Mu-hao, a Chinese NMM, is the aerial part of the plant Artemisia japonica Thunb. of the family Asteraceae.

Efficacy, function.

Clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying. Used to treat...

Summer cold, pulmonary tuberculosis with fever, hemoptysis, infantile malnutrition fever, bleeding, bloody stools, menorrhagia, leukorrhea, jaundice hepatitis, erysipelas, snakebite. Dosage and administration.

Internal use: Decoction, 10-15g, double the amount for fresh herbs. External use: Use an appropriate amount, decoct in water for washing; or crush fresh herbs for application. Pay attention to the precautions.

Not for long-term use. Pharmacological effects.

The role of antimicrobial microorganisms. Relevant discussion.

1、《别录》：“主充肌肤，益气，令人暴肥。”2、《纲目》：“擂汁服，治阴肿。”临床应用 相关配伍

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It nourishes the muscles and skin, supplements qi, and causes rapid weight gain in individuals."2. "Outline of the Materia Medica": "Taken by pounding and drinking the juice, it treats edema caused by yin deficiency." Clinical applications and relevant combinations.

1、治夏季感冒头痛，齐头蒿30g。水煎服。（《万县中草药》）2、治肺结核潮热，低热不退，牡蒿、枸杞根各15g。水煎服。（《浙江药用植物志》）3、治痨伤咳血，齐头蒿60g，石枣子30g。炖肉服。（《万县中草药》）4、治妇人血崩，①牡蒿30g，母鸡1只。炖熟后去滓，食鸡肉与汁。（《闽东本草》）②牡蒿、侧柏叶各30g，鲜苎麻根90g。水煎服。（《浙江药用植物志》）5、治白带，齐头蒿叶15g。研末，蒸绿壳鸭蛋服。（《万县中草药》）6、治黄疸型肝炎，牡蒿25-50g。煎水服。（《彝药志》）7、治急性丹加工炮制 采收加工

1. To treat summer cold with headache, use 30g of Artemisia apiacea. Decoct in water and take orally. (From "Herbal Medicine in Wan County")2. To treat fever and low-grade fever in pulmonary tuberculosis, use 15g each of Artemisia argyi and Lycium chinense roots. Decoct in water and take orally. (From "Medicinal Plants in Zhejiang")3. To treat coughing up blood in tuberculosis, use 60g of Artemisia apiacea and 30g of Ziziphus jujuba seeds. Stew with meat and take orally. (From "Herbal Medicine in Wan County")4. For treating menorrhagia in women: a) Use 30g of Artemisia argyi and 1 hen. Stew the hen, remove impurities, and consume the chicken meat with the broth. (From "Minnan Materia Medica") b) Use 30g each of Artemisia argyi and Cinnamomum camphora leaves, and 90g of fresh Boehmeria nivea roots. Decoct in water and take orally. (From "Medicinal Plants in Zhejiang")5. To treat leukorrhea, use 15g of Artemisia apiacea leaves. Grind into powder, steam with a green-shelled duck egg, and consume. (From "Herbal Medicine in Wan County")6. For treating jaundice-type hepatitis, use 25-50g of Artemisia argyi. Decoct in water and take orally. (From "Yi Medicine Records")7. For processing acute Dan herbs, harvest and process them.

The whole plant is harvested in summer and autumn, and can be dried in the sun or used fresh. Medicinal material identification and characteristics.

Medicinal material characteristics: The dried whole herb has a cylindrical stem with a diameter of 0.1-0.3cm, and its surface is black-brown or brown. It is hard in texture, with a fibrous fracture surface that is yellow-white, and a white spongy pith in the center. The remaining leaves are yellow-green to brown-black, mostly fragmented, wrinkled, and brittle. The inflorescence is yellow-green, with several long oval brown seeds visible inside. It has a fragrant smell and a slightly bitter taste. Botanical information: Plant species.

Artemisia, a plant in the Asteraceae family. Morphological characteristics.

Mugwort, also known as "Wei" in the Book of Songs. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, 50-150cm tall. It has stout rhizomes, often with several nutrient branches. The stem is erect, often clustered, with spreading and erect branches in the upper part, covered with fine soft hairs or nearly hairless. The lower leaves are inversely ovate or broadly spatulate, withered during the flowering period, 3-8cm long, 1-2.5cm wide, gradually narrowing towards the base, with linear false stipules at the base, teeth or shallowly lobed in the upper part; the middle leaves are spatulate, 2.5-4.5cm long, 0.5-2cm wide, with 3-5 shallow lobes or deep lobes at the upper end, each lobe with 2-3 small serrations or none, nearly hairless or covered with fine soft hairs; the upper leaves are nearly linear, three-lobed or unlobed; bract leaves are long elliptic or lanceolate, unlobed at the apex or occasionally shallowly lobed. The capitulum is mostly spherical or nearly spherical, arranged in compound corymbs at the ends of branches, with short peduncles and linear bracts; the involucre is spherical or oblong, 1-2mm in diameter, hairless; the involucral bracts are 3-4 layers, somewhat fleshy on the back, with wide membranous margins; there are 3-8 pistillate flowers, fertile; and 5-10 staminate flowers in the inner layer, infertile. The achene is small, inversely ovate, and hairless. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to October. Habitat.

Distributed in Liaoning (southern and eastern parts), Hebei (southern part), Shanxi (southern and eastern parts), Shaanxi (southern part), Gansu (southern part), Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and southern Tibet; except for the southwestern provinces which are distributed from low altitudes to areas up to 3,300 meters above sea level, the rest are distributed in middle to low altitude areas, growing in moist, semi-moist, or semi-arid environments, commonly found at forest edges, clearings in forests, sparse forests, open fields, thickets, hills, mountain slopes, roadsides, etc. Also found in Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, northern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Kashmir region, northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, and the Soviet Union (Far East region). It grows at forest edges, under forests, in open fields, on mountain slopes, hills, roadsides, and under thickets. Widely distributed in various regions of China.