Wild mugwort is a plant of the genus Artemisia in the Asteraceae family, and is also known as Bingtai, mugwort, mugwort, etc. Common varieties include raw wormwood, aged wormwood, and green wormwood, which are mainly distributed in Mongolia, North Korea, the Soviet Union and other countries. It is cultivated in Japan and is currently widely cultivated in China.

Wild wormwood looks like

Wild wormwood is green. Its stems are solitary, slightly woody at the base, and the leaves are covered with gray-white pubescence. When blooming, there are flower heads, oval, and sessile. The corolla is narrow and tubular, the style is slender, the anthers are narrow and linear, and the shape is long triangle. Its achenes are oval or rectangular.

Morphological characteristics

: Wild mugwort leaves are papery, the leaves at the lower part of the stem are nearly round, pinnately deeply lobed, and have lobes on both sides. The lobes are oval-shaped, and the back side of dry mugwort is mostly dark brown or rust-colored.

What do roots look like?

: The main root of wild mugwort is obvious, slightly thick and long, about 1.5 cm thick. It has many lateral roots, usually located in underground rhizomes.

Sentences to describe wild mugwort

1, Materia Medica records: Mugwort is bitter and warm in nature, suitable for nourishing the spleen, liver and kidneys, mugwort stems. In addition to making decoctions to cure diseases, traditional Chinese medicine often uses twisted mugwort leaves fixed on the ends of needles as an auxiliary treatment after lighting. 2. It is convenient for the mother to collect a large amount of mugwort in the wild at noon, dry it and crush it, and sew some exquisite mugwort pillows for her daughter. My daughter has been using them today and has been lucky enough to avoid the asthma and coughs that children are prone to in spring and autumn!

Appreciation of wild mugwort pictures