This is wild wormwood, alias: wild wormwood, shade ground artemisia, small-leafed wormwood, narrow-leafed wormwood, mugwort, bitter wormwood, Chenmai, perennial herb. Stem erect, the upper part of the inflorescence with oblique ascending branches, covered with dense short hairs. Lower leaves long-stalked, heads, elliptic or oblong, inflorescences raised; corolla narrowly tubular, purplish-red, styles linear, bisexual flowers, anthers linear, flowering and fruiting August-October.

Mostly born in low or middle elevation areas, such as roadsides, forest margins, slopes, grasslands, valleys, thickets and rivers and lakeside meadows.

Wild Artemisia has the function of regulating qi and blood, removing cold and regulating menstruation, stabilizing the fetus, dispelling wind and removing dampness, reducing swelling and stopping bleeding. Can cure colds, headaches, malaria, skin itching, carbuncle, bruises, trauma bleeding and other diseases. Therefore, in the summer season, you may wish to raise a pot of wild red, whenever the mosquito bites, itchy time, you can pick one or two pieces of wild red leaves, rubbed compresses on the bites, instant itching and pain suddenly disappeared. If the hands and feet due to inadvertence and lead to trauma bleeding, you can also pick one or two pieces of mugwort leaves, rubbed softly on the wound, you can achieve the efficacy of bleeding.