Artemisinin Extract

Artemisia annua is derived from the annual leaves of the Asteraceae plant Artemisia annua. Artemisia annua grows in February. The stems are as thick as a finger and soft and fat. The stems and leaves are dark green in color. The leaves are slightly like wormwood, and the face and back are green. The roots are white. Hard; fine yellow flowers bloom in July and August, quite fragrant; firm and big as pockmarks, with fine seeds in the middle. Artemisia annua plant is an annual herb, up to 1.5m tall, with the whole plant being yellow-green and smelly. The stem is upright and cylindrical, with many branches, the surface is yellow-green or brown, has longitudinal ridges, is slightly hard, easy to break, and has a pith in the middle of the cross section; the leaves are alternate, dark green or brown-green, curled and brittle, and the intact ones are open There are three deep pinnate lobes in the back, the lobes and small lobes are oblong or oblong, and the two ridges are covered with short hairs. The aroma is unique and the taste is slightly bitter; the leaves at the base and lower part of the stem wither during the flowering period, the middle leaves are oval, with two or three pinnately deep lobes, the upper part is green, the lower part is lighter in color, and both sides are covered with short micro hairs; the upper leaves are small, Often pinnately cracked. The flower heads are extremely numerous, spherical, 1.5-2mm in diameter, short-stemmed, drooping, involucre-shaped, with 2-3 layers of bracts, hairless, and the florets are all tubular, yellow, with female edges and bisexual central ones, both of which are strong. Achenes are oval, about 0.7mm long, hairless. The flowering period is from July to October, and the fruiting period is from September to November. Artemisia annua has strong adaptability and is distributed in rocky mountains, soil slopes, hills, flatlands, roadsides, and red soil, red-yellow soil, lime soil, etc. in front of and behind houses, and can grow and develop normally.

Artemisinin is a rare peroxy group-containing sesquiterpene lactone isolated and extracted from the Asteraceae plant Artemisia annua L. Artemisinin and its known derivatives, artemether, artesunate, and dihydroartemisinin, are clinically used to treat malaria and are highly effective, fast-acting, and low-toxic. In addition to its antimalarial effect, artemisinin and its derivatives have been found to have excellent immunosuppressive activity over the years in clinical and laboratory applications and research.

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1. Medicine;

2. Health food