What does wild wormwood look like (shape characteristics and)

Plant characteristics of Artemisia argyi

Wild mugwort is a plant belonging to Compositae and Artemisia, with aliases of Yingtai, mugwort and mugwort leaf. The common varieties are raw mugwort, aged mugwort, cooked mugwort and green mugwort, which are mainly distributed in Mongolia, Korea, the Soviet Union and other countries. They are cultivated in Japan and are widely cultivated in China at present.

Wild absinthe looks like

Wild wormwood is green, the stem is solitary, the base is slightly lignified, and the leaves are gray and white. When flowering, the head is oval, sessile, the corolla is narrow and tubular, the style is slender, the anthers are narrow and linear, and the achenes are oblong or rectangular.

Morphological characteristics: the leaves of wild Artemisia argyi are papery, the lower leaves of the stem are nearly round, pinnately parted, and there are lobes on both sides, which are oval. After drying, the back is mostly dark brown or rusty.

What does the root look like: the main root of wild wormwood is obvious, slightly thick and long, almost 1.5 cm thick. It has many lateral roots and usually has rhizomes underground.

Sentences describing wild wormwood

1, "Materia Medica" records: wormwood tastes bitter and warm, and it is appropriate to tonify spleen, liver and kidney and wormwood stems. In addition to being able to boil into decoction to get rid of diseases, Chinese medicine often uses twisted Artemisia argyi leaves to fix the needle tip during acupuncture and moxibustion, and then it is ignited as an auxiliary treatment.

2. It is convenient for my mother to collect a large number of wormwood in the wild at three or four in the afternoon, dry it and crush it. She sewed some exquisite mugwort pillows for her daughter. Nowadays, her daughter always uses them as pillows, so her daughter is always lucky to avoid asthma and cough that children are prone to in spring and autumn!

Picture appreciation of wild wormwood