Inchcape, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried above-ground part of Artemisia binarum, family Asteraceae.

Harvested in spring when the seedlings are 6-250px high or harvested in fall when the buds grow to the beginning of the flower, remove impurities and old stems, and dry in the sun. Harvested in the spring is known as "Mian yin chen", fall harvested called "flower yin chen".

The acreage of Yin Chen planting is 200 to 300 pounds. According to the query related to public information, the yield of the chennai is affected by a variety of factors, such as climate, soil, fertilizer, experience and so on. The acre yield of Yin Chen is between 200 to 300 pounds, and Yin Chen is harvested between July and August for harvesting.

The Classic of Materia Medica: Yin Chen, its main wind-dampness, cold and heat, the evil heat knot, jaundice, through the body yellow, urinary incontinence and head fever, all dampness and heat in the yangming, taiyin in the disease also. Bitter cold can dry dampness and remove heat, dampness and heat to go, then all the symptoms since subside. In addition to dampness and heat dissipation of the key medicine.

Physiological properties:

1, Mian Yinchen:

More curled into a mass, gray or gray-green, all densely covered with white hairs, soft as velvet. Stem small, long 1.5 ~ 62.5px, diameter 0.1 ~ 5px, remove the surface of the white fuzz can be seen obvious longitudinal lines; brittle, easy to break. Leaves are petiolate; leaf blade is one to three times pinnatifid after spreading, leaf blade is 1～75px long, about 25px wide; lobules are ovate or slightly oblanceolate, bar-shaped, apex acute. The odor is fresh and fragrant, and the taste is slightly bitter.

2, flower Inchcape:

Stem cylindrical, multi-branched, 30 ~ 2500px long, 2 ~ 8mm in diameter; surface mauve or purple, with longitudinal stripes, was pubescent; body light, brittle, fracture class white. Leaves are crowded, or much deciduous; lower leaves two to three times pinnately parted, lobes striped or finely striped, both surfaces densely white pilose.

Stem leaves one to two times pinnatisect, base clasping, lobes finely filiform. Heads ovate, mostly paniculate, 1.2-1.5mm long, 1-1.2mm in diameter, shortly pedicellate. Achenes oblong, yellowish brown. Aromatic, slightly bitter flavor.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Inchidium