Wormwood type grown in the garden as a medicinal plant is Artemisia argyi Levl.
These plants include shrubs for years, half-woody, branching many, grooved and hairy, grow upright, height is 1 m. Wormwood leaf single, egg-shaped with edge sharing resemble fingers, tapered tip, smooth-haired second surface, the surface color of green, whitish green underneath, sitting turns, 8-12 cm long, 6-8 cm wide. Compound interest in a stump, small, light yellow color, arranged in a series of bent-shaped panicles grow, out of the armpit and the tip of the leaf stalks. Fruit boxes, needle shape, small, brown. Seeds small, brown.
Wormwood is one of the herbs are efficacious for the treatment of disease in women. Often cooked with lean meat as a vegetable. Propagation by cuttings or seed.
Wormwood leaves taste bitter, spicy, warm, aromatic smell, enter the kidney meridian, lung and spleen. Efficacious warms the meridians, relieves cold, pain relievers (analgesics), stop bleeding (hemostatis), shed the urine (diuretic), flatus bullets, bullets of sweat, increased appetite (stomakik), astringent, tonic, stimulant, blood circulation and relieving clotting, prevent miscarriage, and normalize menstruation.
The leaves of this plant contain essential oils (phellandrene, cadinene, alpha-thujone), alpha-Amyrin, fernenol, dihydromatricaria esters, cineole, 1-alpha-terpineol, beta-kariophilene, 1-quebrachitol, and tannins. Roots and stems contain inulin (which contains artemose). While the small branches containing oxytocin, Yomogi alcohol, and ridentin. Parts used for the treatment of leaves, seeds, and roots. Use fresh or dried.
Leaves of this plant are efficacious overcome menstrual disorders, such as: menstrual blood is too much (hipermenore), painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), irregular menstruation comes, do not come menstruation (amenorrhea); disorders of pregnancy, such as bleeding arise during pregnancy, fetal movement is too active , ease childbirth, difficult to have children
keramperut after childbirth, epilepsy, whitish (leukorea); dysentery, flatulence, heartburn, bleeding, eg vomiting blood (hematemesis), blood cough hemoptysis), nosebleed (epistaxis), bleeding hemorrhoids, bleeding after childbirth, bleeding wound; cough with phlegm, sore throat, too much use of opiates, beri-beri, and hemorrhoids.
While the nutritious seeds overcome: impotence and nutritious roots overcome epilepsy (epilepsy). Flowering herb that merit Remedy: heartburn and increase appetite.
How to Use
10-30 g of fresh leaves (50-10 g dry) boiled in 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup. After a cold, drink boiled water all at once or divided into 2-3 parts which were gone in one day.
Fresh leaves are washed and added vinegar until wet, then roasted (fried without oil) to black. Then the material is ground into black powder. Use, whenever the powder was taken as much as 3-6 g, then boiled or brewed and drunk. Finely ground fresh leaves are also used for external use, for example in bloody wounds, boils, ulcers and insect repellent. A number of new leaves are boiled China can also be used for bath or compress a stiff neck (tortikolis).
External use is used as moksa (dried leaves, then rolled up like a cigar). Its use, moksa burned until the end lights up like a cigar, and then used to heat specific acupuncture points such as the stomach pain, no appetite, loss less, muscle paralysis, difficulty breathing, chronic swelling of the liver and spleen, spinal disease, skrofula, pleuritis, rheumatism , eczema, and itching (pruritus).
