Artemisia annua

Artemisia annua
Family:Artemisia annua; Antibacterial; Antiperiodic; Antiseptic; Carminative; Digestive; Febrifuge.
Common name:Qing Hao
Qing Ho better known in the West as sweet wormwood is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. An aromatic anti-bacterial plant recent research has shown that it destroys malarial parasites lowers fevers and checks bleeding. It is often used in the Tropics as an affordable and effective anti-malarial. The leaves are antiperiodic antiseptic digestive febrifuge. An infusion of the leaves is used internally to treat fevers colds diarrhoea etc. Externally the leaves are poulticed onto nose bleeds boils and abscesses. The leaves are harvested in the summer before the plant comes into flower and are dried for later use. The plant contains artemisinin this substance has proved to be a dramatically effective anti-malarial against multi-drug resistant Plasmodium spp. Clinical trials have shown it to be 90% effective and more successful than standard drugs. In a trial of 2000 patients all were cured of the disease. The seeds are used in the treatment of flatulence indigestion and night sweats.

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