Artemisia argyi H.Lév. & Vaniot - Asteraceae - 艾 ai (chin.), Chinese mugwort, **Chinesischer Beifuß**

Perennial herb or subshrub, up to 1.50m tall, native to Eastern Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, Russian Far East); shortly branched apically, gray arachnoid pubescent, strongly aromatic; leaves ovate, triangular-ovate, or subrhombic, abaxially densely gray arachnoid tomentose, adaxially pubescent and white gland-dotted, 1(or 2)-pinnatipartite or -cleft. \\
"Artemisia argyi is used in making important anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, and hemostatic drugs..." \\
[[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200023167]]

"Wormwood leaves are gathered on a warm dry day in spring and summer when the plant is in flower and dried in the shade. In traditional Chinese medicine, they are considered to have bitter, pungent and warm properties and to be associated with the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. The leaves are used as an antiseptic, expectorant, febrifuge and styptic... It is a common flavoring and colorant in the Chinese dish qīng tuán (青团)." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_argyi]]

The hydrodistilled essential oil of A. argyi inflorescences contained 1,8-cineole (4.5%), borneol (3.6%), terpineol (10.2%), spathulenol (10.0%), caryophyllene oxide (6.5%), juniper camphor (8.7%), camphor (3.5%), and chamazulene (2.0%)  as major
components. \\
[Comparison of composition and antifungal activity of Artemisia argyi Levl. et Vant inflorescence essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation and supercritical carbon dioxide., Wenqiang, G., Shufen, L., Ruixiang, Y., Yanfeng, H., Natural product research, 20(11), 2006, 992-998]

|{{:1.8cineole.jpg|1,8-cineole}} \\ 1,8-cineole | {{:borneol.jpg|borneol}} \\ borneol| {{:junipercamphor.jpg|juniper camphor}} \\ juniper camphor | {{:selin11en4ol.jpg|selin-11-en-4α-ol}} \\ selin-11-en-4α-ol | 

[[http://www.thegoodscentscompany.com/data/rw1589571.html|Selin-11-en-4α-ol]] (18.0%, isomer of juniper camphor), 1,8-cineole (14.2%), [[http://www.thegoodscentscompany.com/data/rw1053631.html|artemisia alcohol]] (12.9%), borneol (9.7%), cis-chrysanthenol (4.4%), terpinen-4-ol (4.1%), yomogi alcohol (3.8%) and α-terpineol (3.0%) were the major constituents of the essential oil (hydrodistilled, turquoise, 0.36%) of A.argyi from Far East Russia. Caryophyllene oxide (2.2%), cis-sabinene hydrate (2.0%), β-thujone (1.1%; α-thujone 0.1%), and camphor (1.4%) were minor constituents eg. \\
[Chemical Diversity and Biological Activity of the Volatiles of Five Artemisia Species from Far East Russia., Ozek, G., Suleimen, Y., Tabanca, N., Doudkin, R., Gorovoy, P.G., Goger, F., Baser, K.H.,  Rec. Nat. Prod. 8:3, 2014, 242-261]  

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picture source: Flora of China, Harvard, [[http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=120469&flora_id=2]]