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Artemisia annua L.


Botanical Name	:	Artemisia annua L.
English Name	:	Sweet wormwood
Family	:	Asteraceae

General Info

Description

An annual branched herb up to 150 cm tall with ribbed stem. Leaves are bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid, up to 12 cm long, with linear, 0.3-1 mm wide pectinately dentate segments and glabrous. Flowers are bright yellow in colour. Fruit is obovoid, 0.6-1 mm long and glabrous.

Herb Effects

As antiperiodic, antiseptic, digestive and febrifuge (leaves); antimalarial (plant)

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PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Chemistry

Active Ingredients

Arteannuin B, artemisic acid, beta-pinene, beta-selinene, beta-sitosterol, borneol, camphene, caryophyllene oxide, coumarin, delta-cadinene, deoxyartemisinin, menthol, methyl acetate, octacosanol, p-cymene, scopoletin, stigmasterol, terpinen-4-ol (plant); 1,8-Cineole, alpha-pinene, camphor, cuminaldehyde (leaves); artemisinin (flower)

Chemistry of Active Ingredients

Name

CAS#

IUPAC Name

Formula

Structure

Arteannuin B

50906-56-4

Not Available

C₁₅H₂₀O₃

Beta-pinene

23089-32-9

6,6-dimethyl-2-methy
lidene-norpinane

C₁₀H₁₆

Beta-selinene

18423-23-9

4a-methyl-1-methylid
ene-7-prop-1-en-2-yl
-decalin

C₁₅H₂₄

Borneol

10385-78-1

1,7,7-trimethylnorbo
rnan-2-ol

C₁₀H₁₈O

Caryophyllene oxide

32095-03-7

Not Available

C₁₅H₂₄O

delta-Cadinene

Not Available

1,6-dimethyl-4-propa
n-2-yl-2,3,4,4a,7,8-
hexahydronaphthalene

C₁₅H₂₄

Deoxyartemisinin

72826-63-2

Not Available

C₁₅H₂₂O₄

Humulene

6753-98-6

2,6,6,9-tetramethylc
ycloundeca-1,4,8-tri
ene

C₁₅H₂₄

Menthol

2216-51-5

5-methyl-2-propan-2-
yl-cyclohexan-1-ol

C₁₀H₂₀O

Methyl acetate

79-20-9

methyl acetate

C₃H₆O₂

Octacosanol

67905-27-5

Octacosan-1-ol

C₂₈H₅₈O

p-Cymene

Not Available

Dichlororuthenium;
1-methyl-5,6-dihydro
-4H-pyrimidine;
p-cymene

C₁₅H₂₄C_l2N₂Ru

Scopoletin

92-61-5

2-hydroxy-6-methoxy-
chromen-7-one

C₁₀H₈O₄

Stigmasterol

4736-55-4

17-(4-ethyl-1,5-dime
thyl-hex-2-enyl)-10,
13-dimethyl-1,2,4,5,
6,7,8,9,10 ,11,12,1
3,14,15,16,17-hexade
cahydrocyclopenta[a]
phenanthren-3-one

C₂₉H₄₈O

Terpinen-4-ol

Not Available

1-methyl-4-propan-2-
yl-cyclohex-3-en-1-o
l

C₁₀H₁₈O

1,8-Cineole

8024-53-1

2,2,4-trimethyl-3-ox
abicyclo[2.2.2]octan
e

C₁₀H₁₈O

alpha-Pinene

80-56-8

2,7,7-trimethylbicyc
lo[3.1.1]hept-2-ene

C₁₀H₁₆

Camphene

5794-04-7

2,2-dimethyl-3-methy
lidene-norbornane

C₁₀H₁₆

Camphor

8022-77-3

1,7,7-trimethylnorbo
rnan-2-one

C₁₀H₁₆O

Cuminaldehyde

122-03-2

4-propan-2-ylbenzald
ehyde

C₁₀H₁₂O

Artemisinin

91487-93-3

Not Available

C₁₅H₂₂O₅

Artemisic acid

Not Available

2-(4,7-dimethyl-1,2,
3,4,4a,5,6,8a-octahy
dronaphthalen-1-yl)p
rop-2-enoi c acid

C₁₅H₂₂O₂

Pharmacology

Medicinal Use

Used as a cure for malaria, fever and hemorrhages (plant); to treat fevers, colds, diarrhoea etc and externally poulticed onto nose bleeds, boils and abscesses (infusion of leaves); to treat flatulence, dyspepsia, night sweats and tuberculosis (seeds); to treat jaundice and anorexia (plant); to treat boils and skin diseases (plants in the bud stage)

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