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Aliases Tong artemisia ("Jiayou Materia Medica"), Basil ("Drinking Meal Just Want"), Artemisia annua ("Yunnan Materia Medica"), Basil ("Materia Medica"), Artemisia annua ("Materia Medica"), Artemisia annua ("Materia Medica"), Chrysanthemum Vegetable ("Botanical Name True Tu Kao").
Source:Senjin Food Cure
The source is the stem and leaf of the Asteraceae plant Artemisia annua. Harvestable in winter, spring and early summer.
It is an annual herb in its original form, reaching a height of up to 1 m. The stem is erect, smooth, soft and fleshy. Leaves are alternate; sessile; oval, inverted ovate lanceolate or inverted ovate oval, with irregular deep-toothed or feathered fissures at the edges, lobes oval, blunt at the apex. Cephalic inflorescences are solitary at the end of the branches, about 4 to 6 cm in diameter; total bracts are membranous, bracts are arranged in a tile-like arrangement, ovate to oval; floral hybridity; tongue-like flowers are layered, female, yellow or yellowish-white, tongue fragments are about 16 mm long; tubular flowers are multi-layered, amphoteric, about 5 mm long, 5 stamens, on the corolla, filigree separation, suborder ovary, 2 lobes of the peduncle. The thin fruit is triangular, about 3 mm long, and angular. Flowering occurs in spring.
It is cultivated in most parts of the country in the Habitat Division.
The chemical composition contains serine, aspartic acid, threonine, alanine, glutamine, valine, leucine, proline, tyrosine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, β-butanine, phenylalanine, etc.
Sexual taste spicy, flat.
(1) "Qianjin Food Cure": "Spicy, flat, non-toxic."
(2) "Drinking and Eating": "Sweet, flat, non-toxic."
(3) "Yunnan Materia Medica": "The sex is slightly cold, and the taste is slightly bitter."
It is incorporated into the spleen and stomach meridians.
(1) "To Match the Materia Medica": "Enter the Foot Yang Ming Sutra."
(2) "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Into the heart, spleen, intestines, stomach, kidneys."
Functional indications and spleen and stomach, diffuse stool, phlegm drinking.
(1) "Dry Gold Food Treatment": "Rest assured, nourish the spleen and stomach, and eliminate phlegm and drink."
(2) "Japanese Herb": "Dehydration Valley.""
(3) "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Practice liver qi, cure partial qi pain, and facilitate urination."
(4) "To match the Materia Medica": "It is good for the stomach and intestines, through the blood veins, and removes the odor in the diaphragm."
Dosage for internal use: generally cooked as vegetables.
Note "Materia Medica": "It is forbidden for laxatives."
Each family expounded on the "Benjing Fengyuan": "With the turbidity of artemisia, it can help the fire, and Yu Xiyan eats a lot of food and moves the atmosphere, smokes people's hearts, and makes people full of anger." (Qianjin) words and tranquility, nourishing the spleen and stomach, eliminating phlegm and drinking, and benefiting the stomach and intestines refers to the decline of the vegetarian fire, if the kidney qi is strong, it is not without the plague of fire. "
Excerpt from the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine