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This article is similar with Artemisia absinthium, but more information in use, see Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia absinthium

Wormwood is scientifically known as Artemisia absinthium, which is a bitter and aromatic plant and can be used in many forms, such as getting rid of some serious diseases, defending autoimmunity, making essential oil and preventing devils. In addition to the benefits, wormwood has some limitations, like ban for pregnant and strict content levels. For the pregnant, the function of expediting blood circulation may contribute to abortion whereas, for the typical, relevant departments ought to control the content of food made up of wormwood. However, although it has banned substance and has been asked to sell legally in most countries, it can also be purchased at any level of content on the Internet. Wormwood grows in Europe, northeast and northcentral regions of the United States and most parts of Asia. Some countries consider the wormwood is native to their land, so most of them have their history about the growth.

Background

Artemisia was created through the Greek goddess who was named Artemis. Absinthium means “without sweetness”, which actually tastes bitter and astringent and swallows like harsh medicine. Wormwood was named from the Germany characteristic "wermut" which means "the protector of people's mind" and used to improve intelligence and memory.

In the Botanical Classification, Family, Genus and Species of wormwood respectively belong to Asteraceae, Artemisia and Absinthian. It is a perennial shrub with silvery- green leafy stems and yellow flowers that grow up to approximate 2 meters.

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Artemisia
Species:	A. Absinthian
Binomial name
Artemisia Absinthian

History

Following the earliest recorded legend, wormwood was considered as a symbol of evil in the Bible. In Ancient Egypt and Greece, western people took advantage of Artemisia as a herb which could help accelerate the circulation of blood and increase the birth date. During the Middle age, young men used those plants to express implied admiration and pursuit of a woman. The elderly prefer using Artemisia absinthium to eliminate the injury of tapeworm. For the 16^th century, many Germany and French insisted that the fumes by burning wormwood or putting the wreath on babies’ heads would protect newborns from devils and witchcraft which people believed they would settle a spell and take the lives of babies. The popularity of the use of Artemisia Absinthium has started to develop in the next three hundred years. By the beginning of 20 century, a group of countries determined to set the limitations of the content of wormwood in sales and manufactures, including tea, flavouring agent and beverages.

Meanwhile, from the Warring States Time of ancient China, there was a crowd of people making humanlike models made up of wormwood to memorise the giant – Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival until now.

Natural distribution

Distribution of wormwood in the United States

The wormwood is resourceful and spread widely in the world. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is an introduced perennial and can be found in nine provinces of Canada and up to half of the states in the United States, like Washington, Oregon and California. People planted them primarily due to A.Vulgaris. It has been formed the dense species replacing of other plants. The nitrogenous soils, such as weedy, uncultivated and waste areas, even moist roadsides, is fit for wormwood to germinate.

Use

Medical use

The most therapeutic value of wormwood is that it can satisfy the treatment for various sophisticated diseases like Malaria and Crohn's diseases, even including several types of cancer. There is a brief explanation of recent research that it could eliminate most of breast cancer cells in 16 hours by testing. Cancer cells speed up the cell division by soaking iron. When the levels of iron in the breast cancer cells and normal breast cells were maximised simultaneously, they were then treated by a liquid herbal formula from an extract of wormwood. Under this circumstance, cancer cells absorbing more iron attributes to more attack.

According to the vitro research, the essential oils made up of wormwood possess a vast spectrum of antimicrobial activity which can fight against several bacterial strains and inhibit their further extension. As a result, most of the scientists stated that there is more likely that wormwood can have a better performance against bacteria than oral antibiotics.

Traditionally, wormwood was used to gather felon herb to kill the parasite- intestinal worms. The eggs of the infections are easy to propagate directly, which can cause a series of complications such as nausea and diarrhea. The situations in serious can contribute to shortness of breath, even dying for children and elder. Doctors can make use of felon herb to operate natural remedies to disorganize the life cycles of demons and then thoroughly wipe out them, which cannot attack other useful and beneficial fungus. People can defecate the worms in the stool.^[9]

Due to the function of improvement in circulation, wormwood can help relieve the stomach- ache and promote digestion.

It is also used for ventricular pain, particularly for enteric fever.

Living use

Adults would make use of wormwood near newborns’ beds or inserting wormwood into the door frame to prevent devils from harming. They would also purse women by placing the wormwood near her bed to declare their adoration and commemorate the great achievement of Qu Yuan through building his models.

Material use

An essential edibleness of Artemisia which can be a material of volatile oil. Wormwood contains approximate 1% pleasant- smelling volatile oil that can manufacture Huoxiangzhenqi water.

People made the wormwood wines with Roman wormwood through putting them into juice, which enables them to work up an appetite. The secret of Germans can eat a lot is that they would drink the wine with a meal.

Limitations

Today, there is a constructive criticism about the content of use of wormwood, which proposes to set the minimised level of intake and insists that some countries should make the contribution to limit the purchase with an online channel.

It must not be close to women who are pregnant which is quite essential. The function of activating blood circulation can attribute to dissipate basis. In fact, wormwood are not suggested being used theoretically when women are in menstruation which may lead to shortness of blood supply even though it can aid to regulate the irregular menstruation and menstrual pain.

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