The effects of Artemisia annua are interception of malaria, relief of summer heat, cooling the blood and removing steam (eliminating heat from the bones to the outside by cooling the blood), clearing and penetrating the deficiency heat, mainly used in the treatment of malaria cold and heat, fever and thirst, summer fever, labor heat and bone vapor, yin deficiency and heat, night heat and early coolness, and warmth and evil injury to the yin.
Artemisia annua is cold in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, and belongs to the gallbladder and liver meridians. Its effects are to stop malaria, relieve summer heat, cool the blood and remove steam, and clear and penetrate the deficiency heat, and it is mainly used for the treatment of malaria with cold and heat, fever and thirst, summer-heat externality, labor-heat and bone vapor (the self-consciousness of the heart of the hands, feet, and the chest of the anterior heart is burning hot as if the heat is penetrating outward from the bones), fever of yin deficiency, fever at night and early coolness, and the injury of yin by the evils of warmth.
Need to pay attention to the spleen and stomach deficiency cold (spleen and stomach weakness cold) chronic diarrhea, chronic gastritis, and cardiac insufficiency and other heart disease patients are prohibited to take Artemisia. The elderly, young children, and patients with low blood pressure should not take Artemisia annua for a long period of time.
If you need to use traditional Chinese medicine, you need to be guided by a doctor under the guidance of evidence, not to be taken on their own, so as not to cause adverse consequences.