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Artemisia annua, also known as sweet wormwood, [2] sweet annie, sweet sagewort, annual mugwort [3] or annual wormwood, is a common type of wormwood native to temperate Asia, but naturalized in many countries including scattered parts of North America. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Artemisinin is extracted from the plant Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), a herb employed in Chinese traditional medicine. A precursor compound can be produced using a genetically engineered yeast, which is much more efficient than using the plant. [4] Artemisinin and its derivatives are all sesquiterpene lactones containing an unusual peroxide ...
Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua, Qing Hao) is believed under TCM to treat fever, headache, dizziness, stopping bleeding, and alternating fever and chills. Sweet wormwood had fallen out of common use under TCM until it was rediscovered in the 1970s when the Chinese Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergency Treatments (340 AD) was found
Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua)Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua) grows in all continents besides Antarctica. [13]It is the only known source of artemisinin, a drug that has been used to treat fevers due to malaria, exhaustion, or many other causes, since ancient times. [14]
Artemisia aleutica Hultén – Aleutian wormwood; Artemisia annua L. – annual wormwood, sweet sagewort, sweet Annie; Artemisia arborescens L. – tree wormwood; Artemisia arbuscula Nutt. – little sagebrush, low Sagebrush, black sage; Artemisia arenaria DC. Artemisia argyi H.Lév. & Vaniot – Chinese mugwort; Artemisia austriaca Jacq.
Artemisia absinthium, otherwise known as common wormwood, is a species of Artemisia native to North Africa and temperate regions of Eurasia, [4] and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States. [5] It is grown as an ornamental plant and is used as an ingredient in the spirit absinthe and some other alcoholic beverages.