Sweet Wormwood Artemisia annua L. (aerial parts)
Clear deficiency heat medicinesCold
Source-based · educational reference
Traditional recorded function
Clear deficiency heat, cool blood, relieve summerheat, stop malaria
1. Used for febrile disease damaging yin, with night fever subsiding by morning. 2. Used for yin deficiency fever. 3. Used for externally contracted summer-heat. 4. Used for malaria.
Nature & taste
BitterPungentCold
Meridians entered
GallbladderLiverKidney
Botanical source
Accepted nameArtemisia annua L.
FamilyAsteraceae
Herbal properties
ColdDispersingDrying
Found in these formulas
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