Artemisia annua, also known as Artemisia annua, has the efficacy of clearing and penetrating deficiency heat, cooling the blood and removing steam (eliminating the heat that penetrates from the inside of the bones to the outside of the blood by clearing heat and cooling the blood), clearing summer heat, and intercepting malaria, and can be used for treating yin deficiency and fever, external summer heat and malaria, and other illnesses.
1. Clearing deficiency heat, cooling blood and removing steam: Artemisia annua is bitter and cold in nature, clearing deficiency heat, treating deficiency heat caused by yin deficiency, such as bone steam (heat from the inside to the outside), five heart-quenching heat (heat in the heart of the two hands and two feet, and consciously feeling hot in the heart and chest), and red tongue with little moss, etc., and it is often used in combination with Zhi Mou, Yin Chai Hu and other deficiency-heat clearing traditional Chinese medicines.
2. Clearing summer heat: Artemisia annua is cold in nature, good at clearing summer heat, fever and thirst, often paired with watermelon Cuiyi, Poria and other traditional Chinese medicines.
3. Intercept malaria: Artemisia annua is cold and pungent, entering the liver and gallbladder meridian, good at intercepting malaria, treating malaria cold and heat (the body will be hot and cold). Artemisinin, an extract of Artemisia annua, has significant antimalarial effects.
Artemisia annua is mostly used in decoction soup for internal use, or freshly grated juice. In addition, Artemisia annua bitter cold, spleen and stomach cold (spleen and stomach weak cold) of chronic gastritis, chronic diarrhea is prohibited, low blood pressure patients, infants and young children, the elderly should not be taken for a long time.
Artemisia annua internal use need to be in the Chinese medicine doctor under the guidance of evidence, not self medication, in order to avoid adverse consequences.