Artemisia vulgaris

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Title

Artemisia vulgaris

Subject

Taxonomy
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae
Genus : Artemisia
Species : Artemisia vulgaris

Synonyms
Absinthium spicatum (Wulfen ex Jacq.) Baumg, Artemisia affinis Hassk, Artemisia apetala hort.pest. ex Steud, Artemisia cannabifolia H.Lév.

Common name
Cina baru, Hiya, Midge Plant, Moxa,Felon-herb, mugwort, wormwood

Description

Characteristics
A perennial herb with creeping underground stolons and fibrous roots.

Morphology

Leaves
Stipulate at the base, lower to middle leaves with blade elliptic in outline, measure 5-11 cm x 3-7.5 cm, pinnately lobed or divided into 2-4 pairs of segments. These toothed or deeply incised or rarely entire, upper side deep green, underside silvery whitish hairy with upper leaves becoming smaller, usually 3-parted or lobed and lobes entire.

Stems
Usually measure about 30-60 cm tall, tufted from the stolon and branched are often whitish and hairy.

Inflorescence
A terminal panicle of crowded racemes, the heads ca. 0.25 cm long and the florets are brownish.

Fruits
Minute achenes.

Medicinal compound
1-α-terpineol, β-caryophylene, 1-quebrachitol, inulin, oxytocin, yomogi alcohol, ridentin, artemose 1,8-cineole, 3-β-hydroxyurs-12-en-27,28-dionic-acid, 5,3′-dihydroxy-3,7,4’trimethoxyflavone, 7,8-methylenedioxy-9-methoxycoumarin, adenine, α-amyrin, α-amyrin-acetate, α-cadinol, α-pinene, α-thujone, arsenic, artemisiketone, ascorbic-acid, barium, β-cadinol, β-carotene, β-pinene, β-sitosterol, borneol, bromine, cadinene, cadinenol, calcium, cineol, choline, chromium, cis-dehydromatricaria-ester, copper, dihydromatricaria ester, fernenol, gamma-cadinol, heptadeca-1,7,9-triene-11,13,15-triyne, inulin, iodine, iron, lead, linalool, linalyl-acetate, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, muurolol, myrcene, nerol, neryl-acetate, niacin, nickel, paraffin, phellandrene, phosphorus, potassium, protein, quebrachitol, quercetin-3′-glucoside, quercetin-3-rhamnoglucoside, riboflavin, rubidium, spathulenol, stigmasterol, strontium, sulfur, tauremisin, tetracosanol, tetradec-6-en-8,10,12-triyne-1-one, tetradeca-4,6-diene-8,10,12-triyne-1-ol, tetradeca-6-ene-8,10,12-triyne-3-one, thiamin, titanium, thujone, trans-dehydromatricaria-ester, trideca-1,3,5-triene-7,9,11-triyne, vulgarin, vulgarol and vulgarole.

Plant part used
Root, leaves, flowers and seeds.

Traditional uses
The leaves of A. vulgaris is used as a menstrual regulator and the Chinese stir fry them with eggs as a remedy for dysmenorrhoea.
The leaves are also used to ally perimenopausal symptoms.
In western herbal medicine a decoction of the fresh tops in a bath is believed to help correct female irregularities.
The native Americans made use of the plant to relieve after-pains of childbirth.
It is emmenagogue actions is recognized both in the east and west making it an essential ingredient in pre and postpartum period.
In Norwegian folklore medicine a sprig of the plant is given to strengthen uterine contractions.
Buddhist monks burns the leaves onto the faces of 3-day old infants in the belief that this ensures their survival through infancy.
The Chinese considered it a haemostatic and antiseptic, thus it is used to treat bleeding or infected wounds.
The leaves are beneficial in a number of skin disorders including eczema, herpes, purulent scabies and measles. In these cases either poultice or the juice of the leaves are applied locally.
For inflamed and infected wounds the pounded leaves mixed with ginger are wrapped in banana leaves and heated over fire and applied over the lesion.
The leaf poultice is also used to treat headache and rheumatism.

Medicinal uses

In Indonesia the leaves have a wider used in women to include disturbances in menstruation such as hypermenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, irregular uterine bleeding and amenorrhoea, early bleeding of pregnancy, to calm down hyperactive foetus, to ease delivery and for fertility.
It is also used to treat leucorrhoea. A. vulgaris is used in moxibustion treatments at acupuncture points and this is used in the gastrointestinal treatment like abdominal cramps, constipation, diarrhea and vomiting.
The leaves have stomachic, carminative and tonic properties.
In Indonesia, the flowering plant is used to improve appetite and to treat abdominal colic especially the griping pains of indigestion.

List of country
North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Creator

Artemisia vulgaris(Linnaeus,1753)

Source

Publisher

Nur Athirah Roshaizi

Contributor

Nur Athirah Roshaizi

Language

English

Collection

Kingdom Plantae

Citation

Artemisia vulgaris(Linnaeus,1753), “Artemisia vulgaris,” BIDARA, accessed February 4, 2026, https://bidara.uthm.edu.my/items/show/437.