2, the difference between Artemisia and wormwood:

(1) growth and development of the difference

Mugwort and Penny from the family in terms of all the green plants of Asteraceae, is a collateral association, but their names are not the same, Mugwort alias Aigrette, alias Xiaomao, Bingtai, curb grass, incense Ai, etc., often grow and develop at low altitude to medium altitude in the region of barren mountains, roadside streams and hill slopes, etc., and can also see it in the prairie. and hill slopes, etc., can also be seen in the prairie, while the green Penny alias Artemisia vulgaris, the key growth and development at low altitude, wet riverbanks on the sand, canyons, forest margins, roadside, etc., but there are some coastal areas, Ai Ye Cao and the green Penny of the growth and development of the place is not a big difference, and therefore can not be completely based on this to carry out the distinction.

(2) Leaf stem difference

The appearance of mugwort and Penny is also quite a big difference, from the main stem of the height and width ratio, Penny to be shorter, its main pole is more thin, the leaf stem is dark red, the maximum is 10 centimeters up and down, and the mugwort can be grown and developed to 80-250 centimeters, it is more and more thick and long main pole, the leaf stem is light green, it is easy for each, in addition to its leaf blade difference is also many, the leaf stem is light green, it is easy for each, and it is also easy for each. Leaf differences are also many, Penny's leaves are smaller, elongated, with a jagged edge textured leaves also have a layer of milky white velvet, soft and polished, while the leaves of the ailanthus is wide and fat, the leaf surface is light green, in the back of the leaf has a milky white velvet, which is a big difference between them.

(3) taste difference

Because of the usual Chinese herbs often appear, we are more aware of the mugwort, for its taste is also more master, so according to the taste can be very easy to each of them, mugwort will release a unique flavor, in our daily life, we often use moxa stickers or dry moxa is that kind of taste, and the taste of the green Penny a general grassy green taste, in addition to the taste of the grass. General grass green flavor, in addition mixed with a shallow odor, so according to smell the average temperature can also identify them.

(4) the role of difference

Mugwort fragrant, bitter dry pungent dispersal, can rationalize the blood, warm meridians and collaterals, expel dampness and cold, stopping cold and pain, for gynecological medicine, and the green penny when the medicine has a clearing of heat and detoxification, dispersal of blood, retreating from the steam, summer heat, expelling the wind, elimination of itchy, stopping night sweating, preventing heat stroke and so on, it is the yin deficiency of damp and heat of the lowering of the burning agent.