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Flowering stems (green/yellow flowers) Photograph by: Mountain Partnership at FAO

General Use:

3.1 CLEARING AWAY INTERNAL HEAT

A decoction of artemisia sieversiana is helpful in clearing heat, cooling blood and promoting diuresis.

3.2 JAUNDICE

Prescribed with other herbs, artemisia sieversiana can help to treat jaundice.

3.3 PAIN RELIEVING

A decoction of artemisia sieversiana can be taken to ease and relieve joint pain.

3.4 SKIN HEALTH

Medicated wine with artemisia sieversiana and rice is taken orally to treat malignant sores.

3.5 ANTIDIARRHEAL

Smashed artemisia sieversiana is taken with rice soup on an empty stomach to treat acute bacillary dysentery.

3.6 DETOXICANT

Prescribed with other herbs, artemisia sieversiana can help to purify globefish poison.

Therapeutic Uses:

The leaves and flowering stems are anthelmintic, deobstruent, emmenagogue, febrifuge and tonic. Externally, they are used as an antiseptic and discutient.

Systemic Use:

A decoction of the plant, combined with Ajuga lupulina and Ephedra gerardiana, is used as a wash to relieve painful joints. A paste of the roots is applied to boils

Administration:

One report says that the plant is edible but does not say what part of the plant.

Pharmacological:

The essential oils from the plant are used in anti-inflammatory and haemostatic medicines

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