Sweet Wormwood Seed
Fructus Artemisiae Annuae
Qing Hao Zi

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Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cold; pungent; bitter

Part(s) used

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Treatment of fever caused by summer heat, afternoon fever in deficiency of yin or in consumptive diseases, malaria with chills and fever, jaundice.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. artemisinine from its volatile oil is an effective antimalarial agent on mice, monkey, chicken and human malaria. the malarial parasite will disappear in blood after oral administration of 100mg/kg for 3 days in mice and 200mg/kg for2-3 days in monkey. the therapeutic effect of artemisinie is similar to that of chloroquine.2. antipyretic.