* [[Artemisia absinthium]]
* [[Artemisia vulgaris]]
* [[Capillary Wormwood]]
* [[Artemisinin]]
* [[Bitters]]
==The benefits of Artemisia annua are==
Sweet Annie contains a chemical called artemisinin that seems to be effective against the parasites that cause malaria. Some drug manufacturers make anti-malarial medications from artemisinin that they have modified in the laboratory.Sweet Annie should not be used alone for malaria since it may only inactivate the parasites that cause malaria, not actually kill them. The amount of artemisinin in sweet Annie might be too small to kill all the parasites that cause malaria, but large enough to make these parasites resistant to further treatment with more powerful malaria drugs that also contain artemisinin.Many researchers are investigating new ways to increase the amount of artemisinin in sweet Annie.
* [[Yin Chen Hao]] and Qing Hao are bitter and cold and have a light, fragrant smell.
* Both are commonly used for transforming Damp-Heat, eliminating Exterior Damp-Heat and treating symptoms such as heaviness of the head, body and limbs, a sense of constriction in the chest, nausea, loss of appetite, distension in the abdomen and intermittent fever and chills. These symptoms are often seen in sunstroke, summer cold infections, influenza, acute enteritis and dysentery.
* Both of them can clear Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gall Bladder and relieve jaundice in hepatitis or malaria, in which Damp-Heat accumulates in the Middle Jiao and disturbs the secretion of bile.
* These two herbs can also reduce low-grade fever and are used for Interior disorders, but the functions and applications are different.
* Malaria. Taking sweet Annie tea for 4-7 days might improve symptoms and decrease the number of active parasites in people with malaria. The tea should not be boiled, because heat will destroy the chemical that seems to fight malaria. There is some concern that if sweet Annie tea is used alone instead of in combination with usual malaria treatments it might only inactivate the malaria parasites, not actually kill them.
*AIDS-related infections : People with AIDS sometimes use sweet Annie to prevent an often fatal type of lung infection called pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) that is caused by a fungus.
*Sprains.
*Tuberculosis : Artemisinin is capable of blocking a defensive mechanism used by the TB-causing bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).
==Used in Patent Medicine==
*[[Zong Gan Ling]]
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