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Artemisia white is a species of Artemisia grandis, a plant of the Asteraceae family. It is mainly used to treat swelling, heat, cough, sore throat, jaundice caused by cold and dampness, dysentery, gonorrhea, rheumatic arthralgia, hematemesis, hemoptysis, bleeding from trauma, scabies and malignant ulcers. Artemisia annua is a perennial herb or slightly semi-shrub with a strong fragrance on the main stem. The fruit season is from September to October. Wolf grass is used as medicine, which has the effects of relaxing the meridians, removing dampness, removing cold, promoting blood circulation, reducing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, nourishing the fetus, and resisting allergies.

The difference between Artemisia annua and Artemisia argyi

Artemisia annua is an annual or biennial herb, 50-150cm tall. The main stem is single and narrowly fusiform. The lower part of the stem is slightly woody, with obvious longitudinal ridges and multiple branches. The stem and branches are covered with milky white soft hairs. Leaves symbiotic; leaf stems 1-4cm long; lower and middle leaves broadly ovate or broadly ovate, 4-8cm long, 3-6cm wide, two to three times palmately divided, with 2-3 lobes on each side, lobes often irregularly palmately divided or deeply divided, lobes linear or strip-lanceolate, 2-10mm long, 1-2mm wide, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, with small palmately decomposed pseudobracteria at the tip; upper leaves and bracts pinnately divided or decomposed, oblate-lanceolate or lanceolate, sessile.

Artemisia has a capitate inflorescence, mostly hemispherical or nearly spherical, 3-6mm in diameter, with short stalks, and linear bracts at the tip, arranged in racemes or compound racemes on branches, with 3-4 layers of involucres, the surface, middle and upper layers are covered with grayish-white soft hairs or nearly hairless, the midrib is emerald green, the edges are narrowly membranous, and the inner layers are membranous; the capitate inflorescence is hemispherical, with milky white susceptor hairs; the male flowers are 2(-3) layers, 20-30 in number, with 2-4 lobed teeth on the eaves of the corolla, the style is linear, and the top is forked; the bisexual flowers are double, 80-120 in number, the corolla is tubular, the anthers are pointed above the attachment, long triangular, with a short pointed mouth at the tip, the style is the same length as the corolla, forked at the top, truncated at the fork end, and has eyelashes. Achenes long ring-shaped. Flowering and fruiting period is June to October.

Artemisia annua is a perennial herb or slightly semi-shrubby green plant with a strong fragrance on its main stem. The main stem is obvious, slightly thick and long, with a diameter of up to 1.5 cm, and many main roots; horizontal rhizomes and nutrient branches often appear underground. Stem single or very few, 80-150 (-250) cm high, with obvious longitudinal ridges, dark brown or gray-brown, slightly woody at the tip, herbaceous at the top, and with very few short branches, 3-5 cm long; stems and branches are covered with dark gray spider-like soft hairs.

The inflorescence of Artemisia annua is elliptical, 2.5-3(-3.5)mm in diameter, sessile or nearly sessile, with several to more than 10 inflorescences arranged in small racemes or compound racemes on the branches, and generally forming narrow, spire-shaped panicles on the stems. The inflorescence heads are inclined downward when the flowers wither; the leaves are thick and papery, with short grayish-white soft hairs on the upper side, and with milky white glandular dots and small grooves, and densely covered with grayish-white spider-like dense hairs on the back; the basal leaves have long petioles and wither during the flowering period; the leaves below the stem are nearly annular or broadly ovate, deeply palmately lobed, with 2-3 lobes on each side, the lobes are elliptical or obovate-long elliptical, each lobe has 2-3 small teeth, and the main and lateral veins on the back are mostly dark red or rusty when dry. The leaf stem is 0.5-0.8cm long.