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[[File:Artemisia-annua.jpg|thumb|Alt=|350px|left|Artemisia Annua]]Other names Names: Sweet Annie, Absinthe Sauvage, Ajenjo Silvestre, Annual Mugwort, Annual Wormwood, Armoise Amère, Armoise Annuelle, Artémise, Artemisia annua, Artemisia, Artemisinin, Chinese Wormwood, Ching-hao, Herba Artemisiae Annuae, Herbe aux Cent Goûts, Huang Hua Guo, Qing Hao, Qinghaosu, Sourcil de Lune, Sweet Wormwood.<br>Sweet Annie is an herb. The parts that grow above the ground are used to make medicine.<br>See also : * [[Artemisia absinthium]]* [[Artemisia vulgaris]]* [[Capillary Wormwood]]* [[Artemisinin]]* [[Bitters]]==Special Precautions of Artemisiaannua====The benefits of * Don't confuse with [[Wormseed]] and not to be confused with [[Artemisia are==vulgaris]] (common Wormwood or Artemisia species are rich absinthium)* Sweet Annie seems safe for most adults when taken by mouth. The tea of sweet Annie might cause upset stomach and vomiting. It might also cause an allergic reaction in volatile oil, triterpenes, flavonoids, tannins some people including a rash and coumarincough. Due *There has been one report of liver damage in a person who took doses of sweet Annie that were too large. But liver damage has not been reported in people taking typical doses.*Not enough is known about the safety of applying sweet Annie directly to their beneficial action, the plant is associated with tonic, cardiac, nervine, vasodilatory, diuretic, antiseptic skin.*Pregnancy and antibreast-fungal propertiesfeeding: Sweet Annie is LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth during pregnancy. AlsoAnimal studies show that drugs made in the laboratory from artemisinin, scientists extracted an active a chemicalfound in sweet Annie, that they called artemisin, which has shown anti-malarial actions and thus have can cause death of the potential to work as malaria remedyfetus or birth defects when used early in the pregnancy. In addition, plant's activity stimulates The safety of using sweet Annie during the production last 6 months of pregnancy is not known. Nevertheless, the bile World Health Organization considers drugs made in the liverlaboratory from artemisinin acceptable to use during the last six months of pregnancy, if no other malaria treatment is available.*Historically and up untill now the plant have been used for a variety The safety of digestive tract disordersusing sweet Annie during breast-feeding is not known. Soothing Stay on the inflammation of intestinal tissues, herbal extracts relieve diarrhea safe side and constipation, decrease stomach pain avoid use.*Allergy to ragweed and cramping, and aid digestion by boosting the supply of nutrients related plants: Sweet Annie may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the cellsAsteraceae/Compositae family. Artemisia bitter generally improves digestion Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and stimulates appetitemany others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking sweet Annie.*Herbal preparations ==The benefits of the plant Artemisia annua are considered ==Sweet Annie contains a chemical called artemisinin that seems to be effective against the liver tonic as wellparasites that cause malaria. They stimulate its cleansing by enhancing Some drug manufacturers make anti-malarial medications from artemisinin that they have modified in the draining of waste products with laboratory.Sweet Annie should not be used alone for malaria since it may only inactivate the help parasites that cause malaria, not actually kill them. The amount of artemisinin in sweet Annie might be too small to kill all the improved bile secretionparasites that cause malaria, but large enough to make these parasites resistant to further treatment with more powerful malaria drugs that also contain artemisinin. Artemisia is often used Many researchers are investigating new ways to increase the amount of artemisinin in jaundice sweet Annie.* [[Yin Chen Hao]] and hepatitis treatmentQing Hao are bitter and cold and have a light, fragrant smell.*Anti-bacterial properties of Artemisia Both are applied commonly used for transforming Damp-Heat, eliminating Exterior Damp-Heat and treating symptoms such conditions as parasitic heaviness of the head, body and bladder infectionslimbs, without damaging intestinal floraa sense of constriction in the chest, nausea, loss of appetite, distension in the abdomen and intermittent fever and chills. It is especially effective against threadworn These symptoms are often seen in sunstroke, summer cold infections, influenza, acute enteritis and ringwormdysentery.*Being helpful in severe cases Both of them can clear Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gall Bladder and relieve jaundice in hepatitis or malaria, artemisin is also effective against the river blindness in which Damp- debilitating disease spread Heat accumulates in some regions the Middle Jiao and disturbs the secretion of Africa. It kills organisms causing this condition and fights its symptomsbile.*Both in Eastern These two herbs can also reduce low-grade fever and Western medicine Artemisia is are used for the reproductive system Interior disorders. It decreases the bleeding in a prolonged menstrual cycle, warms but the womb to enhance fertility, functions and soothes menstrual painapplications are different.*Nervine properties of mugwort help Malaria. Taking sweet Annie tea for 4-7 days might improve symptoms and decrease the patients number of active parasites in people with epileptic attacks, tension, and anxietymalaria. Its mild narcotic effects can stop hysteria and shakingThe tea should not be boiled, as well as enhance a good sleep in case of sleep disordersbecause heat will destroy the chemical that seems to fight malaria. Its appetite-stimulating action There is beneficial for some concern that if sweet Annie tea is used alone instead of in combination with usual malaria treatments it might only inactivate the patients malaria parasites, not actually kill them.*AIDS-related infections : People with depression who refuse AIDS sometimes use sweet Annie to take mealsprevent an often fatal type of lung infection called pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) that is caused by a fungus.*Applied topically, mugworts alleviates bruisesAnorexia.*Arthritis.*Bacterial infections.*Fungal infections.*Bruises.* Cancer : See [[Artemisinin]]. In studies involving leukemia, itchingbreast, carbuncles bowel and felonsprostate cancer cells, the scientists say the compound was both effective at killing the cancer while preserving the non-cancerous cells. If your legs and feet Moreover some cancer treatments -- for example, those that are swollen and tired, or affected by gout and rheumatismused to treat leukemia -- can result in an excess of yeast, while some doctors feel that excess yeast can even be a bath with Artemisia extract will relieve the symptoms cause of these conditionscancer. Wormwood has properties that are directly anti-cancerous.*Since Common cold.*Constipation.*Diarrhea.*Fever.*Gallbladder disorders.*Upset stomach.*Yellowing of the plants skin (jaundice).*Night sweats.*Painful menstruation.*Psoriasis.*Scabies.*Sprains.*Tuberculosis : Artemisinin is capable of Artemisia genus are quite toxicblocking a defensive mechanism used by the TB-causing bacterium, an experienced herbalist should be consulted as for dosage before using it for any kind of treatmentsMycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).==Used in Patent Medicine==*[[Zong Gan Ling]]