Artemisia rutolifolia
Rutifolia wormwood is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Artemisia rutifolia Steph. ex Spreng. (A. turzaninowiana Bess.).
As for the name of the wormwood family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of wormwood
Wormwood is a subshrub, the height of which will vary between fifteen and eighty centimeters. Such a plant will be endowed with a rather thick, squat and highly branched woody stem. Such a stem will bear numerous and quite heavily leafy branches, which in turn form more or less large turf. The baskets of this plant are hemispherical, their width is three and a half to five millimeters, such baskets are on legs and in a racemose inflorescence. The flowers of Artemisia rutolifolia are pistillate, there are only about five to fifteen of them, and the corolla itself will be narrow-tubular and bare, and it expands towards the very base. The flowers of the disk of this plant will be bisexual, there are about twelve to twenty-eight of them, the corolla itself will be conical, and the achenes will be angular-ribbed and oblong-prismatic.
Artemisia rutolifolia blooms in August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Central Asia, the Altai region of Western Siberia, the Daurian and Angara-Sayan regions of Eastern Siberia. For growth, this plant prefers scree, pebbles, rocks, stony, steppe and stony-gravelly slopes up to the upper mountain belt.
Description of the medicinal properties of wormwood
Wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the herb of this plant, which should be harvested throughout the entire flowering period. The concept of grass includes stems, inflorescences and leaves.
The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of essential oil, flavonoids, organic acids, aromatic compounds, scopoletin and p-hydroxyacetophenone in this plant.
The essential oil of this plant is endowed with very effective fungicidal, antibacterial and anthelmintic effects, and therefore this oil has received a high perfume rating. It should be noted that canin will be endowed with antiprotozoal activity, while chrysosplenin has the ability to exhibit antitumor activity.
As for traditional medicine, here this plant is very widespread. An infusion prepared from the herb wormwood is recommended for use for dysuria. Fresh ground herb of this plant is used as an analgesic for toothache, and dry herb is used for hyperhidrosis. To rinse with a sore throat, you should use a decoction prepared from the herb wormwood. A decoction and infusion based on the herb of this plant is used for various diseases of the heart and stomach.
It should be noted that in veterinary medicine this plant is used as a protistocidal agent for wounds in domestic animals, and is also used for dysuria.
For angina pectoris, take the following remedy: one tablespoon of dry crushed herb wormwood rutolifolia in half a liter of boiling water, infuse this mixture for an hour and filter thoroughly. This remedy is taken three times a day, regardless of food intake, one third of a glass.
