| Family Name | Asteraceae |
| Scientific name | Artemisia princeps |
| Common name | mugwort, medical grass, moxibustion grass, artemisia argyi |
| Growth habit | Perennial herbs, height of 45 to 120 cm. |
| Leaf | Leaves with a short handle, leaves ovate-elliptic, above dark green, dilute with soft white hair, and dense glandular dots, gray-green below, densely with gray hair. |
| Flower | Collections made by the majority of capitulum. Involucres bracts 4-5 layers, outer layer smaller, Ovate-lanceolate, middle is bigger than inner, wide oval, margin membranous, densely woolly, flowering from July to October. |
| Fruit | Gender pollinated, about 2mm, purple-brown. achenes oval, glabrous. From September to October, harvest fruit ripening. |
| More to learn | Take the blade to set on a stone mortars, pound into a velvet-like, cylindrical paper roll into thick strips, and it is moxa. It is mainly used of moxibustion agent |
| Properties | Bitter in taste, warm. A small toxin. |
| Treats | For lower abdomen pain, menstruation does not adjust, uterine infertility, hematemesis, nvxue, Uterine bleeding by more menstruation, gestational, external treatment of skin itching. |
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